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If Singapore is Lonely Planet’s No. 1 destination, where are the tourists?
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/07/2015
» Singapore was ranked as Lonely Planet’s top 2015 destination. That hasn’t helped the island draw more tourists so far this year.
Alarm sounded over Myanmar's betel habit
AFP, Published on 27/07/2015
» Plying his trade in the seemingly eternal gridlock of Myanmar's now booming commercial hub, he is more than used to spending long days on the roads and <em>kun ja</em> — better known as betel nut or quid — is the one thing that keeps him going.
S.Africa's top poacher-hunting pooch flies into battle
AFP, Published on 28/07/2015
» KRUGER NATIONAL PARK (SOUTH AFRICA) - Barking and snarling in his cage, "Killer" -- South Africa's most successful poacher-catching canine -- looks ready for another helicopter mission tracking down armed hunters who slaughter rhinos for their horns.
Smooth piste for Beijing's 2022 bid
AFP, Published on 30/07/2015
» China came of age as an Olympic power when it hosted the spectacular Beijing 2008, a display of the unlimited resources and political will some say are essential to its bid for the 2022 Winter Games.
With Asia's dating apps, love by numbers or chaperone
AFP, Published on 29/07/2015
» HONG KONG - Move over Tinder -- a crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the course of romance.
Sick or swim: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Associated Press, Published on 31/07/2015
» RIO DE JANEIRO – Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human faeces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Trikes bring order to the old town
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 01/08/2015
» ‘I felt embarrassed at first to be riding in an officer’s uniform,” said Pol Sen Sgt Maj Pramote Paotapoo as he manoeuvred his new “official vehicle” into the small streets of the old town area while on patrol.
Island adopts bio-gas
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 01/08/2015
» Living on a small and sparsely populated island in Phangnga, the locals have found it difficult to receive any help from authorities. But the hardship has also taught them to stand on their own feet.
The ultra-royalist who wants to defend your human rights
Spectrum, Published on 02/08/2015
» Boworn Yasintorn, 63, was not entirely surprised when he found out he was among seven people nominated for the National Human Rights Commission last week.
Bangkok’s baffling booze ban
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 02/08/2015
» By 7pm, the six employees of the Hunsa bar had gathered around the white wooden table to eat their home-made kanom jeen, a dish consisting of rice vermicelli served with curry.