Metro station brings music to Shanghai’s ears

It could be a jazz piano solo, a classical sonata or traditional Chinese bamboo flute music. Whatever your taste, free concerts in the grand hall of People’s Square metro station in Shanghai have been offering a diverse range of ...

Online campaigns get head start in Japan

Next month’s Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election has become a virtual run-up for online election campaigning, which will become legal from this summer’s House of Councillors election.The official campaign period for the Tokyo e...

‘Lipstick effect’ hits China as economy slows

Fang Jinqi, 32, said the most urgent thing for her at the moment is to develop a more thrifty lifestyle because her job as a property agent business is stagnating.The big fan of Hermes bags who used to buy a new one almost every t...

Majority reject Japan mayor on comfort women: poll

A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity, polls issued Monday said.Up to 200,000 "comfort women" from Korea, Chi...