Over 100,000 people on Sunday afternoon flocked to streets in Taipei to protest a cross-Strait service trade pact, while businesses executives called for an end to the protest.
Taiwan mulled allowing citizens from 15 more mainland cities to travel to the island as individual tourists (without contracts to travel agencies) this year, the island's tourism authority announced on Thursday.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority announced on Friday it had approved an application by North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation to dispose of dredge spoil at a deepwater location offshore of Abbot Point in the Marine Park area.
Taiwan will establish a governing body to direct the island's development of fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, the island's executive authority declared on Friday at a conference.
China has rejected 12 batches of U.S. corn shipments tainted with a genetically-modified (GM) strain not approved by the country's agriculture ministry, its leading quality supervisor said on Friday.
Singapore's Media Development Authority has notified owners of a local socio-political commentary website to register under a class licensing scheme, the media regulator said on Wednesday.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) lifted a ban on food imports from seven prefectures in Japan on Monday.
The China Earthquake Networks Center is reporting a 6.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan's Nantou County on Wednesday morning.
Cargo volume and air traffic movements at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) rose 21.2 percent and 4.4 percent year on year, to 334,000 tonnes and 30,290 in January, official figures released Sunday indicated.
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