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Authorities scrap Arakurayama Sengen park cherry blossom festival near Mount Fuji because of tourists trespassing, littering and ‘defecating in private yards’

The Indian government is fast moving ahead with the Rs 92,000 crore International Container Transshipment Port project in Andaman and Nicobar’s Galathea Bay. But little heed is being paid to the indigenous communities that have lived in the islands for generations, nor are the environmental concerns adequately addressed, experts tell…

Thailand, Nepal and Taiwan rush to detect and prevent spread of Nipah virus from travellers

US climber takes an hour and half to scale one of Asia’s tallest buildings without ropes or a harness

The Andaman Coast has one of the largest concentration of dugong in the world, so why are numbers falling dramatically and what can they tell us about a biodiversity warning cry

Pretty You London's bamboo bedding hit the spot for me.

The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone

A young Indian man died mysteriously, a young couple lost a 300,000-baht diamond engagement ring and there was an attempted break-in at a woman DJ’s hotel room - all during the three-day Electric Daisy Carnival music festival in Phuket.

Noticing how out of place we looked, she asked in English if she could help us