During his trip to Asia in November, Barack Obama seemed strangely mute. Unlike Bill Clinton, who criticized China's human rights record in front of then-president Jiang Zemin, Obama largely avoided the topic of rights.

Lawyer convinced Saudi sex journalist will go free, even after Appeals Court upholds his sentence.

State-linked Dubai entities have started talks to divest Asian assets as the emirate steps up the pace of its overseas asset sales to help ease its debt -burden.

Hong Kongs top court will rule Feb. 11 on Nancy Kissels appeal in the murder of her Merrill Lynch & Co. banker husband.

Dubai The media sector in the Arab region is expected to fare much better than the rest of the world in the coming years as the global economy tries to recover from the financial crisis, the authors of the Arab Media Outlook revealed yesterday.

The small exhibit of contemporary portrait photography now showing at the Johnson Museum, In Your Face , contains a bewildering array of attitudes that strike and strike out many views toward sex and gender, reflecting and redefining the different and sometimes overlapping waves of feminism and queer theory that have evolved over the past four decades.

Monday should have been a good day for the Prime Minster. It almost was. Malcolm Turnbull was excoriating his own party's fiscal recklessness. Tony Abbott was in Queanbeyan, alienating yet more women as he pretended to iron a shirt. And the ridiculousness of a week in which a loon-eyed Barnaby Joyce and a skirt-wearing Joe Hockey all but destroyed the Opposition's economic credentials was still ...

I never asked to be The New York Press go-to-guy for reviewing quirky porno on DVD. But here we are. Mind you, Im not really complaining.

BUSINESSMAN Datuk Muhamad Mustaffa Idrus, accused of having slept with more than 10 women during his three-year marriage to ex-wife Mastura Bakar, has denied that he is ''like Tiger Woods''.

The UAE investors continued actively trading in foreign exchange (forex) currency markets in 2009 even as worldwide volumes took a hit, said a senior executive of a Swiss-based online foreign currency broker.

Matchmaking services connecting North Korean women and South Korean men are helping ease the transition to a new life for some defectors

09 February 2010 DUBAI - Cityscape management announced on Monday that 2010 would be the ninth consecutive year that a Cityscape event will be held in Dubai, but under a new name -- Cityscape Global -- to acknowledge its place as a significant international platform for the real estate industry.

08 February 2010 DOHA: The Qatar Petrochemical Company Qatar Petrochemical Company ( Qapco Qapco ) and Norwegian shipping company Norgas have signed a Contract Of Affreightment (COA) for the transportation of ethylene from Mesaieed to various international destinations in the year 2010.

Companies disposing of non-core assets will increase merger and acquisition activity in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) in 2010, according to Mergermarket.

An abstinence-only study that allowed students to explore the drawbacks of having sex at early as age 12 has attracted praise from some Texas educators.

Singapore - The global financial crisis started in the most-developed economies, but the impact has been felt by millions of people in some of the poorest regions of the world. In South-East Asia,...

10 February 2010 DUBAI -- Malaysian International Shipping Corporation (MISC), the world's third largest shipping company, opened its Middle East regional office in Dubai on Monday, and said the move was to position itself as a leading logistics provider for the GCC's $43-billion Halal food industry.

Mohindar Dhillon is an elegantly spoken man, as befits his 30 years of promoting classical Indian music in Australia.

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the most important risk factor of liver cirrhosis in HBV endemic areas. A research group in China performed a large epidemiological study to investigate the association of HBV genotypes with the development of probable cirrhosis in community-based population. They found that HBV genotype C was independently associated with probable cirrhosis in the ...

The Qtel Group Qtel Group has concluded a major framework agreement (FA) with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to support its long-term development strategy across international markets.

Aaron Cohen first met Jonty Thern and her older sister, Channy, in 2005 while singing in a karaoke bar in Battambang, Cambodia. He has come back to see them every year since.

The high-profile sodomy trial of Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader, has been temporarily halted after his lawyers moved to have the presiding judge disqualified.

MISC's wholly-owned subsidiary MISC Agencies has entered into an agreement with Al Hilal Shipping Agency to set up a joint venture (JV) company in Dubai.

The journey back to high school for Anousack Vongphachanh began in Southeast Asia and might never have been, if not for a career-changing decision in college.

In the meantime, his party is beset by infighting in several state assemblies, particularly Penang and Selangor, with a growing number of restive lawmakers threatening to leave the opposition coalition and return to the Barisan.

If youve ever wondered where world-renowned, James Beard Award winning chefs go for grub in their downtime, youre in luck. The same culinary geniuses that have topped endless Best Of lists, graced the covers of Food & Wine and Bon Appetit and helped put Houston on the culinary map are now making it their mission to show residents and visitors the underbelly of the citys foodie scene.

(2008, Spain) Peris Romano and Rodrigo Sorogoyens romantic comedy starring Fernando Tejero, Jose Luis Garcia Perez and Belen Lopez. Dom Kino. Avatar (2009, U.S.) James Camerons sci-fi thriller starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver.

Appeals Court ratifies summary court's verdict against man charged with immoral conduct.

Lung cancer is often dramatically different in women than it is in men, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday in another study that suggests ways to tailor treatment for cancer patients.