Vasant Bhatt, a 20-year-old political science major at the University of Houston, enrolled in a course called the Lived Hindu Religion expecting "nuanced discussion" and "space for the lived faith ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle ... tools from the Longtan archaeological site in southwest China. Our colleague Bo Li at the University ...

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Its civilization dates back thousands of years and has influenced and been influenced by neighboring Asian cultures, including China, Persia, and Southeast Asia. Religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, ...

Beijing was sending "a signal that China has a sophisticated military," said Peter Layton of Australia's Griffith Asia Institute. "The bombers' second message could be you (the United States ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday (Mar 27) hailed the planned construction of a mosque in Kuala Lumpur - named after his government's “Malaysia Madani” slogan ...

In some countries, changing religions is very rare. In India, Israel, Nigeria and Thailand, 95% or more of adults say they still belong to the religious group in which they were raised. But across ...

President Bola Tinubu has signed the South-West and South-South Development Commission bills into law. The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, made the announcement ...

The presentation lays the blame directly at the feet of the West for luring Central Asia out of Moscow’s dominion with a carrot-and-stick approach. And the report argues that Russia’s ambition should ...

Vietnam is stepping up inspections of particular children’s toys over concerns that imagery on the model’s face resembles a map China uses to stake competing territorial claims in the South ...

The Omani Olympic national team has qualified for the final of the Under-23 West Asia Championship after a deserved victory over the Bahrain national team, winning 2-0 in a semifinal match at the Seeb ...

A new map has revealed the most common religion in every African country, showing a clear divide between Christianity and Islam across the world’s second largest continent. The map, shared on ...