What Am I Riddles

Question: A smooth dance, a ball sport, a place to stay, an Asian country, and a girl's name.

What's her name?

Question: I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

What am I?

Question: If it's information you seek, come and see me.
If it's pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three.

Who am I?

Question: What's always coming, but never arrives?

Question: A man shaves several times a day, yet he still has a beard.

Who is this man?