There's a growing tribe of Japanese ink aficionados who defy deeply-rooted taboos associating tattoos with crime, turning their skin into vivid palettes of color with elaborate full-body designs, often featuring characters from traditional legends.

Restrictions to contain the new coronavirus, or even just fears of contagion, have prompted many people to give up training at their local gym. 

She's been a princess, a president, a Marine Corps sergeant, an astronaut and a Star Wars stormtrooper. In Mexico for the Day of the Dead festival, Barbie is even a skeleton.

Jakarta Content Week 2020 celebrates a plethora of content creatives in Indonesia. 

Austria's postal service has united two aspects of the coronavirus pandemic in a stamp printed on toilet paper that people can also, at a push, use for social distancing.

The limited-edition G-SHOCK x One Piece watch will soon greet its fans in Indonesia.

Apple Inc is expanding a new physical store format as it tries to get iPhone 12 models into customers' hands.

The family owners of Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo have held informal talks with financial investors to sell a minority stake in their holding firm as they seek to turn around the luxury brand and cope with the fallout of COVID-19.

Road to BeautyFest Asia 2020 features four beauty influencers in a series of virtual events prior to the annual BeautyFest Asia. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has made vending machines less essential -- so much so that monthly sales of drinks dropped by over 35 percent earlier this year.

Like much of Europe, Bulgaria has seen a surge in COVID-19 infections this autumn, and this has quickly dented the numbers of visitors coming to the 2,000-seat venue.

With regard to health and safety protocols, hotels have been following government recommendations. 

Recent hires often are working from home, which means employee learning, socializing with colleagues, integrating into teams and starting on projects are all taking place in a fully virtual environment.

More than 2 million Chileans have lost their jobs in the past year, the result of a one-two punch from the mass protests in 2019 and the pandemic this year.

Shortly before the clock struck 9 pm on Saturday, restaurant shutters in Paris came down and people dashed home to beat a strict new curfew to battle the coronavirus outbreak.

Hit by a plunge in turnover after foreign tourists vanished, Michelin-starred Hungarian restaurant Costes has staged a skyline dining event on the Budapest Eye ferris wheel to generate sales in a coronavirus-proof environment.

The pandemic has forced businesses worldwide to pivot online to survive, and many have turned to Shopify, a Canadian company that has emerged as a thriving alternative to Amazon.

Single and locked out of Beijing's dating scene by the pandemic, Amy was encouraged by other women in online chatrooms to find a solution to her enforced abstinence -- a sex toy.

The rapid proliferation over recent years of second-hand luxury sales online platforms have helped fuel an expansion of the market, similar to those of US online luxury reseller The RealReal Inc or Europe's Vestiaire Collective.

The founder of the #MeToo movement marked its third anniversary by launching an online platform to fight sexual violence, hoping to expand the reach of the campaign against harassment and assault.

People can get the G-SHOCK x Dragon Ball Z watch from Friday. 

Urban planners and local authorities must improve walkability in cities to tackle poor health and social inequality, after the coronavirus pandemic highlighted the importance of being able to walk easily and safely.

Social Bella has expanded to Vietnam to take advantage of the country's strong beauty and self-care market. 

Participants can register their teams and compete with others in the JOOX Virtual Race 2020. 

People tired of their flat pack IKEA dressers, drawers, cabinets and tables will now be able to sell them back to the furniture retailer for resale in its stores as secondhand.

Almost all LGBT+ students in the United States have heard offensive remarks about their sexuality or gender identity with comments regularly bandied around playgrounds and campus cafeterias.

Pub owners across England's COVID-19 hotspots were on Tuesday pondering a question that could decide if they survive or sink due to the coronavirus lockdown: when is a pub a pub, and when does it become a restaurant?

The Korea Creative Content Agency and CJ ENM will host “KCON:TACT season 2”, an online affair that will kick off Thursday and continue through Oct. 25. 

An extremely rare, vivid purple-pink diamond mined in Russia is expected to fetch up to $38 million when it goes under the hammer on Nov. 11.

The United Kingdom's hospitality industry is mounting a legal challenge to the government's lockdown restrictions, aiming to stop its plans to close pubs and other venues to tackle the rise in coronavirus cases.