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 Taiwan's hot springs are popular with visitorsOne of the many engaging aspects of Taipei is its excellent transportation system. The Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) system, which has nine lines and covers more than 100 kilometres, is fast and very clean - on one trip I witnessed an employee dusting the grab bars. Another plus: Signage and announcements are in English as well as Mandarin. So it's easy to venture to the Beitou Hot Springs area in the north of the city for a day trip, since they're not much more than half an hour from Taipei Main Station.
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 Washington museum to welcome space shuttle DiscoveryDiscovery on Thursday will become the first spaceship of the retired U.S. shuttle fleet to enter its permanent home as a museum artifact, marking a solemn end to the 30-year U.S. space flight program.
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 Boston marathon braces for punishing heatOrganizers of Monday’s Boston Marathon have put extra safety measures in place and are encouraging some runners to sit out the event entirely on what is projected to be one of the hottest days in the race’s 116-year history.
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 Penang's famed food hawkers see tradition lose steamSoon Chuan Choo has spent 45 years sweating next to a sizzling curbside wok in Malaysia’s heat, frying up flat noodles mixed with chilli sauce, prawns, tofu, cockles, egg and sprouts.
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 Beijing grapples with Olympics legacy four years onFour years after Beijing hosted a spectacular summer Olympics, China’s bustling capital sees vastly improved public transport and infrastructure, but many of the venues built for the event languish unloved, underused and draining public finances.
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 Poodle's airport killing sparks anger in ChinaChinese netizens angrily condemned Wednesday the beating to death of a poodle at an airport in southern China because it "threatened" air safety after apparently escaping from its kennel on a plane.
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 Six Seoul sitesIt’s no coincidence that the symbol of South Korea is the yin and yang. It’s a country that balances deep tradition with unbridled enthusiasm for all things modern and technological. Here are six sites in Seoul you shouldn’t miss, five yin, one definitely yang.
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 Temple stays are a unique way to discover KoreaIt's sometime before 5 a.m., still dark and chilly. We are walking slowly in a single line, maybe 45 of us, all dressed identically in baggy, grey pants and long, loose, grey vests.
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 South Korean host of 2018 Winter Olympics has a long way to goI'm peering over the edge of the Olympic ski-jump platform here, hundreds of feet above ground, shuddering at the track’s suicidal 45-degree descent. It’s the end of summer, and the tower affords a commanding view of the area known as Keunteo, or the Big Land Valley, with its lushly green fir and pine trees and neatly rowed potato fields framed by several distant mountain peaks.
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 Malaysia has it all, except snowThere are lots of ways to describe it, but Malaysia simply is ... special.
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 Top humbug holidays for Christmas avoidersNot everyone thinks this is the season to be jolly. There are some Scrooges out there who would rather all this ho-ho festive stuff would just disappear into a deep, dark cave. If you are one of those people, here are six places where you can take refuge:
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 70 years later in Pearl HarborSeventy years ago this month, one of the world’s great paradises became one of the world’s most hellish flash points.
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 There's no place like IndiaI've been dreaming of going to India for years. Due to its sheer size and wanting to see more than the just the superficial, I wanted to spend at least a month to do it justice. I finally did.
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 Websites link travellers to tour guidesThere are two types of travellers: Those who like to explore on their own and those who like to hire tour guides.
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 Riding the bike trails of TaiwanCanadians could learn a lot about cycling from a trip to this tiny island
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 On the wings of the dragonThe Drukair Airbus glided smoothly to the runway of Guwahati, on the plains of Assam, India. My daughter, son-in-law and I were the only passengers to disembark along with an Indian couple - he reminded me of a young Omar Sharif and she was elegant in sari. The 60 or so other passengers went on to Paro in west Bhutan. Perhaps they had read the guide books warning to only visit Eastern Bhutan if you have a sense of humour and are prepared for a lack of hot water and western toilets or maybe because tourists could only exit Guwahati - not enter - until the last year or so.
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 Thai "ladyboy" flight attendants take to the skiesThai transsexual ladyboys are taking to the air as flight attendants for a new airline, a move that some said could be a key step towards still broader acceptance in a nation where they are already unusually visible.
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 Marvellous magnitude: A path to the Pasadena areaBegin your explorations of the western edge of California's San Gabriel Valley and the area near it with these 10 micro-itineraries for Pasadena and environs.
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 Web-show host offers insightful and fun look at Thai cultureWhen Daniel Fraser moved to Bangkok a little more than decade ago to start an adventure travel company, he never expected to become a local celebrity.
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 Eating your way through the streets of BangkokBangkok is like your favourite e the one you carry a secret torch for, the one that could have been - should have been - the best thing that ever happened to you and was wrong for all the right reasons.
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 Airlines face EU pollution bill January 1Airlines will have to buy pollution permits to fly in Europe from January 1 under a disputed EU system to fight climate change, but slumping carbon market prices could make the bill less painful.
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 U.S. cancels Thailand travel alertThe United States on Wednesday canceled a travel alert for Thailand, saying that conditions have improved in the month since the kingdom was hit by its worst floods in a half-century.
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 London's mayor says Britain needs a new hub airportBritain faces a period of economic stagnation unless a new international airport is built in south-east England, London Mayor Boris Johnson said on Monday.
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 UN body opposes EU's plan for airline emissionsThe United Nations body responsible for civil aviation weighed in against the European Union's emissions trading scheme on Wednesday, increasing pressure on the EU to back down in what threatens to become a serious trade dispute.
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 Tranquillity in the midst of a bustling cityWhat a place, what an experience. I've been coming to Aman resorts for 15 years; this was my friend's first Aman visit. But we both reacted the same way: unforgettable.
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