TOKYO - TWO sushi bar owners paid more than US$100,000 (S$145,000) for a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction on Monday, about ten times the average price and the highest in nearly a decade, market officials said.
ISLAMABAD - THE elder daughter of Pakistan's assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has written a rap song expressing her anguish over her mother's death.
HONG KONG - ONE in five Hong Kong residents is considering leaving the city because of its dire air quality, a survey released on Monday has found, raising fears over the financial hub's competitiveness.
The findings equate to 1.4 million residents thinking about moving away, including 500,000 who are 'seriously considering or already planning to move', according to the survey by the think tank Civic Exchange.
SEOUL - TIGHTER border controls slashed the growth rate of North Korean defectors arriving in the South by more than half last year, even though the number of defectors rose to a new record.
