The statue is 34 metres (112 feet) tall and was inaugurated in 1993, 24 years after the adjacent Po Lin Monastery unveiled plans to erect a symbol of peace and religious freedom in Hong Kong. While ...

Rennie heads to Thailand to rediscover a love of off-road riding and of the Southeast Asian culture with Thailand Moto Tours.

Closing with a combined $154,418,490 across three auction houses, the Hong Kong marquee auctions confirmed an Asian market ...

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.

Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour will be lit up with images of temples, flower boards, dancing lions and bun towers this weekend as part of the celebrations for Buddha’s Birthday and the Cheung ...

For centuries, Hong Kong has welcomed visitors, helping to transform its islands and peninsula from sleepy farming and fishing villages to one of the most-important financial centres and ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire ... Korea -- but the Buddha and the wooden hall it was in survived.

CATL gets CSRC’s nod for Hong Kong IPO to raise at least US$5 billion CATL plans to sell up to 220.17 million shares and could raise at least US$5 billion to fund new factories overseas.

A statue of the late comedian Victoria Wood has been reinstalled after it was hit and damaged by a taxi last year. The full-size bronze figure of the Bafta award-winning performer, erected in her ...

Hong Kong has plenty of cultural experiences to discover, and the city’s finest museums are a great starting point. Whether you’re looking for historical artefacts and contemporary art ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero ... 67 years to go on public display in July. It is a gilded wooden statue about four meters tall and believed to have ...