Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces a deepening political scandal over an incident in which a government minister allegedly kissed a female diplomat in a Hong Kong bar.
A paradise with sandy white beaches where pure-minded people lived. That's how Yoo Deok Moon describes Bamseom, once his island home in the middle of the Han River running through central Seoul.
From economic policy to stock market moves and mergers, changes in the corporate landscape took place at a breathless pace this year. Aaron Low looks back at some of the key events in financial markets and the global economy that made 2015 a momentous year for markets around the world.