A senior politician and four-term chief minister of the northern Indian state of Haryana currently serving jail term for corruption has passed Class 12 school examination at the age of 82.
A senior politician and four-term chief minister of the northern Indian state of Haryana currently serving jail term for corruption has passed Class 12 school examination at the age of 82.
A Chinese tourism company based in Japan terminated its business relationship with Japanese APA Hotels after learning that the latter provided books denying the occurrence of the Nanjing Massacre. The books were written by Toshio Motoya, CEO of APA Group. The books have sparked outrage across Chinese social media, Guancha.cn reported.
Zaw Zaw was a poor villager from Mandalay, whose insatiable hunger for books drove him to Yangon. There, his love for reading bore fruit and brought smiles to bookworms from underprivileged backgrounds.
Jason Ng discounts the usual suspects behind the closure of chains such as Page One and Dymocks, saying that faulty business sense, in the main, was their undoing
Lucky subway and taxi passengers in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai might stumble upon a hidden book during their commutes.
At the Autumn Book Fair, the largest of its kind in the country, local readers have shown great passion towards Chinese best-sellers.
Despite an easy access to reading material available through a variety of digitally connected devices, print books remain much more popular than books in digital formats among Americans, a new Pew survey showed.
On a recent weekend evening at the western end of Shanghai’s leafy Hengshan Road, a three-storey bookstore was filled with young people. But most of them were taking photos instead of reading.
Everything you have ever wanted to know about football lines the shelves of Futbologia (Footballogy), a Mexico City bookstore that specializes in the sport.
The wealth writers generate through royalty may not necessarily tell how good their works are, but it's an indicator of the readers' taste.
With less than a week left until the end of Bangladesh's largest month-long annual book fair, thousands of all ages are still flocking daily to see and buy new books.
Japan's education ministry said Friday that more than half of the nation's publishers of school textbooks had broken strict censorship regulations, with thousands of teachers potentially being paid illicitly to provide input to the books.
Education minister Eddie Ng Hak-kim, who was widely ridiculed for saying he could read 30 books a month and more than 10 books during a long-distance flight, went a step further on Thursday by claiming that devouring that much words was “a piece of cake”.
Bringing in nearly 10,000 book titles from some 150 publishers, China came under the spotlight in this "publishing and cultural capital of the world" as BookExpo America (BEA) 2015 kicked off in New York City's Javits Center Wednesday.
When he posted an advertisement to sell his second-hand books online last Saturday, Kang Xia didn't expect it to turn into a shopping bonanza.
Digital media have overtaken books as the most read media in China, according to a national survey released on Monday.
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