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Travel
- Sunday, 29 January 2012
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Author traces Rimbaud's mysterious Java journey
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...
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Kuala Lumpur opens KLCC pedestrian walkway
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...
- Sunday, 20 November 2011
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Passengers pay extra in order to fly
AIRLINES have already begun charging for food, drinks, seat assignments and baggage. Now one is demanding that passengers cough up extra cash for fuel.Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded Thursday in Amritsar, India,...
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Lavatory traps pilot
A PILOT accidentally locked himself in the bathroom on a flight to New York City and touched off a brief hijacking terror scare.The incident underscored the fears about air travel that linger more than a decade after 9/11.The captain of Delta Flight...
- Sunday, 23 October 2011
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Malaysia becomes India's biggest tourist market in Asean region
MALAYSIA has emerged as the biggest tourism market in the Asean region for India-bound traffic.This assessment was given by Rajesh Talwar, director of Singapore-based IndiaTourism, India's official tourism promotion agency, in an interview with...
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Meet the Gauls - minus the dolmens
FEISTY forest-dwellers in winged helmets, with a fondness for roast boar, strong wine and Roman-bashing. That is the pen portrait of the Gaul as summed up by the pint-sized comic hero Asterix — and it is wrong from start to finish.Drawing on...
- Sunday, 16 October 2011
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In future, Britons to leave heirs with 'digital inheritance'
BRITONS are now including internet passwords in wills to ensure their online music, photographs, videos and other digital data are not lost when they die, a British study showed.Around 11 per cent of the 2,000 British people surveyed by the Centre...
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Migrating swans of Anchorage
ALASKA sees plenty of visitors, but few draw local paparazzi like the guests that fly south every October: trumpeter and tundra swans.Hundreds of swan pairs, some with gray juveniles, stop at lakes and ponds on their annual fall migration, drawing...
- Sunday, 9 October 2011
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End of the road for Mumbai's horse-drawn carriages?
ELABORATELY- DECORATED horse-drawn carriages are a symbol of the Indian city of Mumbai, have starred in several Bollywood films and become a tourist attraction in their own right.But their days could be numbered because of allegations of widespread...
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Archeologists deny Taj Mahal 'collapse' claims
ARCHEOLOGISTS overseeing the upkeep of the Taj Mahal denied on Friday a press report that said the iconic structure could collapse in as little as two years because of its weakened foundations.The white marble mausoleum, known as the "monument...
