Hong Kong Disneyland has announced the introduction of a new flat ticket price structure. Effective immediately, the park will remove the existing tiered (peak and non-peak) pricing structure across its three guest categories: adult, child and senior.Under the new structure, adult and child tickets for overseas guests for all days will be realigned at HK$350 […]
High infrastructure costs have slowed down the progress of the proposed construction of the 5,000km railway that will link Singapore to Kunming, China, Bernama has reported.The ASEAN-sponsored project was initially tabled in December 1995, with the cost estimated at US$23 billion. ASEAN reportedly remains confident of completing the project by 2015.“The problem is that certain […]
DON’T be surprised if you hear the hand-mixed electronic grooves of Superfly 98.3-FM, the newest radio station in Vienna , emanating from the Seventh District, a mostly quiet neighborhood of stark neo-Classical-style buildings also known as Neubau. In recent years, the area has become increasingly synonymous with a youthful energy, most notably captured in the […]
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) have announced plans to create pedestrian-only streets in the city’s downtown areas, according to a VietnamNet Bridge report.Under the scheme, areas around Nguyen Hue Road and the western bank of the Saigon River will be closed to traffic from 6pm until midnight of Saturdays and Sundays. The first […]
QANTAS has lost control of crucial maintenance staff and their qualifications, the airline safety regulator has warned, in the latest strong criticism of the airline’s safety performance.The unusually frank comments from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, in a directive to the airline, were in response to the discovery of “fake” engineers who were doing highly […]
Tourism Queensland’s Best Job In the World campaign has been slammed as the worst run contest ever by shattered hopefuls prevented from submitting their applications by repeated website failures.Fifty people, from more than 34,000 applicants worldwide, were this morning shortlisted for the $150,000 “island caretaker” job on the Great Barrier Reef - a marketing stunt […]
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The long-delayed rail link connected Bangkok city centre with Suvarnabhumi airport will open on 12 August this year, according to a Bangkok Post report.The 28km track is 96% complete, the report quotes developers as saying, adding that the service from the airport to the central Makkasan terminal would cost THB150 (US$4.30) for a non-stop journey.
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Data from Macau’s Statistics and Census Service have shown that the city registered 501,535 visitor arrivals in package tours in December 2008, up by 16.2% from a year earlier. Visitors from Mainland China (346,570) and Taiwan (37,106) increased by 18.4% and 32.8% year-on-year respectively, while those from Hong Kong (32,534) decreased by 10.8%. For the […]
A video of a hysterical passenger screaming at airline staff and writhing on the floor after missing a flight at Hong Kong airport has become a YouTube hit.By Sunday, the three-minute clip of the furious woman had racked up close to 40,000 hits in three days on the video-sharing site.The video starts with the screaming […]