It is part of an initiative by New South Wales, Australia’s biggest state, which wants to quadruple its annual intake of skilled migrants, up to 7,200. It also includes plans to extend post-study work rights for international students. Read article
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Residents of a small fishing village on Mexico’s Riviera Maya are up in arms about the expansion of a hedonistic swingers club in their town. Puerto Morelos, a hamlet of just under 10,000 people located about 37 miles south of Cancun on the Yucatán Peninsula, is known as a tourist hot-spot for its secluded beaches, […]
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The U.S. Geological Survey says an 8.6-magnitude earthquake has struck off the northwestern coast of Indonesia, raising tsunami alerts throughout the Indian Ocean region. The quake hit about 430 kilometers southwest of Banda Aceh, the provincial capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, at an estimated depth of 22 kilometers. An 8.2-magnitude aftershock […]
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THE West Australian town of Broome is suffering a tourism crisis, with rising airfares and strong competition from Bali leading to a 20 per cent drop in visitors. Qantas has cancelled one service from each of the Sydney to Broome and Melbourne to Broome routes until June 11 because of “weaker than usual” forward bookings, […]
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Congratulations, my fellow Americans. According to a recent survey, not only is the U.S. not the rudest place on earth, but we’re not even in the top five. France is the rudest place in world to visit with nearly one-fifth of votes, based on travel website Skyscanner.com’s ranking. “This seems to be a fairly common […]
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The airport operator said 8.6 million passengers used its six UK airports in the month. BAA said “a substantial proportion” of pre-Easter traffic fell in March whereas it fell in April last year. Read article
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HOTEL and airport executives yesterday reported minimal fall-out from the strike initiated by Customs and Immigration officers during the Easter holiday weekend, with Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) processing some 37,000 travellers. Vernice Walkine, vice-president of marketing and communications at the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD), told Tribune Business that operations at the Lynden Pindling […]
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President of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago (ASTT), Dhano Sookoo, has written to Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Ramesh Lutchmedial, requesting an urgent meeting to discuss two recent bird strikes at Piarco International Airport. Sookoo told Newsday she had arranged for a letter to be hand-delivered to Lutchmedial’s office yesterday […]
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Some 60 Customs and Immigration officers returned to the pavement yesterday, broadening their target audience and making their presence felt. The group maintain they simply want the government’s ear and will do whatever they must to get it, so they marched at the front of the Grand Bahama International Airport, then onto the Government Complex […]
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Via O Globo: Rio tem mais de 30 mil casos de dengue. [Rio has over 30,000 dengue cases] And that’s the good news. Excerpt, with my translation: A cidade do Rio já tem 31.176 casos de dengue este ano, conforme o boletim semanal divulgado na segunda-feira pela Secretaria municipal de Saúde. São 3.317 casos a […]
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