Travel
Sunday, 20 May 2012
WHILST our youths flock to shopping malls with air-conditioning and other modern facilities, some of Brunei's senior citizens whose income allows only for a small and down-to-earth booth continue their daily lives in Tamu Kianggeh (Kianggeh Market)....
DURING a recent trip to Sumatra's Lingga Island, I got the opportunity to take a closer look at the relics of the Riau-Lingga Sultanate located near the city of Daik.The Riau-Lingga Sultanate which once extended across southeast Sumatra, the Riau...
Sunday, 13 May 2012
THE World Expo was launched on Friday in Yeosu, South Korea, a small coastal city on the edge of the Korean peninsula.With US$11.1 billion (around $13.8 billion) invested in the project and high expectations to bring economic gain and infrastructure...
Sunday, 6 May 2012
A VISIT to Thailand's city of Haadyai would not be complete without sampling the variety of seafood available in the city. Muslim visitors from around the region will easily be able to find halal food in Haadyai, as 80 per cent of its inhabitants...
Sunday, 29 April 2012
EUROPEANS in white bath robes saunter across the marble lobby of a luxury hotel on the Tunisian island of Djerba, heading for a spot of relaxation at the spa or a few hours' soaking up the sun on the resort's pristine beaches.At breakfast, the...
Sunday, 22 April 2012
COVERING 361 million sq km, approximately 71 per cent of Earth's surface is covered in water. Although it is 'divided' into separate oceans, these interconnected bodies of saline water have been referred to as the world ocean, or the...
Sunday, 15 April 2012
CHINA'S most famous royal garden, the Summer Palace, will usher in advanced technologies such as real-time monitoring to collect data as part of its world heritage protection efforts.The Summer Palace World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Centre was...
TYRES squealed, engines revved and cars clogged the streets. The surrounding sky-scrappers blocked out the sun. Keen to escape the chaos, I flagged down a taxi on Adriatico Street in Malate."Kamusta. The Super 8 Ferry which way?" I asked...
Sunday, 8 April 2012
SARAWAK traditional headgear (pic) is making a comeback this year. Sarawak Economic Corporation Development (SEDC) and Leisure Group of Properties along with the Malaysia Handicraft Development Corporation Sarawak are making the headgear popular...
Sunday, 1 April 2012
RESIDENTS of the Northern Hemisphere are downright giddy this time of year with the official arrival of spring.In honour of longer days, sunshine and the tantalising prospect of summer on the horizon, Cheapflights.com has chosen its top 10 list of...
Sunday, 4 March 2012
JAPAN's first low-cost carrier (LCC) Peach Aviation Limited started operation on Thursday, aiming at providing service styled as "cute and cool", reflecting the latest Japanese cultural quality, Shinichi Inoue, Chief Executive Officer of...
Sunday, 26 February 2012
THE common local saying "on the waves of March, old women go out to sea", means the sea is often calm in March, making it perfect to venture out to fish, or simply for pleasure.Now, as March swiftly approaches, the waters of the Nam Du...
JAPAN is seeing the number of tourists returning to the land of the rising sun growing faster than expected, says Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO) president Ryoichi Matsuyama. !"Major tourist attractions have resumed full regular...
THAILAND has become a popular filming location among movie makers, with over 50 requests to use Thailand as a filming location in just one month, the Thai Department of Tourism has said. In January alone, the office received 56 requests from movie...
Sunday, 19 February 2012
LUSH tropical landscapes, intricate ancient temples, long stretches of beach fringed with palm trees, and traditional dances both graceful and furious are all part of the charms of this resort island of Bali that keep visitors coming.Yet venture...
COVERING an area of 810 square kilometres, Perlis is the smallest state in Malaysia, and it only takes an hour to drive from one end to the other.With a small population of less that a quarter million, the state with the "The Beautiful and...
KOLKATA, once the capital of British India, is slowly being painted blue the favourite colour of the fiery new chief minister of the local state who has ordered a makeover.Mamata Banerjee came to power in West Bengal last year after 34 years of...
Sunday, 12 February 2012
MALAYSIA recorded 24,714,324 tourist arrivals last year, with tourism receipts climbing to RM58.3 billion (around 424.2 billion), a remarkable notch over the previous year.In 2010, 24,577,196 arrivals were recorded with RM56.5 billion in tourism...
Sunday, 29 January 2012
KUALA LUMPUR recently opened a new tourist attraction a fully air-conditioned pedestrian walkway linking the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) and Bukit Bintang, two major retail and tourism spots in the Malaysian capital.Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak...
IN 1876 FRENCH poet Arthur Rimbaud joined the Dutch colonial army, sailed to the Indonesian island of Java and then deserted and fled into the jungle. No one knows what happened next.More than 130 years later, an American author followed in the...
