The Netherlands' Amsterdam will no longer allow new hotel buildings to be built as part of its fight against mass tourism, the local government said on Wednesday.
The biggest economic challenge for the government after the ongoing election is unemployment, according to economists polled by Reuters who expected the world's most populous country to grow a healthy 6.5% this fiscal year.
Thai tourism operators are urging the Thai government to seriously consider measures to tackle overtourism and one of the proposed measures is a tourism tax of 300 baht (US$8.11).
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday.
Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying and some tilting, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago.
Malaysia plans to build Southeast Asia's largest integrated circuit design park and will offer incentives including tax breaks, subsidies and visa exemption fees to attract global tech companies and investors, the government said on Monday.
Vietnam won the Dien Bien Phu battle 70 years ago, forcing the French government to sign the Geneva Agreement in July 1954 and marking the end of the French military presence in the Indochina.
More than three million foreigners visited Japan in March, a record for a single month, government data showed Wednesday in a major boost for its tourism sector.
Many jewelry stores in Ho Chi Minh City have shuttered temporarily in the last two weeks as authorities began an inspection of the market to weed out fake and smuggled gold.
The Vietnam National Tourism Administration has said the tourism industry will work closely with government agencies to offer "reasonable prices" for domestic travel amid complaints of stubbornly expensive airfares.
The labor ministry wants the government to declare a five-day Reunification Day-Labor Day holiday with people taking April 29 off and working instead on May 4, Saturday.
The government has decided to prioritize the construction of two high-speed railroad lines in the north before 2030, including one connecting with China.
Outnumbered by older voters, under-represented in parliament, ignored on the campaign trail: South Korea's young say the political system is failing them, and some are fighting back before Wednesday's election.
