The body of a Finnish tourist killed this week in a speedboat collision near to Male’ will be repatriated “as soon as possible”, the Honorary Consul of Finland in the Maldives has said. An as yet unidentified male from Finland, who was said to be holidaying in the country with his wife, was killed after an express speedboat service to the island of Hulhumale’ collided with another vessel belonging to the Bandos Island Resort and Spa on Sunday (December 2). Read article
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The Philippines’ move not to stamp Chinese passports in protest of the South China Sea map on the travel document will likely have no impact on tourist arrivals, a trade association said Wednesday. “It will not impact much on the Department of Tourism targets since other markets are outperforming,” said Aileen Clemente, Philippine Travel Agencies […]
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A 30-year-old Japanese tourist visiting Surat Thani apparently committed a ritualistic Hara-Kiri suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach in his hotel room. Police believe he had been pick pocketed, and speculated that the disturbed foreigner decide to die by the traditional way of the Samurai. a report of a foreign tourist killing himself in […]
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QUETTA, Pakistan — Kidnappers have freed a prominent ophthalmologist in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province. Relatives of Saeed Ahmed Khan announced his release on November 28. Read article
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BEIRUT, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Syrian rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad just outside Damascus on Thursday, restricting access to its international airport, and the Dubai-based Emirates airline suspended flights to the Syrian capital. A rebel fighter who identified himself as Abu Omar, a member of the Jund Allah brigade, told Reuters that […]
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Hong Kong (HKSAR) – The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is today (November 26) conducting a joint investigation with the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) into a suspected outbreak of respiratory disease involving five AFCD staff working in the New Territories North Animal Management Centre (NTNAMC) in Sheung Shui. […]
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A last minute change of direction has saved the tiny Pacific nation of Palau from a direct hit by a category 5 “super typhoon”. The worst was expected as the typhoon with winds of 250 km/h headed for the nation’s islands. Meterologists expected much of the nation which sits less than 3 meters (10 feet) […]
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Five people in Nanjing in East China’s Jiangsu province have been diagnosed with scrub typhus, a disease that killed two females in Guangzhou this year. Four patients were treated at Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University. Wang Xihua, deputy director of the hospital’s department of respiratory diseases, said scrub typhus is a type of acute […]
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Veterinary experts are suspecting an outbreak of the Kysasanur Forest Disease (KFD), popularly known as monkey fever, in Maddur range of the Bandipur Tiger Reserve bordering Mysore district. It is also reported to have affected humans. The tiger reserve authorities have reported deaths of eight bonnet macaques and two common langurs; and it has been […]
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A British tourist has drowned after jumping into the sea to escape a local gang during a holiday in Thailand, where he had gone to celebrate his recent release from prison according to dailymail.co.uk. Patrick Molloy, 28, from Cambridge, leapt into the water in Pattaya, eastern Thailand, alongside friends James Wilks, 29, and Jerry Robson, […]
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