This post answers the obvious question: what other joint investment projects might the rival Koreas initiate as another exploratory gesture towards rapprochement?
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The Beijing Tourism Information Net homepage weather forecast has not been updated for five days and causes some trouble to families.
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From special discount cards to smaller, but similarly appreciated, gestures like multilingual signs, retailers in major American tourist destinations like New York have recognized the huge opportunity that China’s growing ranks of outbound tourists present and have retooled their marketing appropriately.
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Is it or isn't it a bubble. The Economist this week says there is no bubble in the Chinese property market. My friend Mario at Sanya Expat begs to differ. He says the soaring prices here in Sanya are just getting silly, and the huge divergences in asking prices show that there's definitely something not right going on.
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Glen gives a summary of 10 spots in China worth a visit that are off the well-worn tourist route. A great list that I'm already sourcing out travel plans to!
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One of my biggest peeves about airports is the lack of facilities available for those stuck on long stopovers on long-haul flights. I've visited many a country ONLY on stopovers. Imagine people's only impression of your country being that hideous 10-hour stopover, midway between a 19-hour flight.
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All non-Chinese people will get free access to 12 major tourist sites in Anyang city, Henan province, under a new policy, which the country's citizens believe "fawns over foreigners".
The program, which will continue until the end of the year, is designed to attract more foreign tourists, who are smaller in number than domestic travelers to the city, the Anyang tourism bureau said.
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How real are Beijing's very famous and supposedly very old 'sites'?
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The 2nd edition of the « Ba'nan Hot Springs Tourism Cultural Festival » near Chongqing has opened on monday. The organizers invited eight pretty models to celebrate the back-to-nature theme by bathing naked...
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Officials participated the conference of Third Session of the Fifth Sacred Mountains of China on December 25 in Hunan Province, which aims at applying the titles of World Heritage. These officials are from the State Ministry of Construction and Housing for urban and rural areas, from Hengyang City government, and from relative offices of Mount Tai Shan, Hua Shan, Songshan and Hengshan.
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