Sales at Korea's duty-free shops surpassed W5 trillion for the first time in the first half of this year largely thanks to increasing foreign visitor numbers.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged efforts to boost social (private and mixed-owned) investment by "removing obstacles, improving the environment and expanding room for development."
Personnel issue, including the election of Vietnamese top leadership positions, will be the focus of the upcoming session of Vietnamese parliament, said an official on Tuesday.
The CityTree and Smog Free Tower out of Europe are among the latest sustainable ideas to combat air pollution
China's fixed-asset investment grew 9 percent in the first half of 2016, down from 9.6 percent in the first five months and 10.7 percent in the first quarter, official data showed Friday.
China's economy expanded slightly faster than expected in the second quarter but private investment growth shrank to a record low, suggesting future weakness which could pressure the government to roll out more support measures.
Chinese centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reported better financial performances in the first half of 2016 as the market-oriented reform measures began to take effect, said the country's top regulator of SOEs Thursday.
Six people were killed and eight others remain missing after Typhoon Nepartak made landfall and swept through east China's Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, authorities said Sunday.
The first round of financing of new shares in A-share market for the first half of 2016 has ended. Statistics show there are 61 cases of IPOs in the A-share market in the first half with total amount of fundraising reaching nearly 30 billion yuan.
Olivier Giroud scored two goals and set up another as the Euro 2016 hosts France thrashed Iceland 5-2 on Sunday to set up a semi-final clash against world champions Germany.
The female panda Xinxin in China's Macao Special Administrative Region has given birth to twin cubs in the afternoon of last Sunday, which marks the first-ever pandas born here.
National University of Singapore takes the top spot in the Times Higher Education Asian University Rankings 2016.
This event, dubbed GW151226, was seen on December 26th at 03:38:53 (in Universal Coordinated Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time), near the end of LIGO's first observing period ("O1"), and was immediately nicknamed "the Boxing Day event".
French winger Dimitri Payat scored a brilliant goal in the 89th minute to gift the hosts a 2-1 win over Romania in the UEFA EURO 2016 opener here on Friday night.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday reached the number of delegates required to notch the Democratic nomination, according to the Associated Press's latest delegate count.
U.S. space firm SpaceX on Friday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean after launching a commercial communications satellite into orbit for a Thailand company.
The motive behind U.S. President Barack Obama's planned visit to Japan's A-bombed Hiroshima on Friday may seem noble, but in reality, it is nothing more than yet another opportunity seized by Washington and Tokyo to pursue their own ulterior motives.
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