Two giant cavities about a half-mile apart in the rock face mark the sites where two huge sixth-century statues of the Buddha ... and the country's sole female provincial leader.

Yingluck served as Thailand’s first female prime minister from 2011 to 2014. An in-law also served briefly in 2008.

In the light of day, you can see the small statue reduced to shards, and the hands severed from the larger figure, which represents the female version of Buddha. "This is what we call 'Guanyin ...

Solo travel is having a moment. For me—a backpacker at heart, with a penchant for arty, boutique hotels—that moment began around 20 years ago when I embarked on my first solo sojourn to Central ...

PM Modi is slated to meet Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who is Thailand's youngest PM. Widely known by her nickname 'Ung Ing', Shinawatra is the youngest daughter of former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

The baby was born in the aftermath of Myanmar's earthquake and given to the flames of Buddhist funeral rites two days later, too young to have been named.

Whether it’s transiting at Narita International Airport or jumping from one magical world to the next at Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea, most people heading to Chiba Prefecture are on their way ...

The tolerance levels of Sri Lankans don’t run deep. The populace here in the island have some association with at least one ...

"I needed to maintain a critical distance and understand Ensign Wang as the product of a particular time and place, so as to ...

"We are all living in hardship," wept Khin Myo Swe as an ambulance worker gently cradled the little body before a Buddha statue decorated ... bringing a 16-year-old female quake victim.

Nivath shows me the bas-relief of the apsara “heavenly dancers” expertly carved into the colossal bricks of sandstone, before taking me to the Buddha statue, shaded under ... Read more: The ...