Maoist rebels yesterday seized a train carrying several hundred passengers in eastern India. Up to 250 rebels took over the train as it travelled through Jharkhand. All passengers were later released. Source: BBC.
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They are atolls of legend and almost inaccessible.This Christmas though, magical Penrhyn, Manihiki and Pukapuka in the northern Cook Islands will be on a regular air route out of Samoa.Air Rarotonga will link up with the islands through Apia, allowing easy access to the expatriate communities in Australia and New Zealand.Currently the airline services the […]
When Paul Wright boards a motorcoach with 40-some coreligionists for a tour of Ireland or Norway or Italy, he looks forward to seeing historic churches and gorgeous scenery. But what he enjoys most, Wright says, is the “fellowship with those of like precious faith.”“We don’t have to be in a church to enjoy the Lord’s […]
At a plush Hong Kong airport hotel, the only sign of activity comes from the dining-room where a queue of locals fill up their plates at a dinner buffet offered at a promotional rate to Hong Kong residents.Before the slowdown, the hotel lobby would have been filled with business travellers working on laptops or having […]
The Great Wall of China is even greater than once thought.A two-year government mapping study has uncovered new sections of the ancient Chinese monument that total about 290 kilometres, according to a report posted on the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Web site.Using mapping technologies such as infrared range finders and GPS devices, experts […]
A teenage British boy with a form of autism is stranded in Australia because he is too scared to travel by air or sea home to England.Thomas Hill’s family moved to Sydney in January 2008 to start a new life but decided to return recently because they were homesick.But 16-year-old Thomas, who has been diagnosed […]
A teenage British boy with a form of autism is stranded in Australia because he is too scared to travel by air or sea home to England.Thomas Hill’s family moved to Sydney in January 2008 to start a new life but decided to return recently because they were homesick.But 16-year-old Thomas, who has been diagnosed […]
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Crikey, I thought, as the crowd on the hotel terrace began to dance on the tables and a guest at the party lit another joint: if this is Crystal’s idea of a family hotel, I wonder what the company’s version of Club 18-30 is like?The location was the Hotel Le Viking, a mile […]
The Preah Vihear temple, which lies on the disputed border of Thailand and Cambodia, has seen a 30.1% drop in arrivals in the first quarter of 2009. The Phnom Penh Post reported that Preah Vihear welcomed just 16,700 tourists in the first three months of the year, down from 23,900 in Q1 2008.However provincial tourism […]
The Dark Lord might not have liked Middle-earth and now Lord of the Rings fanatics conclude the New Zealand government feels the same.Kiwi Rings fans have lost their latest bid to have local landmarks named after place names from the country’s Oscar-winning trilogy.A holiday park operator from Fiordland, in New Zealand’s deep south, had proposed […]