South Korea's retail and tourism industries are seeking ways to embrace a growing number of independent travelers from China with customized services as Beijing is set to tighten regulations on cheap package tours, industry officials said Monday.
Lock-up shares worth about 8.7 billion yuan (about 1.29 billion U.S. dollars) will become eligible for trade on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges in the coming week.
Chinese customers are proving the mainstay of S.Korean online shopping malls, with revenues from overseas doubling over the past year.
Thousands of Japanese costume fans have joined forces for the Kawasaki Halloween parade - dressed as everything from a Chanel handbag to a Samsung Galaxy phone.
A 24-year-old beauty queen and pre-school teacher from the Philippines nabbed the title of Miss International 2016 at Thursday’s coronation at the Tokyo Dome. Kylie Verzosa beat out 69 other contestants to win the title.
Islamic State fighters kept up on Wednesday their fierce defense of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops there and forced an elite army unit east of the city to put a more rapid advance on hold.
Asian stocks edged up early on Wednesday following an overnight rise for U.S. stocks, while reduced hopes that a meeting of major producers would reduce a oversupply weighed heavily on crude oil prices.
New U.S. single-family home sales posted their biggest decline in nearly a year in August after soaring to nine-year highs the month before, with analysts saying the trend in sales remains positive.
Xiamen city in the east coastal province of Fujian is picking up the pieces after Typhoon Meranti passed through Thursday, leaving 28 people dead and 15 others still missing.
Over 72,000 people accessed the free wifi service at new pedestrian streets in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi over the past four days, leading to lagging or overloading.
From a contract manufacturer for foreign companies to an independent brand owner eying global expansion, the technology company Ugreen has reaped the fruits of moving up the value chain.
Despite concern that visit could backfire due to growing independence sentiment in city, fans remain eager to see their sporting idols
The carnival capital of Rio de Janeiro will host a glittering Olympics opening ceremony party on Friday, hoping to draw a line under a turbulent seven-year build-up dogged by recession, drugs scandals, crime and infrastructure stumbles.
Six years ago, a Chinese engineer came up with a novel way to beat China's notorious traffic gridlock: a giant, elevated bus that allows cars to pass underneath.
Australian doctors behind the first trial of the robotic versus non-robotic surgery for prostate cancer have found that both methods produce similar results at three months after the operation, a study published in the Lancet medical journal said on Wednesday.
Canada's main stock market in Toronto rose Tuesday on rising miners and materials stocks as Blackberry released its latest smartphone.
The CityTree and Smog Free Tower out of Europe are among the latest sustainable ideas to combat air pollution
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