Four men in Changsha, China, spent the last day of 2012 wearing nothing but underwear in 23 degree Fahrenheit iceboxes as part of a 24-hour "ice room challenge." China's CCTV News reports that three of the four competitors lasted until the end, wi...

Nearly 500 monitoring stations in 70 of China's largest metropolitan areas are now sending out real-time reports on air pollution levels. According to state-run CCTV News, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and the dangerous PM 2.5 are among the pollutants th...

The Washington-based International Monetary Fund reports that personal savings in China have reached 50 percent of incomes, more than twice the world's average. State-run CCTV News reports on what young people in particular are saving up for.

South Korea's health care system is in crisis. Broadcaster MBC has prepared a three-part series on the problems in the country's health care system, focusing on doctors changing specialties, declining public health, and the fight between doctors a...

It's been a year since North Korea's Kim Jong-il died, pushing his inexperienced 28-year-old son onto center stage. To assess Kim Jong-un's first year, LinkAsia speaks with Philip Yun, COO of the anti-nuke group Ploughshares Fund and a former Stat...

What is life like for normal North Koreans? Few Westerners have ever had the experiences that former Ambassador John Everard had in the Hermit Kingdom. LinkAsia speaks with Everard, British ambassador to Pyongyang from 2006 and 2009, about his new...

Vietnam's economy has boomed for the past decade, reaching the World Bank's "middle income" status. Increasing wealth means access to more of life's little luxuries, like pets. According to Vietnamese broadcaster VTV4, pets are becoming a status s...

Compared to the non-stop coverage Chinese media gave to the Sandy Hook massacre, last week's shocking stabbing rampage at a Henan province elementary school got little attention. In addition, no high-level officials have addressed it. The lack of ...

Next Media, one of Taiwan's most popular news organizations, is owned by well-known China critic Jimmy Lai. But now, a group of Taiwanese tycoons with ties to China are trying to buy him out. LinkAsia contributor Cindy Sui reports from Taipei on w...

Sunlight and education are the keys to a long life, according to the world's oldest person. Kyoto's Jiroemon Kimura, 115, became the oldest when Dina Manfredini of Iowa died earlier this month. He's learning English to keep his mind sharp as he en...