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Malaysia eyes medical-tourism crown
Reuters, Published on 30/07/2014
» KUALA LUMPUR — Muslim tourists have long chosen Malaysia, its beaches and its malls as a holiday destination thanks to cultural affinity. Now the Southeast Asian country, where Muslims make up about 60% of the population, wants to parlay its visitor dividend into a bid to overtake its neighbours for the world's medical-tourism crown.
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Nepal resumes search for lost hikers
Reuters, Published on 16/10/2014
» KATHMANDU, Nepal — Mountain-rescue teams resumed their search for dozens of missing climbers on Thursday after unseasonal blizzards and avalanches killed at least 20 people in an area that is a popular trekking route with tourists.
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60 tourists stranded at Malay resort
Reuters, Published on 24/12/2014
» KUALA LUMPUR — Nearly 60 foreign tourists are among almost 100 people stranded at a resort in a Malaysian national park lashed by its heaviest rainfall in more than four decades, staff said on Wednesday as authorities sent boats and a helicopter to rescue them.
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Tensions rise after 'weak' response to Nepal quake
Reuters, Published on 29/04/2015
» KATHMANDU – Nepali officials conceded they had made mistakes in their initial response to a massive earthquake that has killed more than 5,000 people, as survivors stranded in remote villages and towns waited for aid and relief to arrive on Wednesday.
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Thailand too dependent on Chinese tourists — MasterCard
Reuters, Published on 08/06/2015
» SINGAPORE — Asia's most visited cities, such as Bangkok and Singapore, are also the most vulnerable to declines in arrivals and tourism revenues because of their lack of diversification in visitors and growing dependence on Chinese tourists.
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Armed Tunisian police swarm tourist towns
Reuters, Published on 28/06/2015
» Hundreds of armed police patrolled the streets of Tunisia's beach resorts on Sunday and the government said it will deploy hundreds more inside hotels after the Islamist militant attack in Sousse that killed 39 foreigners, mostly Britons.
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China arrests British, S. African tourists over 'terror' videos
Reuters, Published on 15/07/2015
» BEIJING — A group of 20 foreign tourists including Britons, South Africans and an Indian national, have been arrested in northern China, according to reports by Britain's Foreign Office and a South African charity, on suspicion some had ties to a "terror group".
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17 CCTV cameras tracked Koh Tao backpackers' final hours
Reuters, Published on 22/07/2015
» KOH SAMUI — The final hours of two British backpackers killed on Koh Tao last year were tracked by more than a dozen security cameras, a court was told during the resumption of the trial of two Myanmar men accused of their murder.
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Koh Tao murder defendants denied UK police report
Reuters, Published on 26/08/2015
» LONDON — Two Myanmar workers on trial for the murder of two British tourists on Koh Tao should not be given access to a confidential British police report about the case, a British judge ruled on Tuesday.
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The changing tastes of world's top spenders
Business, Reuters, Published on 19/10/2015
» Chinese luxury consumers are spending more on ready-to-wear and new labels, a notable shift in the behaviour and tastes of the world's top spenders, according to a Reuters survey of retailers in the United States, Asia and Europe.
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