With its estimated US$1.6 trillion in cross-border payments, the APAC region is poised to benefit significantly from the surge in cross-border money movement. As remitters, banks, fintechs, and other ...

BHOJPUR – On a recent morning, Anita Rai made her way down the steep hill from Kattike Bisauni Chowk, in Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality of Bhojpur district ... have lived off traditional agriculture.

For the 9,000 or so households in Tanjung Uma, a coastal village on the northern edge of Batam, this scene is as desperate as it is bleakly routine. Once a tranquil fishing community, Tanjung Uma ...

Now spin around and look north. Bam! But how to describe it? It’s like some sort of ‘skyscraper village’ has popped up. An oxymoron, yes, but isn’t it like when you’ve been driving on a ...

Taiwanese actor Barbie Hsu, who rose to fame across East Asia as the romantic lead in the 2001 television drama Meteor Garden, has died of influenza aged 48, her sister said on Monday. Familiar by the ...

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After three decades of service for Norfolk Constabulary, Supt Jim Smerdon retired to the village of Garvestone for a quiet life. With a church, no shops and a few hundred houses, the small farming ...

A County Durham village has been branded a "picture perfect" location that "embodies the charm of rural England" by visitors. With its historic church, traditional stone cottages, and welcoming ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Every February 2nd in the small Spanish village of Almonacid del Marquesado, local residents celebrate the ...