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With gaming growth in Macau and hopes for Japan later this year, gamblers and investors alike are wondering which countries will also follow suit and ramp up their gaming industries.

Suzy Mortemer looks at the camera through a heavy veil of makeup. She wears her hair midnight black on the left, platinum blond on the right.

That North Korean leader Kim Jong Un won his first parliamentary election with a clear 100% of the vote might not be remarkable, but who he chose to cast his vote with certainly has sparked interest amongst Korea-watchers.

Chef Shirley Chung made a trip to South Korea after competing on Season 11 of "Top Chef" in New Orleans.

Royal Malaysian Air Force pilots work in the cockpit of a Malaysian Air Force CN235 aircraft during a search and rescue operation to find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, in the Strait of Malacca, on March 13, 2014.

For many South Koreans, the U.S. is and will continue to be country's most important military ally, but a substantial minority believes China's importance will increase in the future.

Answering questions in parliament, Abe reiterated Friday what his government's top spokesman said earlier this week about the 1993 statement on the so-called comfort women system.

Amid increasing talk of reunification and shifts in the regional security landscape, calls have grown for Seoul and Washington to set clear mid- and long-term visions for their alliance.

North Korea on Thursday denied any responsibility for an oil tanker that loaded crude from a Libyan rebel-held port and fled the OPEC member state's attempt to seize it, saying the vessel that carried its flag was linked to an Egyptian firm.

Tension and anxiety are sometimes crucial factors that drive modern individuals to deal with the increasingly competitive world.

Art works confiscated from the family of former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-Hwan have been auctioned to pay multi-million-dollar fines imposed for bribes the disgraced military strongman received in office.

The studio is signing a pact next week with the local government to ensure support for filming in the Korean capital's Gangnam district .

In partnership with Scottsdale Public Art, the Festival will present the U.S. debut of Happy Gift , a 30-foot-wide interactive 'bounce house,' by the pioneering Los Angeles-based art collective FriendsWithYou.

A further piece of research has found that the hormone changed anorexic patients' responses to images of angry and disgusted faces.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has once again called on Russia to back away from its efforts to split the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.

Craving noodles, rice bowls, dumplings, and fish soup for an early breakfast? JeonJu Bbop in Lynnwood offers all of this and more, starting at 8 a.m. daily .

Japan is trying to arrange a trilateral summit with South Korea and the United States for this month, a government official said on Wednesday, in a bid to thaw Tokyo's frozen relations with Seoul.

Interest is growing in the two mysterious black rocks found at Korean farms, with early analysis results indicating that at least one may be a meteorite.

Cardiff label Turnstile Records packs St. David's sanctuary with quietude, but the title, "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives," stakes its impressionability.

By Nurul Hanis Izmir KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 -- South Korea is taking steps to upgrade its level of understanding about halal products, says Korean Halal Association Managing Director, Kim Jin Woo.