Earlier today (April 11), the Tokyo High Court upheld the life sentence of Tatsuya Ichihashi, 32, a Japanese national who raped and killed Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, a young British teacher who taught Ichihashi English in 2007, and later buried her battered body in a sand-filled bathtub. When Ms. Hawker disappeared, leads eventually led police to Ichihashi’s apartment in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, to find her naked body bound at the wrists and ankles in a bathtub filled with sand on Ichihashi’s apartment balcony. Read article
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DUBAI // A female driver assaulted a tourist who made an offensive gesture at her, a court heard today. Read article
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One person was killed and 21 others injured when a bus carrying Swiss tourists crashed near the Turkish resort of Antalya. Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry said one Swiss tourist died and 19 others were injured, two of them seriously. Read article
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A survey of over 35,000 professionals in the Gulf found that that the UAE has the highest expat retention rate, with 81 per cent of foreigners living and working there having no desire to leave Although the country was hit hard by the recession, the combination of “a rebound in business confidence, declining rents and […]
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YANGON, Myanmar – (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that he would support suspending the European Union’s economic sanctions on Myanmar, which are to be reviewed by the end of the month.Cameron spoke after meetings with the country’s reform-minded president, Thein Sein, and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a longtime political […]
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We advise against all but essential travel to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (this does not include the city of Chittagong). If you propose to visit the Chittagong Hill Tracts you are required to give the Bangladeshi authorities ten days’ notice of your travel plans. See Safety and Security – Local Travel – Chittagong Hill Tracts. […]
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MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) – For 10 days, Australian tourist Michael Martin Caruana roamed around a mall in Malate, Manila hoping to find her Filipina girlfriend Veniz Jane Galvez. The couple met through an online dating site and was set to marry on Thursday, March 29. Read article
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BESUT: Two people have drowned while another, believed to be a foreign tourist, is missing at the sea off Pulau Perhentian Besar near Long Beach, here, this afternoon. The bodies of the two local men were found by rescuers at 3pm. Read article
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Shanghai tourist Du Chengyi’s journey to Turkey took a disastrous turn when local police accused him of smuggling cultural relics, despite his pleas of innocence. Du and his wife and mother-in-law flew from Brussels, Belgium to Istanbul, Turkey on March 18 before traveling to the southwestern tourist city of Antalya, where he bought a piece […]
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A Korean tourist is still nowhere to be found after going missing with another man who was later found drowned off the coast of the southern beach town of Vung Tau Thursday. According to a report on Vietnam News Agency Saturday, Son Yongin, 34, and Jung Sung Kyoon, 52, went missing while they were swimming […]
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