Tourism authorities will urge travel agencies to monitor tour groups and will explore the use of personal credit reports to identify possible offenders in advance.
The younger brother of South Korean President Park Geun-hye appeared at prosecutors' office on Monday for questioning about whether he was involved in the leakage of a presidential document.
Australia's national security intelligence service said on Thursday that the number of new arrivals of Australian jihadists in the Middle East was roughly keeping pace with the fatalities.
Canadian stock market tumbled to seven-week low Monday amid investors' concern about the continuous oil price slide and China's weaker-than-expected trade data.
Chinese Internet users seemed pleased with the cooling off of "civil servant fever" as fewer people took the national civil service examination on Sunday.
Japan's current account surplus for the first half of the fiscal 2014 stood at a record low at 2,023.9 billion yen (about 17.62 billion U.S. dollars) in the period from April to September, the Japanese Finance Ministry said Tuesday.
Using genetic analysis, scientists have been able to conclusively establish that insects originated about 480 million years ago, and that they developed the ability to fly some 80 million years later, the Commonwealth of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) said on Friday.
A novel mosquito trap that lures its prey using human scent and other smells favored by the critter is creating a buzz as Japan frets about the spread of dengue fever, the Asahi Shimbun reported Thursday.
"Ball Lightning", one of the bestselling recent Chinese science fiction novels, is to be released in English.
Local and international officials handed over on Monday keys to new constructed houses for 12 Egyptian families that returned to Kosovo after 15 years of displacement.
An overwhelming majority of eight out of ten Greek citizens are still pessimistic about the national economy and the future of their own finances, four years after the start of the debt crisis, an opinion poll released on the weekend showed.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand ( TAT) has launched a campaign and marketing plan to try to net 2.2 trillion baht (about 69 billion U.S. dollars) from local and international visitors in 2015.
About one percent of Chinese households own one-third of the nation's wealth, raising concerns about income inequality in the world's most populous country, according to a study by Peking University.
Hollywood writer and director Chris D. Nebe's documentary about the Diaoyu Islands made its debut in Beijing on Sunday after its first screening earlier this month in Los Angeles.
The first teams of U.S. military advisers have begun their mission in Baghdad and more troops are on their way, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
An international group of scientists is planning to drill a 1.3-km deep hole into the hills of New Zealand's Southern Alps in order to understand how earthquakes are produced.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday issued an alert to warn investors about the potential risks of investments involving bitcoin and other forms of virtual currency.
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