10 July, 2011
Every summer thousands of tourist flock to Phuket in search of the perfect sunny seaside holiday. Claire Connell explains how to avoid the common tourist traps and find the more unique parts of the island during your stay.
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Submitted by: Claire Connell | Categories: Asia, Recreation, Features , Asia, World
10 July, 2011
Ever tried learning a foreign language in the country you're living in? It's hard, but even harder when there are five tones involved. Claire Connell explores the challenges of mastering Thai.
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Submitted by: Claire Connell | Categories: Asia, Travel, Life & Style, Hobbies & Pets, Recreation, Asia, World, Regions
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Submitted by: Monique Jones | Categories: Food & Wine, Asia, Asia, Photographs
25 February, 2011
Love golf? Off to India? Well be warned - travellers are advised to carry not only their own golf clubs but also a supply of balls. Although this was the first country outside Britain to embrace the game, it seems India still relies on the West for its golfing equipment.
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Submitted by: Heather Hapeta | Categories: Asia, Hobbies & Pets, Golf
25 February, 2011
Having read Steve Braunias’ book “How to Watch a Bird" I was sure I’d prepared but it soon becomes obvious I’m out of my depth at this international gathering of bird watchers.
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Submitted by: Heather Hapeta | Categories: Asia, Features , Hobbies & Pets
24 January, 2011
Think of Afghanistan and the first things to run through your mind will (not unreasonably) be war, Taliban, and US military forces. But Afghan cricket proudly claims more than 70,000 male participants play in most of the country’s 34 provinces and that even the country’s most unstable areas have teams that compete in national tournaments. In a country where Taliban once banned girls from attending school, today in Kabul more than 100 women play. A new documentary film follows the fortune of the national team.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Asia, World, Asia, Summer Reads, Features , Recreation, Film & TV, Cricket
18 January, 2011
Business is booming for Khadija Ahmed, the female owner of the only sex store in the Arab world.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Economy, Management, Small Business, Trade, Asia, Features , Fashion, Families , Asia, Business, Features
14 November, 2010
Hong Kong is one of the world’s most exciting and irrepressible cities, but if you want some respite from all the action and crowds, suggests Penelope Barker, make your base on the laidback neighbouring island of Lantau.
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Submitted by: Penelope Barker | Categories: Asia
07 November, 2010
Beside a busy intersection in Shanghai stands a gob-smackingly kitsch sculpture, a fake tree covered in enormous plastic flowers. I'm told it's a symbol of prosperity, but the gleaming Shanghai World Financial Centre seems a much more apt symbol of the growing wealth in this city of 20 million. By Amanda Cropp
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Asia
27 October, 2010
As a budding martial artist, Chloe Johnson finds out what goes on behind the gates of a traditional Kung Fu school in China, while also tasting the local cuisine.
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Submitted by: Chloe Johnson | Categories: Asia, Asia
30 September, 2010
The writer, previously sure of her uncompromising feminist views, comes to a new understanding of the burqa. Against the current European trend that has surfaced in Australasia which views Muslim dress and veiling as the embodiment of male oppression, this article flips that view over, following an eye-opening experience while travelling in India.
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Submitted by: Olivia Ridding | Categories: Asia, Viewpoints
28 September, 2010
This article was written during a long holiday in Singapore, which was where I had lived for five years as a child. I loved the food and the people and still visit often. It covers some great Asian recipes and defines the various cultures which contribute to the flavours of Singaporean/Malay cooking.
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Submitted by: Monique Jones | Categories: Food & Wine, Asia, Asia
17 June, 2010
Leeches, leeches, everywhere. Close encounters of the bloody kind whilst trekking in Nepal leaves both physical and emotional scars.
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17 June, 2010
A mother of two attempts long-haul travel with a baby and a toddler... and survives.
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Submitted by: Patricia Compter | Categories: Families , Europe, Asia, Asia
03 February, 2010
A flower seller makes a stop at a house boat on Nagin Lake, near Srinagar, in Kashmir.
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Submitted by: Julie Starr | Categories: Travel, Asia
26 January, 2010
This is a feature story of the writer's experience in Japan. The etiquette of bathing in a public place in a foreign land and the hot spring experience. It shows how ones culture clashes with the other.
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Submitted by: Tereni Kens | Categories: Asia, Asia
26 January, 2010
This is a feature story of the writer's experience in Japan. The etiquette of bathing in a public place in a foreign land and the hot spring experience. It shows how ones culture clashes with the other.
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Submitted by: Tereni Kens | Categories: Asia, Asia
10 December, 2009
Each Sunday in the old city of Chiang Mai, Thailand there is a market where craftspeople, artists and performers gather along the traffic-free streets displaying goods for the avid bargain hunter. Thailand’s ‘rose of the north’ tempts many to enter behind the reddish walls which enclose its treasures.
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Submitted by: Kevin Miles | Categories: Asia, Asia
10 December, 2009
Each Sunday in the old city of Chiang Mai, Thailand there is a market where craftspeople, artists and performers gather along the traffic-free streets displaying goods for the avid bargain hunter. Thailand’s ‘rose of the north’ tempts many to enter behind the reddish walls which enclose its treasures.
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Word Count: 852 Licence: Syndication Price: $100.00
Submitted by: Kevin Miles | Categories: Asia, Asia
