Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers ...

In Little Saigon, enmity for the Vietnamese government thrives among the older generation, many of whom arrived in the U.S.

Here’s how to explore the best of Japan’s capital, from summer festivals and less-visited neighborhoods to day trips to World ...

With festivals taking place throughout the year in Tokyo, you have a good chance that your trip will coincide with a ...

The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

Modis visit to Wat Pho Temple in Thailand and later to the Mahabodhi Temple at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka are additional ...

Nara, Japan's first capital, is famous for Nara Park, where tame deer roam freely. Todai-ji Temple also houses one of the largest Buddha statues in the world. This city offers a fascinating insight ...

It also calls on the Secretary of the Interior to restore public monuments, statues and other markers that have been removed or changed since 2020. But it's unclear how many sites — and which ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

Wildfires in South Korea are now "the largest on record" having burned more forest than any previous blaze, the country's disaster chief said Thursday, as the death toll rose to 26. More than a ...

The extent of damage makes the fires collectively the third largest in South Korea's history ... saying that a giant gilded Buddha statue was too large to move so had been carefully covered.