JUST a few years ago, you could almost hear tumbleweeds blowing through this city, the capital of Qatar. These days, any remaining tumbleweeds are colliding with the giant skyscrapers and sprawling megaprojects that are exploding from the sands. Still plump with petrodollars despite the continuing economic rollercoaster, the home of the Al Jazeera network has […]
EMIRATES says it has total confidence in the A380 Airbus and that changes to the delivery of its aircraft order has nothing to do with maintenance issues.Emirates’ Australian vice-president, Stephen Pearse, told BusinessDay that both the airline and its customers were happy with the A380, despite reports of burnt electric cables, missing fittings and engine […]
Think of Costa Rica as a Rorschach test for travelers. Outlined on a map, it has no recognizable shape. But enclosed in tropical lines of latitude, with appropriate squiggles for mountains, coasts and interior borders, it’s an inkblot for projecting travel fantasies. Beach lovers trace the craggy coasts and see hammocks swinging in the sunset […]
Oil-rich Abu Dhabi may have become an opulent oasis in the desert, but the forest of high-rise buildings that scrape its perpetual blue sky only hint at things to come.This capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a fishing and pearling village of mud and palm-frond huts until oil was discovered here 50 years ago, […]
According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, airlines and travel sites are reporting that advance bookings for Easter are on par with, and in some cases higher than, last year’s figures.Virgin Blue spokesperson, Amanda Bolger, said her airline was experiencing the same level of bookings as last year, with flights to the Sunshine Coast, Gold […]
Rolf Glaser zips his motorbike up the twisting alleyways of Vidigal slum, past a bunch of cheerful, gun-packing drug traffickers, and emerges at a cliffside plateau next to some demolished shacks.A scrawny dog barks angrily from a nearby rooftop.This, the German developer says with a straight face, could be Rio de Janeiro’s next tourist hotspot.“Can […]
NEW YORK : Three years ago the wine panel reviewed reds from the Bierzo region of Spain for the first time. We were enchanted with the haunting, complex aromas of the mencía grape, which is used to such wonderful effect only in northwest Spain.Since Bierzo has emerged to the rest of the world as a […]
India’s first private biodiversity park will open in Coimbatore district in June. The Times of India reported that the INR100 million (US$1.9 million) Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park will give wildlife enthusiasts an opportunity to observe wild animals at the 28-hectare site.
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A Yale University student from Ohio has filed a lawsuit seeking US$1 million (A$1.5 million) from US Airways for a video game console he says was taken from his luggage.Twenty-one-year-old Jesse Maiman alleges that during a flight from New Haven, Conneticuit to Cincinnati in December, his Xbox 360 with a specialized hard drive disappeared from […]
Hong Kong International Airport(HKIA) handled 3.4 million passenger trips and moved 198,000 tons of cargo in February, representing decreases of 13.7 percent and 19.7 percent from the same month of 2008 respectively. Year-on- year, aircraft movements declined 10.5 percent to 21,235, said the HKIA in a press released Sunday. Both local resident and visitor traffic were […]