With no new licences issued since the 1970s and MTR expansion steadily eroding profits and earnings, minibus operators struggle to recruit drivers. They hope to be allowed to add more seats
Red tape costs the Australian economy 176 billion AU dollars (129 billion U.S. dollars) a year, or 11 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), said a report released by a free market think tank on Wednesday.
Official conservation agencies in China and New Zealand on Friday agreed to work together to protect wetlands used as nesting areas on epic bird migrations. The wetlands are visited by red knots and bar-tailed godwits during their 12,000-kilometer migratory flights.
The closure of the Kalijodo red light district in North and West Jakarta is just one stage in the government’s ambition to close down all 168 such areas across the country by 2019 as part of its efforts to eradicate prostitution.
Beijing and its neighboring cities will start using uniform criteria when they issue pollution alerts by the end of March, the capital's environmental protection bureau said on Sunday.
Beijinger Ma Lei's fingers have been a blur across her cell phone key pad during this Lunar New Year holiday.
Worried about losing traffic on their smartphone apps while people are distracted by Spring Festival celebrations, Chinese internet firms vied to keep users tuned in with cash gifts.
Roughly 50 cities in northern and eastern China have issued air pollution alerts in the most recent bout of smog.
China's northern Hebei Province and the port city of Tianjin issued their first-ever air pollution red alerts, the most serious level, joining neighboring Beijing in experiencing this most recent bout of choking smog.
Beijing is getting tough with those who violate traffic restrictions and production suspension after the first-ever red alert for smog was issued on Monday.
Beijing has issued its first red alert for air pollution under a four-tier emergency response system created in October 2013.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called for more efforts to streamline administration procedures and scale back government controls to unleash economic vitality.
When it comes to sending New Year's greetings in China, the latest fashion is to say: How many electronic "red envelopes" did you receive?
Chinese consumers spent lavishly on travel, movies and gifts during the lunar New Year holiday.
The traditional scene of children clad in red, knelt down, kowtowing to their elders, who hand them red envelopes containing "lucky money" for Spring Festival is now a rarity.
Vietnam, like other East Asian countries,holds a ceremony on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to bid farewell to the Kitchen Gods.
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