Japan has urged its local governments as well as national universities to stop referring to Google Maps for directional advises on their respective Web sites. Japan was furious over how Google Maps treated some of its disputed islands.
Organisers of the Taipei leg of the world-renowned Color RunTM event are currently in the hot seat for allegedly dumping into the city's Dajia Riverside Park the remnants of the coloured powder it had doused on the marathon runners on Saturday.
China is inarguably working to achieve so many things right now. Aside from racing to have cleaner and improved air quality by 2017, it only has set its sights to launch its own space station by 2023.
Russia's law banning "gay propaganda" doesn't defy the charter of the Olympic Games, and so the winter event will proceed as scheduled in 2014 at Sochi, the International Olympic Committee announced on Thursday.
Have equity investors already priced in 'QE Forever'? If so, is there nowhere left to go but down?
Four years since China blocked Facebook after activists used the portal to communicate their vendetta, the country has decided to partially lift the ban but only in select areas, particularly the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ). Twitter has likewise been granted albeit only with the same limited access. However, Chinese netizens don't seem to be excited over the latest announcement in their microblogging hemisphere.
New Zealand's sheep milking is predicted to be big industry for New Zealanders in the future with Blue River Dairy planning to invest millions of dollars in new equipment. Due to the decline of dairy exports, the trade deficit in New Zealand grew to $981 million or NZ$1.2 billion for the month of August. This is the biggest trade deficit for the country in five years. Exports slumped to their lowest since Sept. 2012 as dairy exports were down 1.8 per cent.
Smartphone shipments in the world's biggest market China has been forecast to hit more than 450 million units in 2014, according to research firm IDC. The jack up will be triggered by the government's issuance of 4G licences as well as the foreseen Apple (AAPL) - China Mobile alliance. Will Tim Cook's company finally regain its bruised share in the China market pie?
The ongoing 2½-year political disaster in Syria has expanded to include food crisis, affecting children who are now on the verge of malnutrition.
People wanting to live longer and breathe in fresher, cleaner air may want to get out from mega cities in China, India, Indonesia and Europe and migrate to other regions in the world. A map recently released by NASA has specifically and graphically pinpointed where air pollution is at its deadliest around the globe.
Authorities in China arrested a 16-year-old youth to strike a message and elicit fear to those who commit online rumour mongering. But the outcry of the public, manifested also through online furor, wilted the officials' convictions enough for them to release the youth they had alleged as troublemaker. Epic fail.
Good thing Qantas Airways staff discovered the 20-centimeter (8-inch) snake way even before passengers boarded its plane bound for Tokyo. Otherwise it would have been chaos equivalent to the 2006 American action thriller film 'Snakes on a Plane.' Imagine combining aerophobia, the fear of flying, and ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes.
Australia is one of the cheapest places in the world to buy an iPad
ZYL Limited (ZYL), an ASX-listed metallurgical coal exploration and development company, has paid a total penalty of $66,000 after the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) served two infringement notices on the company for failing to comply with its continuous disclosure obligations. The infringement notices pertain to an ASIC investigation into ZYL announcements on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).
In the post-war era, there is the strong relationship between economic and electoral success. Despite having steered the nation through the 2007/8 crisis, Australia's left of centre Labour Party was defeated at the 7 September election 2013, primarily for other political reasons.
New Zealanders work longer hours but have low productivity levels when compared with other workers in other developed nations. According to report from the Productivity Commission, the output of New Zealand workers is a fifth less than their counterparts in other countries.
Recently adjudged as China's richest billionaire by the Hurun Report, Wang Jianlin is set to embark on an ambitious goal to build what could become the world's biggest film studio in China.
Businesses that pursued innovation are more than twice as likely to improve their productivity, than those that do not, according to figures released Thursday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
In what has to be its most drastic move yet to rein in its country's pollution crisis, the Chinese government will be coming out with a monthly list of 10 most polluted cities and 10 cities with cleanest air. Australia could be at risk with this as China has likewise ordered coal-reduction targets for its provinces.
Pope Francis is now in a bottle. Well, his scent at least. American fragrance maker Excelsis Fine Fragrances has released a new scent that pays homage to the "humble and down to earth" personality of the half-year old supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic church. A dab of this scent would probably make someone smell heavenly, or smell like a saint. Just hope it won't make criminals smell as appealing too.
New Zealand has the fifth highest job turnover rates in the world, according to the Kelly Global Workforce Index. Experts said that New Zealanders are willing to take risks and change jobs more often in a reviving economic environment.
I was in Uruguay and then Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week. I met with a variety of interesting people on my trip. One of them is a guy who writes a blog from Buenos Aires, OfWealth.com, under the pen name 'Marco Polo'.
In some good news for the agriculture sector in Australia, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) says the country’s gross value of farm production is expected to achieve a record of $49 billion in 2013-14.
Big moves happened overnight. In fact, if you go by betting website Paddy Power's numbers, the moves were so big they had to shut down the entire market.
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a suspended Vatican official who was arrested in June on money-laundering charges, told prosecutors that his office, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), has handled and provided financial services for outside clients.
Xiaomi Inc, inarguably Apple Inc's toughest competitor yet in China, has introduced the Mi3 smartphone handset along with an accompanying video.
Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest-altitude civilian airport, at 4,411 metres above sea level, has been inaugurated in Tibet, China.
Our 'Crash Alert' flag warns of a crash in US stocks. Readers are advised to proceed with caution.
Collaborative efforts to control and manage the escalating global warming and resulting climate change have unfortunately been found being undermined by the continued carbon emissions of 50 of the world's biggest-emitting companies.
Australia logged a 5.8 per cent unemployment rate in August, up from 5.7 per cent in June and a four-year high record.
