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  • Tourism Minister announces new campaign to promote Himalayas

    Union Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi today announced the launch of a new campaign to publicise the tourism potential of the Himalayas and promote this incredible tourist product internationally. To be called "777 days of the Indian Himalayas", the campaign will have a twofold objective, one to attract more international tourists to India during the lean summer season, and second, to remind ...

  • U.S. Marine Alex Minsky Returns From War as Underwear Model

    Move over Mark Wahlberg and David Beckham, there is a new underwear model making waves, and he is more than just a guy on a billboard with a rocking body. Alex Minsky is a 24-year-old U.S. Marine whose right leg was amputated by a roadside bomb in 2009 while he was serving in Afghanistan.  Minsky spent 47 days in a coma and suffered traumatic brain injuries and severe burns to his body ...

  • AIRSHOW-Singapore Airlines orders 30 more Airbus A350s

    PARIS, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:29am EDT PARIS, June 19 (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines has placed a firm order for 30 Airbus A350-900 aircraft worth $8.6 billion at list prices, with options for 20 more of the jetliners. The airline could convert the options into larger A350-1000s under the terms of the deal, Airbus said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday. The carrier now has 70 ...

  • Intl Seminar on Journalism and Tourism Concludes Discussions

    Havana, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) A summary on Cuban tourism and gastronomic details end today the International Seminar on Journalism and Tourism, which now goes to the tours of interest sites, such as the Varadero beach resort. After three days of discussions at the Jose Marti International Institute of Journalism in the capital, the 48 participants from eight Latin American countries will visit ...

  • FEATURE-Security risk clouds Libyas tourism ambitions

    Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:00am EDT * Libya looking at diversifying revenues via tourism * Industry professionals say sector neglected under Gaddafi * Precarious security keeps foreign visitors away By Marie-Louise Gumuchian SABRATHA, Libya, June 19 (Reuters) - The ruins of a grandiose Roman theatre behind them, two foreigners taking pictures in the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha make a rare sight ...


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Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant

When I think back on watching this film, two thoughts immediately cross my mind. First, it was a terribly unpleasant experience, and secondly, it was a brilliant. Those two thoughts, while sounding a bit contradictory at first, are intricately related. How could film depict this kind of subject matter without being unsettling? The real victory in "Bad Lieutenant" is how it is so horrifying without ... ...

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  • Omran reveals plans for two 5-star Muscat hotels

    Omran, the tourism development and investment arm of Oman, is planning to build two new five-star hotels in Muscat, according to chief executive Eng Wael al Lawati. Speaking at a media briefing on Omran’s ongoing and upcoming development projects, al Lawati said that the first project, W Hotel, will be located next to the InterContinental Hotel in Muscat. According ...

  • Egypt tourism minister resigns over Luxor governors terror links

    Egypt 's tourism minister has resigned in protest over the appointment as Luxor governor of a member of a hardline Islamist group associated with terrorists who killed at least 58 tourists in 1997.Hisham Zaazou, whose resignation has not yet been accepted by Egypt's prime minister, ...

  • Dubai Hotels Reduce Rates during the Summer Season

    The average rate for a five star hotel room during the summer months is expected to be somewhere between $200 and $90, while the percentage of occupancy is going to descend dramatically by 70 to even 90 percent. The slowest period for Dubai hotels is expected to be, as usual, July when the city will see the lowest levels of occupancy not only because of the few people travelling during Ramadan, ...

  • Union of Concerned Scientists Northwest Airlines Asks Clear Channel to Pull Science Groups Anti-Nuclear-Weapons Ad in Minneapolis Airport

    Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, has taken on a new role of censor. Yesterday it asked Clear Channel Communications to remove a Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) anti-nuclear-weapons billboard in the Minneapolis airport ...

  • 10 unique European boutique hotels

    The term "boutique hotel" can be applied to a host of very different properties -- whether quaint or trendy, traditional or avant-garde. But they all have at least one thing in common: They're intimate, and fewer rooms means fewer guests get to experience them, so staying at one can feel like discovering a secret hideaway. But secrets are no fun if you don't get share them -- ...

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