Japan-Nth Korea game given green light
Japan’s opening World Cup qualifier against North Korea will go ahead as planned on Friday after initial fears it would need to be put back a day due to an approaching typhoon.
Ek Sonn Chan pipes something precious into the homes of Phnom Penh: safe water
Ek Sonn Chan, the general director of the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, offers visitors to his office cool water in a crystal glass, covered by a silver lid in the shape of a Cambodian crown.
Japan face N. Korea test in World Cup qualifiers
SINGAPORE (AFP) – Injury-hit Japan face an immediate test of their World Cup credentials against North Korea Friday as Asia’s top teams join the long road to the 2014 tournament in Brazil.
Cambodia’s activist monk fights on despite threats
His saffron robe a rare beacon among protesters, Cambodia’s most outspoken monk has been banned from temples and risked arrest for challenging rights abuses — but he vows not to be silenced.
Tokyo Countdown: The Japanese Game Challenge
#paginationTop, #paginationBot, .ui-page-list ul {display:none;} Tokyo Game Show — the biggest video game expo in Japan — glitters on the horizon, and our excitement levels rise by the day. Before IGN sends its editors across the ocean to cover this massive gaming event, we want to challeng…
Japan braced for stormy encounter with North Korea
Asian champions Japan are bracing themselves for a tricky examination from North Korea in a politically charged 2014 World Cup qualifier on Friday set to be played in typhoon conditions.
Japan’s Furukawa to be named economics minister: media
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Motohisa Furukawa, a former finance ministry bureaucrat, will become economics minister in new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s cabinet, Jiji news agency said, taking over the task of tackling the many ills plaguing the world’s third-biggest economy.
“Land grabs” mar Cambodia’s boom, rattle investors
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Kong Song’s farmland was his family’s livelihood for three decades until the bulldozers moved in and tore down his home in rural Cambodia to make way for a multimillion dollar foreign-led business.
