SINGAPORE: Sea-sickness, weather changes and rough seas are just some of the challenges faced by the Uniquely Singapore crew during their Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

SINGAPORE: Sea—sickness, weather changes and rough seas are just some of the challenges faced by the Uniquely Singapore crew during their Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

SINGAPORE: Sea—sickness, weather changes and rough seas are just some of the challenges faced by the Uniquely Singapore crew during their Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

More people need to be actively involve in changing our world politically, socially, and environmentally.  As we began 2008 we all should focus on improving it in a positive way instead of fixating on what is wrong with it.  The biggest problem is… we concentrate entirely too much on the obstacles instead of working together to overcome [...]

HANOI (Thomson Financial) - Vietnam strongly criticised Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian’s weekend visit to the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, in a statement reported by state-run med…

This is the first book of Pamuk’s to be translated into English, which started to bring this extraordinary Turkish writer to international attention.

It’s a very strange book, which I started several times before I got a handle on what was going on, and then I couldn’t put it down. A Venetian scholar is captured by Turkish sailors while returning to his home. He is imprisoned, but through his

How does that phrase go? “Yesterday’s revolutionary is tomorrow’s freedom fighter”? Or is it, “Yesterday’s ally is tomorrow’s enemy”? Maybe it’s the other way around. I can never get this right.

Here are hot picks for overseas adventures in 2008: ARGENTINA: Turn winter on its head with a summer visit in February (the seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere). Or ski in August. Argentina is the most “European” of the South American countries. Check out Bariloche, a winter resort town that’s a little slice of Switzerland.

BANGKOK, Thailand — A beer that takes some of the guilt out of drinking, a system to stop would-be car bombers and, yes, even a better mousetrap, are on display as inventors from around the globe gat…

HANOI — Vietnamese Catholics have ended more than a month of protests in Hanoi aimed at pressing the Communist government for the return of church land seized 50 years ago. After talks between church…