The government has approved a 20-month plan to write and ratify a new constitution and hold elections.
Investor interest in Uber appears to be continuing on its growth trajectory as the company reportedly is set for another fundraising round.
The news comes at a time when Indonesia is struggling to tackle growing forest fires that have sent choking smoke blowing across the region for weeks.
Boeing predicts that in the coming decades China will overtake the U.S. as the world's largest market for travel.
El Niño is expected to grow even stronger in 2016.
The haze is a product of the annual burning of forests by Indonesia to make way for palm-oil tree and paper plantations.
Indonesia has also asked for aircraft to artificially induce rain and carry out water-bombing.
Poor Muslims in the region may be ideal targets for radical groups looking to recruit for deployment abroad.
Despite an economic slowdown, Chinese tourism continues to grow -- as do frustrations for travelers.
The bi-annual holiday is normally a bonanza for retailers, but a drop in the number of visiting mainland Chinese looks set to inflict pain on the city's retail sector.
The government had decided to use a single gateway as a tool to regulate information flow from other countries, and to restrict inappropriate websites.
The rice subsidy program reportedly lost billions, but won Yingluck Shinawatra support in rural Thailand during her campaign.
Indonesia and Thailand have cracked down on fish that are caught by illegally enslaved migrant laborers in their countries after an investigation linked them to U.S. suppliers.
A foreign national, who was the first suspect arrested in the aftermath of a bombing in the Thai capital that killed at least 20, is the person police believe planted the bomb.
The Thai government plans to implement severe restrictions on Internet access in the country, similar to those in China.
Malaysian police said that four of the eight arrested were locals believed to have helped others illegally enter Thailand.
Bhumibol has spent much of the last two years in the hospital, but his heir apparent is controversial.
Median estimates predicted a drop of 2.8 percent for the rest of 2015.
Thailand's police chief explicitly linked the country's worst bombing in recent history to a smuggling network involving members of the Uighur community.
Police officials said two Malaysians and a Pakistani who have been linked to the Erawan Shrine bombing that killed 20 have been arrested.
Adem Karadag, who was arrested last month during a police raid, reportedly paid $600 at the Thai border to cross into the country.
A suspect in the Erawan Shrine blast that killed 20 people last month admitted to handing over a backpack containing explosives to the bomber.
