A landmark new exhibition in South Korea revisits ancient East Asian Buddhist art from Korea, China and Japan through the lens of gender, highlighting the influence women have had throughout history.

According to one culture official, the New Cathedral of Coimbra, in Portugal, served as the model for Macau’s Church of St Paul – of which only the facade remains, following a fire in 1835.

Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown has been transformed into a buzzing neighbourhood full of new restaurants, shops and bars that manages to retain its heritage. Here’s what to eat, drink and do there.

The US president last week raised the possibility that his uncle, whose plane was shot down over New Guinea in May 1944, might have been eaten by cannibals.

Patriotic education will help Hongkongers understand nation’s history, culture, achievements and governance, says Starry Lee.

Denmark’s old stock exchange, a protected 400-year-old building located next to the country’s parliament, caught fire on Tuesday, leading police to shut down parts of the inner city.

Blending feminine silhouettes and menswear tailoring, the collection is a nod to Dietrich as ‘the bridge’ between Paris and New York, creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri tells Style

The Moti Mahal and Daryaganj restaurant chains have taken each other to court in New Delhi for the right to be recognised as the famous dish’s inventor.

In collaboration with the French National Library, Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is hosting an exhibition of 280 powerful black-and-white photos, its first show dedicated to the medium.

A new book published by Hong Kong’s Blacksmith Books features images of Chongqing shot by war correspondent Melville Jacoby that paint a picture of life in China’s temporary capital on the Yangtze.

In this age of Google Earth and GPS, people still buy globes – they help us ‘find our place in the cosmos’, one maker says, adding that countries can be very sensitive about their territory’s depiction.

Fatou was born in the wild and has lived at the Berlin Zoo since 1959.

A teenaged British army wife went on hunger strike in Singapore in 1962 in protest at the housing provided for the family. A move to Hong Kong, and a flat in Chungking Mansions, delighted her.

The 2,000-year-old paintings inspired by the Trojan War were found during excavations at the Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, which was submerged by volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79.

Venice is commemorating famous traveller and merchant Marco Polo, 700 years after his death. An exhibition in the Doge’s Palace has 300 artefacts, including books, maps and manuscripts.

Moscow’s ‘carrot-and-stick’ tactic with Tokyo over the peace agreement goes back decades, analysts say, after a Kremlin spokesman dredged up the Cold War-era strategy in an effort to drive a wedge between the US and Japan.

The veteran aerospace engineer was described as a ‘hidden dragon’ at an awards ceremony hosted by the state broadcaster CCTV

Authorities say abuse of monkeys at the Angkor Unesco World Heritage site is a growing problem as people look for new ways to draw online viewers to generate cash.

Veteran photojournalist had 40,000 rolls of film to his name, capturing major events such as the 1967 riots, Bruce Lee’s funeral and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to the city.

Their ancestors once called Singapore’s outlying islands home, but many in the Orang Laut community have since lost touch with their roots. A non-profit heritage group is seeking to change that.

The Democratic Party’s Kim Jun-hyeok claims Ewha Womans University’s first president helped send ‘comfort women’ to Japan and forced students to provide sexual favours to US soldiers.

The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines in 1941 bombing by Japan in Hawaii that launched US into World War II. The battleship’s dead account for nearly half of those killed in the attack.

A guided cycling tour through Intramuros, the oldest surviving part of Manila, in the Philippines, takes riders through courtyards and gardens, and to a site connected with the city’s darkest times.

Ukraine-born Andrei Iwanowitsch is among the last survivors of the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp. After forced labour, a death march, and a ‘narrow’ life in Soviet Belarus, at 98 he’s seeing the world .