Google disabled 49% more ads in 2015 than the prior year, as the Internet giant developed new ways to detect a rising tide of dubious online marketing tactics.
Kuomintang (KMT) announced Wednesday that it will choose a new leader on March 26. Eric Chu resigned last week after his electoral defeat.
The company announced Tuesday that it had topped expectations in adding a record 5.59 million total streaming members during the quarter, for a total 74.76 million across the globe.
The number of passengers on international flights via Japan's Kansai International Airport in 2015 reached a new record high due to increasing LCC (low-cost carrier) flights from China and other Asian countries, said the New Kansai International Airport Co., Ltd. on Monday.
The prices of crude oil are most likely to stay at relatively low levels in the near future as there are no signs of major producers taking actions to ease a severe oil glut yet. Nevertheless, some energy officials and analysts said that they expect the oil glut to gradually rebalance itself into 2016, though the high oil prices seen in the past may not be recovered soon.
After months of delays, Australian bitcoin company Bitcoin Group will finally make its share market debut in February.
Ukraine only produced 39.8 million metric tons of coal last year because of factors including conflict in the country's eastern regions and falling energy prices.
International tourist arrivals in Thailand are expected to reach a record high in 2016, the tourism minister said on Wednesday, after nearly 30 million foreigners came to its temples, beaches and bars in 2015.
Hong Kong Customs Wednesday arrested an incoming female passenger at Hong Kong International Airport and seized about 2.4 kilograms of suspected cocaine with an estimated market value of about 2.56 million Hong Kong dollars (about 0.33 million U.S. dollars).
"Like the other countries, we also hope that peace and stability prevail in the region," said Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. in a news briefing in Malacanang, the presidential palace.
The world-renowned Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo held its final new year auction Tuesday, before the much loved fish and food nirvana will be relocated later in the year.
Job availability in Japan increased to its highest level in nearly 24 years in November as improving profits spurred companies to take on more staff, Japan's health ministry said Friday.
Australia yesterday approved a controversial port expansion to support mining projects and the dredging of 1.1 million cubic metres of spoil, despite fears that it threatens the Great Barrier Reef.
More than 2,700 civilians have been killed since the start of conflict in Yemen in January, senior UN officials said here Tuesday.
As the latest Star Wars movie - The Force Awakens - continues to mesmerize audiences around the world, producers have woken to news on Monday that the film is on track to become highest grossing film ever seen in Australia.
Pakistan's Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) joined an Asian bullish rally on Thursday after America's Federal Reserve hiked its key rate for the first time since 2006.
Asia is minting billionaires faster than anywhere else in the world, and this elite group is giving Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern aristocrats a run for their money in the trophy-assets stakes.
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