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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
Earthquake death toll rising in Pakistan, Afghanistan
Reuters, Published on 27/10/2015
» KABUL/ISLAMABAD - Rescuers on Tuesday rushed to deliver relief aid to victims of a massive earthquake that hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan, killing at least 275 people over a wide swath of mostly mountainous terrain.
Japan's temples seek tourists
Business, Reuters, Published on 04/01/2016
» EIHEIJI, JAPAN — Deep in a forest near Japan's western shore, a 13th-century Buddhist temple where Steve Jobs once dreamed of becoming a Zen monk has teamed up with a Tokyo skyscraper builder to seek the commercial enlightenment of foreign tourist dollars.
Volcanos dump ash on Indonesia tourist arrivals
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2016
» JAKARTA -- Indonesia's foreign tourist arrivals rose 1.7% in November from a year earlier, compared to a 2.1% annual increase in October, the statistics bureau said on Monday.