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South India is full of surprises. Thoothukudi, for instance, might not look extraordinary at first glance. But it seems this land has stories hidden deep beneath the soil, waiting patiently to be uncovered. Panaiyur village, near Tharuvaikulam, recently became the talk of archaeologists. Marine fossils and seashells were uncovered while…

Landslide buries a facility in West Java preparing troops for border patrol

Professional rock climber became the first person to free solo the Taipei skyscraper

Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan rush to detect and prevent spread of Nipah virus from travellers

US climber takes an hour and half to scale one of Asia’s tallest buildings without ropes or a harness

The Andaman Coast has one of the largest concentration of dugong in the world, so why are numbers falling dramatically and what can they tell us about a biodiversity warning cry

Pretty You London's bamboo bedding hit the spot for me.

The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone

A young Indian man died mysteriously, a young couple lost a 300,000-baht diamond engagement ring and there was an attempted break-in at a woman DJ’s hotel room - all during the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival music festival in Phuket.

Noticing how out of place we looked, she asked in English if she could help us

Food and wine writer Douglas Blyde falls in love with Singapore, one bite at a time