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The Flight of Dreams exhibition hall next to Nagoya's Chubu Centrair Airport pays homage to aviation giant Boeing's roots in Seattle - replete with a Starbucks outlet and other American-style diners - and is home to the first Boeing 787 aircraft that

Nagoya shedding image as nation's 'most boring' city

Nov 19, 2019, 5:00 am

Manila rail lines' trolley boys

Sep 3, 2019, 5:00 am

Great Wall restoration goes back to basics

Jul 30, 2019, 5:00 am
Left: At this facility on Made Island, Kyaukphyu, Rakhine state, oil tankers unload their shipments, which are pumped across pipelines that cross upper Myanmar into China. From left: A single-carriage train travelling slowly along tracks in Rakhine s

Troubled Rakhine state woos foreign investment

Feb 18, 2019, 5:00 am

Philippine's crown jewel resort island Boracay is reborn, but not all are glad

Feb 5, 2019, 5:00 am

Bubbling over: The globalisation of a tea craze

Jan 1, 2019, 5:00 am
A private tanker spraying water on a road being built in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka. There is bitterness in the Indian state over the perceived unfairness of how water is distributed. Residents in the Indian capital New Delhi filling their c

India's water woes: Pollution, poor management worsen disparities in water supply

Nov 27, 2018, 5:00 am

All-out courtship in Taiwan's mega 'nine-in-one' elections

Nov 20, 2018, 5:00 am

In typhoon's wake, Philippine farming town prays for relief

Oct 30, 2018, 5:00 am
THEN AND NOW (from left): •An aerial view of Shibuya Crossing in the early 1950s, when the Hibari-go cable car was in operation. The crossing has become the symbol of Tokyo. It is said that over 500,000 people cross it each day. •Street c

Japan at a crossroads, marks 150 years since the Meiji era

Oct 23, 2018, 5:00 am