A SOUTH KOREAN court yesterday sentenced a Chinese tourist to 10 months in jail for throwing four Molotov cocktails at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Jan. 8 to demand an apology for his maternal grandmother. Liu Qiang, a 36-year-old man from Guangzhou, was wearing a T-shirt with the characters “apologize” at the time. Read article
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According to a report in the newspaper China Daily, the 100-day crackdown will see foreigners caught without valid paperwork issued with fines, detained and even expelled from the country. Employers and landlords who knowingly hire or house illegal foreigners will also face penalties, with employers liable to bear the cost of the foreigners’ deportation, the […]
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The unit suffered the accident near the Jomsom airport, one of the most dangerous in the world.It carrying three crew and 18 passengers, 16 of whom are Indians on their way to a popular pilgrimage center. Read Article
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The tourist administration of Yunnan province is looking into complaints by five tourists who wrote an open letter to a top official complaining about a terrible travel experience in the province. “The trip gave us nothing but unhappiness and all of us felt afraid, ripped off and disgraced,” the tourists said in a letter to […]
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PANMUNJOM, Korea — Soldiers from rival North and South Korea eye one another across a thin strip of no man’s land that — just barely — keeps their armies apart. The tension, they insist on both sides, is palpable. Read Article
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British tourist arrested in China ‘for sexual assault’ A British tourist has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a local woman in Beijing.A video of a British tourist sexually assaulting a local woman in Beijing has gone viral in China, prompting angry calls for him to be charged with attempted rape. The 24-year-old man was […]
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As a follow-up to my May 5 posting, concerning the kidnapping of Nayati Shamelin Moodliar, 12, a Dutch citizen who was released on May 3 after a ransom payment was delivered to the abductors, Malaysian police have arrested five suspects in the case, although the mastermind in the case has reportedly fled to Europe. COMMENT: […]
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(ANSAmed) – NICOSIA, MAY 10 – Tourists and travelers in Cyprus could face a day of misery on Monday as local taxi drivers have threatened to block the entrance to Larnaca airport as part of their ongoing complaints about ”threats to their livelihood”. The action falls on a day which sees thousands of Scandinavian tourists […]
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Authorities in South Korea are investigating a batch of pills which are said to contain human flesh. Officials believe the tablets, which are purportedly used to boost stamina, have been smuggled in from China. It is claimed they contain extracts of dead human fetuses. The first case was uncovered in South Korea last August and […]
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The airliner Sukhoi Superjet 100 has lost radio contact with the airport of Jakarta has disappeared from the radar screens of the airfield after falling 10,000 feet of altitude (3,000 meters) to 6,000 feet (about 3,000 meters) flying over a mountainous area about 100 kilometers from Jakarta, as reported by responsible civil aviation of Indonesia […]
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