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Rickshaw Survival Guide: 10 Tips for Keeping Your Cool on Asia’s Favorite Three-Wheeler

With a few basic tips, you can avoid the stress and frustration of rickshaw riding and even get to your destination with relative ease.

Bangkok’s Controversial “Hitler-chic”

Here’s hoping it’s a short-lived trend  ©CNNGo.com Not since Prince Harry strutted in Nazi garb for a costume party, has the Führer caused so much furor. Thai teens have recently adopted what is called “Hitler-chic”, sporting clothing with cartoon images of Adolf Hitler. Some foreigners are not amused. Israel’s local ambassador is one of them. [...]

15 Surprising International Food Etiquette Rules

豚しゃぶ御膳 ©mitsukuni Do you have good table manners? Sure you may keep your elbows off the table and your napkin on your lap, but do you know what to do with your chopsticks in Japan? Or how to drink your vodka in Russia? Manners get more complicated when you head abroad, so in the spirit [...]

Aircraft Carrier Hotel Opens in China

The Tianjin Aircraft Carrier Hotel  ©gizmag.com The Kiev, a former Russian aircraft carrier is now home to the first hotel of its kind. News of the Tianjin hotel first surfaced last summer when reports of three other Russian carriers were purchased by the Chinese. Fifteen million dollars later, the carrier is safe and habitable for [...]

Japanese Company Proposes Space Elevator

Next floor–space!©whatatravisty Space fanatics have an alternative to travel via Virgin Galactic, but there’s a bit of a wait. Japan’s Obayashi Corporation recently proposed a space elevator with a target completion date of 2050. The week-long journey on the elevator will take would-be travelers to a terminal station 36,000 kilometers above the Earth. The station [...]

Photo of the Moment: Mint Museum of Toys, Singapore

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Japanese Restaurant Employs Monkey Waiters

We will be happy to take your order © @Doug88888 In the town of Utsunomiya (located north of Tokyo) a pair of monkeys will wait on you, dressed in a woman’s mask and clothing. The izakaya Kayabuki employs monkeys Fukuchan and Yacchan to bring hot towels and provide other waiting duties when the restaurant is busy. As [...]

Photo of the Moment: Playtime Under the Sun, Oman

© Jhong Dizon

Hong Kong Hosts Snow Polo World Cup

Can’t this wait till summer?  ©CNNGo.com Just when you thought you couldn’t come up with new sports involving snow, the Chinese have you covered. Last week, the first ever Snow Polo World Cup based in Asia took place in Hong Kong. Artificial snow was churned out, with just enough to cover the playing field. The [...]

Man Opens Emergency Exit Slide to Lose Screaming Kid

Vietnam Airlines ©Simon_sees Sitting next to a screaming child on a packed flight is any air traveller’s worst nightmare, but in Vietnam one passenger decided to take action and pulled open the emergency exit in an attempt to offload the offending child from the plane faster. Luckily, the Vietnam Airlines plane had already landed in [...]

Kinect-powered Park Opens in South Korea

Visitors at Live Park 4D Art Factory © Architizer.com Last month, the city of Gyeonggi, South Korea opened a fully-interactive, Kinect-powered park–Live Park 4D Art Factory. The 10,000 square foot space has 65 attractions. Kinect sensors throughout the park register movements of visitors via wristbands. A combination of 3D video, holograms, and augmented reality features move [...]

Photo of the Moment: Running Through the Gate, India

© Sukanto Debnath

Hello Kitty Takes Over the Skies

Hello Kitty ©Wikimedia Commons In what can only be explained as a mission to bring more cuteness to the skies, Taiwanese airline EVA Air has decked out three of its jets with a Hello Kitty exterior. The airline’s new taipei-based jets will operate for at least a year flying to Sapporo, Guam, Seoul, Fukuoka, Hong [...]

Tigers Attack Tourist Bus in China

Bengal Tiger ©Paul Mannix A group of tourists visiting Jinan Wildlife World in eastern China narrowly escaped after Bengal tigers attacked their bus. The incident occurred when the worker in charge of the enclosure was on his lunch break. While visitors hid under their bus seats and attempted to call emergency services, eight tigers circled [...]

Human-Like Sculptures Cause Controversy Around the World

Mark Jenkins Installation / Pictoplasma 2011 ©MatiasR Artist Mark Jenkins has spent the last few years travelling the world and installing his controversial life-like sculptures. Civilians have been so shocked by his sculptures that they’ve called the ambulance and police to help what they thought were real struggling or dead people. Perhaps the most controversal [...]

