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  • Mr Yusaku Maezawa with a miniature rocket and space helmet prior to the start of a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo last Tuesday.

Fly me to the moon, says Japanese billionaire

Mr Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and chief executive of Japanese e-commerce giant Zozo, wants to take with him six to eight international artists on the six-day odyssey, hailing from fields such as music, dance, film, painting, photography and fashion design.
  • Mr Denny Tamaki, the son of a US Marine father and an Okinawan waitress mother, has vowed to build up Okinawa's local industries in areas such as tourism, agriculture and logistics to raise incomes.

Japan's first biracial governor wants US troops out of Okinawa

Dying of cancer, but Indonesia's disaster spokesman battles to tell world about quake-tsunami

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  • Mr Arun Dhaddha (at right) and his brother Suresh. They discovered their father's collection only five years after his death when they began clearing out the basement of the family home.

Away from Jaipur's forts and fussiness, a hidden gem

The Gyan Museum, which opened at the end of 2016, is probably India's first private museum, as distinct from private art galleries of which there are many. Visits are by appointment only, but admission is free.

Singaporean calls it quits, shuts e-bike factory as policies evolve in China

After nearly 20 years of operating a small factory in the outskirts of Shanghai producing electric bicycles, a Singaporean businessman has decided to call it quits.
  • Left: An aerial view of Port Dickson, with hotels lining the more than 20km of beachfront (top left). It was a weekend draw for the middle class in its heyday. Mr Mohd Nazari Mokhtar, 57, is the Parti Islam SeMalaysia candidate for the Port Dickson b

By-election heightens interest in beach town

Saturday's by-election has put the beach town in spotlight.
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