TOKYO - THERE are many theories on the links between food and sex, but Japanese researchers have came up with a new finding - young people who skip breakfast tend to lose their virginity earlier.
In a study of 3,000 people, those who did not regularly eat breakfast when in their early teens said they lost their virginity at an average age of 17.5, versus an overall average of age 19 for all Japanese.
TOKYO - A NEW Internet shopping mall is opening in China next month that will take payments in the widely used China UnionPay cards for Japanese products, company officials said on Friday.
The electronic shopping site 'Buy-J.com' will sell gadgets, clothing and cosmetics from about 100 Japanese companies, aiming 4 billion yen (S$63 million) in sales in the first year, said Ryuichi Kobayashi, spokesman for Sumitomo Mitsui Card a credit card company that tied up with China UnionPay.
BANGKOK - INDONESIA'S coral reefs damaged by the 2004 tsunami are recovering rapidly, helped by natural colonization and a drop in illegal fishing, scientists said on Friday.
Surveys taken after the Dec 26, 2004 disaster showed up to a third of reefs were damaged and experts predicted it would take a decade for full recovery.
