As the famous setting of countless Kung Fu movies, the original Shaolin Temple of China was brought back from ...

At her funeral, her grieving parents draped her coffin with the garment, which, as was customary, was donated to the temple along ... day when the wind died down and the fire diminished simply because ...

Worshipers burn incense at Wong Tai Sin Temple to welcome ... one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. Throngs of people in down jackets filled a Beijing park for a “temple fair” on a sunny but chilly ...

Osaka has been one of Japan’s thriving centers of culture and trade. Its strategic location between the calm harbors of Osaka ...

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and the world.

Returning to Khuzhir in a UAZ, switching to a Korean-made bus, and traveling about 40 minutes along the Angara River leads to ...

The reason that there are no skeletons at the wreck of the Titanic is basically because once the flesh of their bodies was ...

Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made over ...

At the end of the 16th century, the country was pacified by Lord Nobunaga, who disciplined the samurai and put an end to the ...

Efforts have begun to enlist the world-renowned tri-religious site, Halesi, in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Halesi, a ...