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  • Cooperation can boost Myanmars tourism

    tourism said. "We have regulated our foreign investment law, which is very user-friendly to international investors," U Htay Aung, minister of hotels and tourism, told China Daily. Singapore and Thailand now top the list of foreign investors in Myanmar's tourism ...

  • Torture tourism is reminder of cruelty through ages

    You may think that the endless security lines at the airport are torturous - but they are child’s play compared with what heretics and criminals faced in the Middle Ages. Medieval torture was used both to extract confessions and to punish the convicted before execution. Torturers had a huge tool kit with which to practice their bleak black art. Nowadays, ridiculous torture exhibits are ...

  • Airbus shows off Air New Zealands A320 sharklets

    Le BOURGET, France - Air New Zealand's new livery was front and center at the Paris Air Show this week, but that's not the primary reason the carrier's Airbus A320 was on display. The Airbus A320 ...

  • Worlds Most Spectacular Dog Vacation

    What to do with the family dog when vacation time comes is a common conundrum. Most dogs end up in a kennel. Some with a family friend. Just one will end up on a $73,000 luxury vacation of its own. In conjunction with the Paw Seasons luxury dog hotel in Bristol, ...

  • Report Carnival sues shipyard that took in Triumph

    Carnival is blaming BAE Systems for the damage, according to Mobile's Press-Register Cruise giant Carnival is suing the Alabama shipyard that took in the Carnival Triumph earlier this year after it lost power at sea, Mobile's ...


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Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Paul Blart: Mall Cop

There is always something inherently amusing about a person who takes his or her job too seriously, especially when said person is a security guard at a suburban shopping mall who spends his days cruising around on a Segway PT breaking up disputes over bras at Victorias Secret and t ... ...

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  • 12 ways to protect your family on vacation

    "The Safety Chick" Kathleen Baty shows off a variety of products you can use to protect your family while on vacation, such as a passport made with material that ensures thieves can't access your personal information, a cell phone hot spot to prevent browsing the web on public Wi-Fi and door anchors to avoid a hotel ...

  • Swimming holidays Come on in the waters lovely

    swimtrek.com ) was launched 10 years ago by Channel swimmer and coach, Simon Murie. Then, the number of people booking a swimming holiday was in the hundreds. This year, Swimtrek expects to take around 4,000 swimmers on holidays ranging from a week-long island-hopping trip around the Sporades in Greece to shorter breaks in Mallorca and ...

  • Tourism can solidify China’s claims around beautiful Xisha

    An eye-catching tourism cruise to the Xisha Islands, which China disputes with Vietnam, has been running for about two months. After its maiden tour in late April, Coconut Princess, the luxury ship that has carried hundreds of tourists and staff so far, is becoming a symbol of Xisha tourism. With the tour route being normalized on a regular basis, some questions have been raised, especially in ...

  • United adds spending threshold to elite-status qualifying

    United today announced that it will add a minimum spending threshold in order for its customers to qualify for elite frequent-flier status. Beginning in 2014, customers will need to spend at least $2,500 on United-issued tickets in order to qualify for United's lowest tier of elite status. Passengers still must fly 25,000 miles per year to reach that "Premier Silver" threshold. ...

  • 11-Year-Old Zachary Maxwells Hidden Camera Documentary Exposes School Lunch

    It’s the documentary that audiences and film critics are eating up. In a covert six-month mission to expose the inside world of school lunches, 11-year-old Zachary Maxwell made ';Yuck: A 4th Grader’s Documentary About School Lunch'; when he was a fourth-grader at a New York City public school. Armed with hidden cameras, the precocious filmmaker went undercover to document ...

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