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 government might stop paying for rooftop solar power sold to the grid to prevent an overload and abuse of its renewable energy incentives.

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.

The Thai government has decided to continue its visa waiver for Russian tourists until July as the regional tourism race heats up.

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.