MANILA—As 2014 ushers, speculations arose that celebrity couple John Prats and Isabel Oli will be tying the knot this year. This, after Prats shared a photo...
TOKYO—Hundreds of people fell sick across Japan after eating frozen food that may have been tainted with a pesticide. Food maker Maruha Nichiro Holdings used full-page...
Life on these Philippine islands. Most of us who are honest enough will admit that there is a lot with which we “put up”. Far too...
TORONTO—Infectious disease watchers were worried in the late summer of 2013. The largest annual mass gathering in the world, the Hajj, was approaching. Meanwhile, infections with...
LAS VEGAS—Samsung, the world’s largest maker of TVs, is tackling the problem of getting ultra-high-definition content to its new TV sets by teaming up with the...
HONG KONG—Run Run Shaw built a Hong Kong movie and TV empire that nurtured rising talents like actor Chow Yun-fat and director John Woo, inspired Hollywood...
TORONTO—BlackBerry (TSX:BB) is suing Typo Products, a company co-founded by TV personality Ryan Seacrest, saying that its new iPhone case rips off the famous BlackBerry keyboard....
NEW YORK—Jim Norton will join James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in the Broadway revival of “Of Mice and Men.” Producers said Monday that Norton, whose recent...
TORONTO—Flu season has swung into full gear in many parts of the country, sowing illness, absenteeism and in some places alarm. Reports of deaths of adults...
TOKYO – The typical visitor to Tokyo envisions a futuristic city of skyscraper canyons and electronic gadgets, but in the eastern part of the city, an...