Los Angeles Times Asia

Varun Soni straightened his shoulders and grasped the podium, his dark suit flanked by the stately white robes of priests and ministers.

Nguyen Linh’s mother blames her daughter for an addiction that started seven years ago.

When Taiwanese menswear brand SST&C opened its first U.S. store last year, the company bypassed glitzy shopping hubs such as Beverly Hills or South Coast Plaza in favor of a mall tucked into the San Gabriel Valley.

In a restaurant rising from an overgrown parking lot at 91st Street and Central Avenue, fried chicken, chow mein and the occasional fist bump pass through holes cut in panes of bulletproof glass.

Her brow is resolute, as if hardened by innumerable Yankee losses.

In a gravelly riverbed blooming with dry desert brush, conservationist Dharmendra Khandal pointed to the spot where villagers once set a deadly trap for two young male tigers.

A shaft of light peeks through the doorway of a 100-year-old gym.

Wang Hao thrived during her semester as an exchange student in Taiwan.

We had gone to bed at 8 p.m. and set our alarms for 1:50 a.m.