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CHENGDU, China (AFP) — Claiming to be the world’s largest building by floor space, the 1,760,000 square metres of the New Century Global Center are a monument to growing Chinese consumer power, packed with shoppers — and beach bathers a thousand kilometers from the coast. Home to hundreds of shops, restaurants, offices, a cinema and ice rink, the cavernous building in Chengdu, deep in southwestern China, also hosts a water park featuring a pool modelled […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Itinatampok ng Oceanographic Museum of Monaco ang ipinagmamalaking Tubbataha Reefs National Marine Park (TRNMP) ng Pilipinas. Mismong si Prince Albert II ang siyang nagsulong sa inisyatibong ito upang itaas ang kamalayan ng publiko sa isyu ng mga sea turtles. Matatandaang buwan ng Abril ng nagkaroon ng official visit si Prince Albert sa bansa sa imbitasyon ni dating Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III. Sa ilalim ng 360 degrees video expedition ay […]
NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — A bronze, 1-ton, 13-foot-tall Captain America statue was on display in a dedication ceremony in a New York City park on Wednesday (August 10). “I think that it’s absolutely amazing and Captain America means a lot to me because I’m trans and I think that Captain America is trans because he’s like this weak little sickly kid and he gets like this shot that turns him into Superman, he […]
PARIS, France (AFP)– Paris in August is calmer than most months with the locals on holiday, and this year is proving particularly quiet as tourists who typically flock to the City of Lights aren’t turning out in their usual numbers. The drop coincides with the recent terror attacks in the country, and visitors who have come are noticing an increased security presence.
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Is stripping down and getting sweaty with strangers your kind of thing? In Finland, despite an astounding two million private saunas, the hottest trend sweeping the sweat-tank loving country is public saunas.
When the Islamic State group captured Tal Ajaja, one of Syria’s most important Assyrian-era sites, they discovered previously unknown millennia-old statues and cuneiform tablets, and then they destroyed them. https://youtu.be/FP7irLPtMO0
Millennial US winemakers have established what they call the first commercially viable rooftop vineyard in New York, hoping to create their first vintage next year. https://youtu.be/Sly0GKhaUZI
Map of Afghanistan with photos of major tourist attractions, and areas controlled by the Taliban.
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Thousands of people turned up in the Japanese port city of Yokohama on Sunday (August 7) as dozens of giant Pikachus, a character of the globally popular Pokemon GO game, paraded down the streets. Around 50 Pikachus and a dozen children and dancers braved the summer heat to entertain fans and passersby alike. The city has an exclusive deal with The Pokemon Company, which receives licensing fees from the game and […]
Paris may be the capital of romance but it refuses to be locked down. After removing 45 tonnes of padlocks from its iconic Pont des Arts last year, the city is now launching a campaign to deter tourists from hanging these “love locks” on all of its bridges. https://youtu.be/o2uhGxqt3II
by Robin MILLARD BRIGHTON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The world’s tallest moving observation tower, the i360, opens to the public on Thursday, a futuristic landmark that has transformed the historic seafront in the English tourist resort of Brighton. A 162-meter (530-foot) high steel tower is ringed by a doughnut-shaped glass observation pod that gently glides up and down. The design is meant to be a 21st-century take on the Victorian pleasure piers that characterize British […]
Situated off the Atlantic coast of Africa, the twin archipelago Sao Tome and Principe was once the world’s leading producer of cocoa. Today the island nation is promoting itself as a tourist destination and its numbers of visitors are, slowly, rising. https://youtu.be/yYvOvlPSVFU