Make Way for Cocktails and Skydiving in Singapore

iFly, you fly, we all fly © CNN.go.com If you have a few hours to kill in Singapore, take a trip to iFly–the city’s skydiving destination with a new bar, SkyLoft. That’s right–a wind tunnel for indoor simulated skydiving and an adjacent bar. While divers are not allowed in pre-drink, they are more than welcome [...]

Japanese Honor Old Sewing Needles in Festival

Sewing machine © alecs apple Many ceremonies are held around the world to commemorate loved ones, aging flags–but only one is dedicated to old sewing needles. Every year on February 8th, Japanese tailors lay their used needles to rest in “hari-kuyo”, a festival held in Buddhist temples. The old needles are stuck into pieces of [...]

Beer Helps Ultra-Marathoner Run Around the World

Heineken beer bottle ©Creative Tools Irish ultra-marathon runner Richard Donovan has become the first man on the planet to run seven marathons on seven continents in less than five days–thanks to a bottle of beer. In just four days, 22 hours and three minutes, Donovan completed marathons at the Russian Novo science base in Antarctica, [...]

Cute Pandas Send Edinburgh Zoo’s Numbers Soaring

Panda ©Chi King Since the arrival of two very cute giant pandas, visitor numbers at the Edinburgh Zoo are up 200 percent. Around 70,000 people have visited the new zoo residents since December–more than three times the number who visited the zoo during the same period in 2010. The two pandas, named Tian Tian and [...]

Finnish Flight Attendants Take Off to Bollywood

Finn Air ©Joi To celebration of India’s Republic Day, flight crew on the January 17th Finnair flight AY201 from Helsinki to Dehli donned Indian attire and danced down the airplane aisles to “Deewangi Deewangi” from the Bollywood blockbuster “Om Shanti Om.” The idea for the tribute came from Helena Kaartinen, who has worked for Finnair [...]

World’s Oldest Cheese For Sale In China

After 15 years, it really is time to cut the cheese ©funkyuk Claimed to be the world’s oldest edible cheese, an importer in Hong Kong is hoping to sell a 15-year old, extra mature Bitto, an Italian alpine cheese. Ivona Grgan, the importer in possession of the Bitto, believes the Chinese love good food, particularly “relics”. [...]

Hong Kong Tourists Trapped in Gondolas Over New Years Holiday

Ngong Ping 360 ©Robert S. Donovan In what has to be a sign of bad luck for the upcoming year, about 800 passengers on Hong Kong’s Ngong Ping 360 gondola were left hanging in the air for over 30 minutes during the very busy Chinese New Year Holiday. The passengers had to endure temperatures below [...]

Malaysia’s Taman Negara: The Oldest Rainforest on Earth

Tembeling River, Malaysia © Rob_Wood In the middle of the Malaysian peninsula lies a rainforest so old it makes the entire Amazon jungle seem like new growth. Taman Negara, literally ‘national park’ in Malay, has lain virtually undisturbed for 130 million years. Located as it is in the centre of the equator, even ice ages [...]

Photo of the Moment: Sunrise Over Pandan Reservoir, Singapore

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Photo of the Moment: A Perch on Lattakia Beach, Syria

© Taras Kalapun

Cupid’s Arrow Strikes Panda Pair at French Zoo

Pandas Huan Huan and Yuan Zi  © Reuters A few days into their new home at the ZooParc de Beauval in the Loire Valley, pandas Huan Huan and Yuan Zi, are creating quite a stir. The pair is already showing interest in each other and giving hope to zookeepers that cubs could be in their future. [...]

7 Creepiest Abandoned Japanese Love Hotels [Gallery]

With a whopping 500 million visits a year, love hotels – establishments that offer couples a private, short-stay location in which they can indulge in the pleasures of the flesh – are a booming business in Japan. Indeed, it’s been estimated that 1.4 million Japanese people, or 2% of the country’s population, visit a love [...]

5 Bizarre Things To Do In Bali

Indonesia is one of the largest groups of islands in the world with 18,306 in total. Bali is one of the most popular islands in the group and is beautiful all year round. You’ll enjoy tropical climate that averages between 70 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit from January to December. Not only is it a great [...]

Couple Photographs the World “Feet First”

Machu Picchu ©Tom and Verity Robinson Tom and Verity Robinson, both 30, took their first “feet photo” in 2005 on Brighton beach in the UK. Since that photo, the globe-trotting couple has continued to photograph their feet as they traveled the world. They have since travelled through 31 countries taking the shots in places like [...]

Stay on a Soviet Battleship Hotel in China

Carrier © brighton Ready to move up from a youth hostel but not in the mood for a cookie-cutter upmarket hotel? China’s got the lodging for you. A former Soviet aircraft carrier under renovation in Tianjin is set to become China’s first ex-naval hotel in 2012…The future luxury hotel is part of Binhai Aircraft, an [...]

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