Chinese around the world will be wearing lots of red today, to celebrate the Lunar New Year marking the end of the disaster-filled Year of the Rabbit and to usher in a new year with more prosperity. January 23 begins the Year of the Dragon, which should bring relief following 2011, which was foreseen by the Chinese calendar as a very bad year.
At least 11 kids and their parents, refugees from Fukushima and other parts of Japan, are visiting Oregon this month and living with U.S. host families as part of a grass-roots effort to give them a break from the stress and health risks they had been facing at home.
Susanne Janson's life was shattered in 2004 when her two young daughters were killed in the tsunami that ravaged Southeast Asia. She found solace and healing by starting a new life in Thailand, where she has provided daily care to more than 100 children in need, as a way to turn disaster into hope.
Young American volunteers marked Independence Day by continuing their remarkable clean up on behalf of Japan's tsunami survivors. And, their American-style celebration helped to lift the spirits of the struggling community there.
A Vietnamese family faced certain death trying to escape communist rule in a crowded fishing boat that was taking on water as a storm approached. Thankfully, an American captain aboard the USS Morton knows the importance of making an exception and found them in time to rescue the 52 people on board.
A jail-based brand that includes crispy potato chips, crunchy cookies and formal shirts is transforming the lives of inmates and prepare them for a fresh start through vocational training in diverse fields, thanks to the successful launch of TJ'S brand (named for the prison).
In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori.
A wave of anonymous donations in the name of a 1960s comic superhero, a character who began an orphan, is spreading across Japan, benefiting homes for underprivileged children and other charities.
This inspiring amputee hasn't let a lack of legs keep her from saving the lives of the people in her village.
He speeds around the globe in dangerous car chases in the "Bourne" movies, but in real life, Damon chases down the one thing every person needs, but can't always get.
Roughly 800,000 people jostled for spaces to plant 50 million trees in a single day to improve the environment and claim a world record.
"India has managed to do what few other nations have accomplished (and no other Asians): putting a satellite into orbit around another planet" — and on the first try.
This baby cub, rescued from the illegal wildlife trade, can bear-ly contain her excitement while taking a romp in the woods.
The founder of the Hyundai conglomerate, a self-made billionaire who left North Korea in 1933 at the age of 18 to seek his fortune, returned on June 16 driving 500 fattened cattle in 50 open trucks, an offering to help feed his famine-ravaged homeland.
The city of Chennai, India experienced one of the worst monsoons in over a 100 years. One hero emerged to feed thousands and galvanize the community.
Muslim villagers are helping their Christian neighbors raise money to rebuild a Catholic church destroyed by monsoon rains in Pakistan.
For the past two months, one of my favorite reads has been a blog started by 9-year-old Martha Payne of western Scotland to document in photos the daily lunches she was being served in her public primary school. Payne started blogging in early May and her lunch photos went viral in days. She had a million viewers within a few weeks; was written up in Time, the Telegraph, the Daily Mail; and got support from TV chef Jamie Oliver, whose series "Jamie's School Dinners" kicked off school-food reform in England.
In Hebei, China, a teenager named Lui Shi Ching, 16 years old, has carried his friend to school daily for the last 8 years. His friend Lu Shao has a congenital disorder which makes it difficult for him to walk.
When a supermarket manager found out the reason a man was shoplifting, he chose to give the thief a job– and money –instead of jail time.
Ever since the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 blighted the surrounding area, Japanese farmers have been unable to return to their fields – until now.
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