Local festivals should undergo ‘a little bit of commercialization’ to generate income for the locals, especially players in the tourism industry, said Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan. He said local festivals such as the Kuching Festival, Moon Cake Festival or Sarawak Regatta were an instrument to woo ..
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‘Commercialize’ Local Festivals To Generate Income For Locals
The Melaka government will hold more tourism promotion to southern Thailand to attract more Thai tourists to the state. State Exco for Tourism, Culture and Haritage Datuk Seet Har Cheow said this was necessary as the number of Thai visitors to Melaka last year stood at only 16,215. “We hope to attract ..
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Melaka On Drive To Attract More Thai Tourists
The federal government plans to redevelop Langkawi’s tourism potential to revive the glory days of the resort island off Kedah. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said measures would be taken under the 10th Malaysia Plan (2011-2015) to enable Langkawi regain a prominent place on the …
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Plan To Make Langkawi Shine Again As Tourist Draw
The Terengganu Government has allocated RM100 million this year to further develop the Kenyir Lake with various tourism-related facilities. Terengganu Tengah Development Authority (Ketengah) general manager Hamzah Ngah said, among the projects to be given top priority were the development of Kenyir Island-Hopping and Petang Island Resort (PIR), set to become …
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RM100 Million To Further Develop Kenyir Lake
In a move to attract more Australians to visit Malaysia, the tourism ministry plans to put together a tourism package aimed at offering Australians the experience of reliving the three Sandakan-Ranau death marches.
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Reliving Sandakan-Ranau Death Marches: New Tour Package To Attract Australians
The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Matta) is targeting 80,000 visitors to its three-day fair and exhibition at the Putra World Trade Centre, here, starting Friday. The organising committee chairman John Tan said more than 300 tourism organisations including tourism offices, travel agencies, hotels, airlines and other related companies …
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Matta Targets 80,000 Visitors To Exhibition
Amanah Saham Anak Langkawi (ASAL), a subsidiary of the Kedah State Development Corporation, plans to take over the management of Kota Mahsuri here to become a bigger player in the tourism sector. Its chairman, Datuk Paduka Abu Bakar Taib, said Asal was in the final stages of discussion with the company …
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ASAL Wants To Manage Kota Mahsuri
We’ve made and cited the argument before: In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer aligned Essentially, in an era of open knowledge, free code and shared designs, the design phase needs less and less capital, and as shared design communities progress, they design not just sustainable products, but a new kind of machinery, along with new ways to peer-fund entrepreneurship.
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The end of venture capital and the beginning of peer-funded, “slow money” based production using shared designs and low-capital machinery
Jump to the full entry & travel map Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India At 1.30 PM local time in London we began our journey towards to the mysterious land of India. The flight took 9 and halv hours which gave us plenty of time to start on out books. For me it was the thoughts and experiences of Gandhi while Jan started on “care for the soul”
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Small, Humid, but still a nice hotel. — Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India
Jump to the full entry & travel map Sapa, Vietnam Since I had some time to spend while waiting for my Indian visa, I booked a tour to Sapa, which is a small town in the mountains. It is apparently a very popular place to visit, as all travel agents in Hanoi organize tours there. My tour includes overnight trains there and back, 1 night hotel,1 night home stay and all the meals.
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Mountains and countryside but… — Sapa, Vietnam
Jump to the full entry & travel map Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany Today, we took a train up north outside the Berlin city limits to visit the Sachenhausen concentration camp, about 35km north. To begin with, the train ride itself was momentous for two reasons. First, as it began in East Berlin, went through West Berlin, and ended up in East Germany, the trip itself would’ve been impossible twenty years ago
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Arbeit Macht Frei — Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany
Jump to the full entry & travel map Warsaw, Central Poland, Poland 12 hrs on the bus and I was completely shattered. I slept, but not soundly. The seats didn’t recline and I was on the aisle so couldn’t wedge myself into the corner
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Why do people think backpacking is fun? — Warsaw, Central Poland, Poland
Jump to the full entry & travel map Noosa, Queensland, Australia I have 2 days in Noosa on my own until I meet up with Darragh again in Brisbane. Noosa is a lovely little sea-side town with 2 gorgeous beaches. My hostel is a bit away from the centre of town but it is right beside Sunshine Beach, and the hostel run a courtesy bus into town regular enough during the day.
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Noosa — Noosa, Queensland, Australia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Daqing, Heilongjiang, China I haven’t updated in ages. I’d like to say that my excuse is that it’s been “summer intensive” period at EF, so I’ve only had one day off a week, but “one day off” still means I have hours every day where I don’t have to do anything and I easily could have updated.
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Incredibly specific — Daqing, Heilongjiang, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China We took out first flight in China from Kunming to Lijiang. We’d been really enjoying the trains, but now we are at higher altitude, there aren’t any trains and we had a choice of 40 pounds for a 40 minute flight or 10 pounds for 10 hours on a bus, so this was an easy decision
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Lijiang — Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China
Jump to the full entry & travel map Binalonan, Ilocos, Philippines A few weeks ago we were invited to a house blessing for Josie’s cousin. Their home was being built just behind our apartment and we got a early morning wakeup call all during construction. We were as excited about their house being finished as they were.
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Showers — Binalonan, Ilocos, Philippines
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Ella, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka We had three temple visits in and around Ella—two cave temples just outside of Ella and the local Ella temple that we simply had to visit after going to sleep and waking up to daily chanting. The first was on an eleven kilometre bus return from Bandarawela (six cents return each) where we had gone to access the nearest ATM and I ended up buying my first dhoti (simply called a sarong in Sri Lanka) that most men wear for work or leisure
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Temples In and Around Ella — Ella, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka
If you're going to purchase a cordless tool, then you should really think about getting one with Lithium ion batteries. They cost more, and it's easy to think you could just buy a cheaper model and get a spare battery, but it's not the same.
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Cordless Drill Driver Equipped With Li-ion Batteries
As an Englishman born and bred and a fan of history of steam Locomotives I thought it may be of interest to write an article about the history of the earliest steam locomotive. The first full scale working railway steam locomotive was built by Richard Trevithick in the United Kingdom on 21st February 1804 when the world's first railway journey took place as Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales.
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The First Steam Locomotive – England 1804