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Byline: FRANK CHING Lead Hong Kong-based journalist Even with the world focused on the plight of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Beijing has continued its efforts to quietly tighten its control over [...]

TWANTE, Myanmar -- When the bullock carts lugging passengers and produce pulled into Yangon, coated in the umber dust of the countryside, the people on board, if not the oxen, [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the execution of a Buddhist inmate in Texas whose request that his spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber had been [...]

BANGALORE, India -- When I met Watareka Vijitha Thero in early 2014 in a suburb of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, he had been in hiding for nearly five months. [...]

IMAGINE a boarding-school-educated young man, fluent in several languages and gifted with a camera, telling his beloved grandmother that he was becoming a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Never an easy tete-a-tete. [...]

Buddhism and the Chinese philosophies of Taoism and Confucianism have a major influence on the way business is conducted in Hong Kong. Charles Yeung, head of the 600 million pound sterling Glorious Sun Group, believes that his luck in business stems from being a devout Buddhist. Lawyer Peter Lo, a senior official at the Taoist temple of Wong Tai Sin, attributes much of Hong Kong's business success to businessmen's use of fortune sticks and their consultation of the Tung Sing to determine whether a day is a good one for concluding a particular deal.