Peanuts and other nuts are among the most prevalent and dangerous causes of allergies in Australia, leading to the highest lifetime risk of anaphylaxis. Now, researchers believe there's something in the Asian environment that helps protect children from the condition, with Australian children up to three times more likely to suffer from nut allergies. The reason could be that Asian children were exposed to different diets, bacteria and UV.

At least 87 deaths have been reported from a cold wave over the last week that’s brought dangerously chilly temperatures and wintry precipitation to tropical and subtropical latitudes of Southeast Asia, as well as brutally frigid readings further north.

The South Korean island of Jeju sees its biggest snowfall in three decades, causing flights to be cancelled, while temperatures in Hong Kong drop to a 59-year low.

“At this rate, we would expect nearly one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish in our oceans by 2025."

(New York) – The Bangladeshi government should halt the imminent executions of two men convicted of war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately suspend the death sentences of Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mujahid of the Jamaat-e-Islam Party and Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury of the Bangladesh National Party pending an independent and impartial review of their cases.

There are plenty of reasons the trek up Mount Everest is grueling and unpleasant: the low oxygen levels, the bitter cold, the dangerous terrain. Add one ...

A 5.1 magnitude tremor is detected in North Korea, close to a site previously used to conduct nuclear tests.

David Palumbo-Liu interviews Amitav Ghosh.

We know we can't go back. There was never an Eden—an “authentic” pastoral past that, if we could just rediscover, would save us from our increasingly real alienation. This is why indie is dead. As Ezra Konig put it, “People would rather have genuine fakes than fake genuines.”

Some 22 buildings collapse in a landslide at an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Vietnam's military is steeling itself for conflict with China as it accelerates a decade-long modernization drive, Hanoi's biggest arms buildup since the height of the Vietnam War.

The scholar of nationalism and author of ‘Imagined Communities’ has died at the age of 79. By Jeet Heer.

Could a 5,000 kyat banknote signed by Myanmar’s former dictator, current president and Aung San Suu Kyi, contain clues about who lead the country next, and how? By Jonah Fisher.

If the district polls are any indication, both Beijing loyalists and pan-democrats cannot make significant headway against other side. By Gary Cheung, Emily Tsang and Stuart Lau.

From its hilltops to the tropics, Asia’s go-to drug is now methamphetamine. Far more than a party drug, meth is sought by factory hands and office drones alike. Millions seek out its high suited to a region powered by frantic labor. But a GlobalPost investigation into Asia’s billion-dollar meth underground reveals that this drug isn’t just produced by mere gangsters. Many of the meth trade’s key players are, in fact, armed groups overseen by Myanmar’s military.

Born out of frugality, Hainanese chicken rice – one of Singapore’s national dishes – may seem simple. But it’s the kind of dish you’d cross continents to eat.

Created by humans, these fires just keep on burning due to underground stores of peat.

Clinton points to Burma as a prime example of her foreign policy leadership. But how far has the country really come? By Samantha Michaels.

The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as Ch’ang Cheng—the “Long March”—the retreat lasted 368 days and covered 6,000 miles, nearly twice the distance from New York to San Francisco.

“LIKE trying to fit a square handle into a round hole” is how Sejong the Great, a Korean king, viewed the practice of using hanja, classical Chinese characters, to transcribe Korean. Hanja recorded meaning alone, not sound, and only aristocrats knew it. So the king and his literary circle crafted an alphabet from scratch and started promoting it in 1446.