Japanese museum to showcase culture of country's #indigenous  Ainu　#arts  #Hokkaido 

Tokyo Disney takes 6% profit hit after typhoon closures #travel 

South Korea's super spicy noodles find hot markets worldwide #ramen  #food 

Activist investors regain their appetite for Japanese stocks #Topix  #value  #Nikkei225 

Taiwan fines #coronavirus  patient $10,000 for 'hiding' illness #Wuhan  #travel 

Vietnam is experiencing a literary renaissance.

No longer a regional issue, Xi elevates Wuhan outbreak to "all-China" emergency.

This was our most read opinion piece for the week.

OPINION | Despite opportunities and benefits, Japan should consider negative social impacts that integrated resorts will cause, writes Ki-Joon Back.

‘We are so parsimonious. We save everything for a rainy day. But we need to use that surplus to stave off the bogeyman. It's raining like hell,’ says Yeoh Lam Keong, former chief economist of Singapore's state fund GIC.