Jan 20th, 2012 at 12:00PM:
Chinese New Year occurs in the early months of our calendar year, typically January or February and this year falls on January 23rd. This is the first of 15 days of celebration and the start of the Year of the Dragon.
Chinese New Year (also called the Lunar New Year) is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese calendar and a time to welcome longevity, wealth and prosperity ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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10 places to celebrate Chinese New Year
Jan 20th, 2012 at 12:00PM:
Chinese New Year occurs in the early months of our calendar year, typically January or February and this year falls on January 23rd. This is the first of 15 days of celebration and the start of the Year of the Dragon.
Chinese New Year (also called the Lunar New Year) is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese calendar and a time to welcome longevity, wealth and prosperity ...Kuala Lumpur mandates WiFi in all restaurants and bars
Jan 3rd, 2012 at 5:00PM: Thanks to a new law, visitors to Malaysia's capital city of Kuala Lumpur will be able to enjoy WiFi in all local restaurants and bars starting in April.
The New Straits Times reports that the law, passed yesterday, will make it mandatory for restaurants, cafes, pubs, bars, and clubs larger than 120 square meters in area to offer wireless Internet services free of charge, or for a reasonable ...Photo of the day - Walk this way in Malaysia
May 26th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Today's
Photo of the Day is from Malacca, Malaysia, a nice slice-of-life from Flickr user Don Wright of a local family out on a walk. We're intrigued right now with Malacca after following the tweets and dispatches of the bloggers at Eating Asia, who are currently eating their way through Malacca. Malaysia is becoming increasingly well-known as a culinary hotspot and with colorful lakma, ...Ode to the expat newspaper
May 3rd, 2011 at 3:00PM: One of my favorite things about traveling, in addition to foreign supermarkets, oddball museums, and miniature toiletries, is the local English-language expat newspaper. When I'm home in New York, I tend to get all my news online, either directly from news websites through specific searches or curated from friends' links on social media (one of the best sources for news from US newspapers is ...Knocked up abroad: second trimester travel
Apr 27th, 2011 at 11:30AM:
Not far along enough for second trimester travel? Read more about pregnancy in a foreign country, Turkish prenatal care, travel in the first trimester,Turkish superstitions, and foreign baby names on Knocked up abroad.
A few years ago, before the word staycation foisted itself into the travel lexicon, babymoons were all the rage. A babymoon typically referred to the last getaway for ...Tickets for Richard Branson cross-dressing flight now on sale
Apr 21st, 2011 at 12:30PM:
Sometimes we make bets that we that regret. While losing money makes for a hum-drum story, tales of the wealthy gambling away dignity at 38,000 feet provides a new level of intrigue. Virgin's Richard Branson and AirAsia's Tony Fernandes made such a bet last year over Formula 1 racing. Since both individuals not only captain airlines but also back F1 teams, the wager pitted Branson's Virgin ...Solo hiking in Sarawak, Borneo: an exhilarating adventure - by accident
Apr 13th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
I ended up in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, Borneo, after I had to change travel plans at the last minute. I'd just finished researching a guidebook on the Malay Peninsula and my visa to Myanmar, where I'd planned to go next, got denied, so suddenly I had five days of free time and a day to plan it. A flight to Kuching from Penang was around $60 round-trip on Air Asia and they still had ...Daily Pampering: Organic resort spa opens in Malaysia
Jan 12th, 2011 at 4:00PM: The Chateau Spa and Wellness Resort, the world's first organic wellness destination spa resort, will open on April 28, 2011 in a 150-million-year-old tropical rainforest in the Berjaya Hills, Malaysia.
Modeled after an 18th century medieval 'Haut Koesnigburg' castle in Alsace, France, The Chateau has 210 rooms and suites. The Chateau offers three, five, and seven night packages that are ...InterContinental Hotel Group prepares for 2011 openings in Russia, Portugal, Qatar, more
Jan 3rd, 2011 at 12:00PM: A new year brings new hotels. While travelers are prepping their calendars in anticipation of 2011 trips, hotel groups are working hard to open new properties around the world for guests. International expansion in Asia and Europe are top priorities for hotel groups including Marriott, Starwood and Hilton. Next up: InterContinental Hotel Groups plans their 2011 expansion including hotels in ...Photo of the Day (10.19.10)
Oct 19th, 2010 at 6:00PM:
If you've ever thought that running up a mountain sounds like a good way to spend your weekend and you have some free time in the coming week, pack your bags & get to the State of Sabah on the island of Borneo. This Saturday & Sunday, the 24th annual Mt. Kinabalu Climbathon will be taking place, marking the last event of the 2010 Skyrunner World Series. The Skyrunner series consists of ...Snakes on a plane - for real?
Sep 7th, 2010 at 1:00PM: First it was monkeys, and now this. A Malaysian man pleaded guilty to smuggling after 95 live boa constrictors burst out of his bag on a luggage belt in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport last week.
Ken Liang "Anson" Wong, 52, was charged with exporting the snakes without a permit, said Shamsuddin Osman, a Malaysian wildlife department official. He will face six months in prison and the ...Travel blogger Q&A: Jodi Ettenberg
Jul 26th, 2010 at 10:30AM: For many travel enthusiasts, bloggers, and armchair travelers, Jodi Ettenberg's story is downright inspirational. For several years a successful corporate lawyer, she left her comfortable if demanding life in New York to travel the world.
Along the way, she's had an unnerving number of bird crap incidents, documented Thailand's red shirt protests, and provided an enticing introduction to the ...Daily Pampering: Orient Express tours through South-East Asia
Jul 13th, 2010 at 4:00PM: The Orient Express, the ultra-luxury train service, is launching a series of rides through Laos, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia starting this November.
Each tour will be limited to 60 passengers (the trains can hold a maximum of 132 people) and will include overnight off-train stays, tours and lectures.
You can choose from three- and six-night excursions that journey from Bangkok to ...Worst travel mistakes of the 2000's: Kuala Lumpur passport shenanigans
Dec 30th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Back before my days as a Gadling blogger I used to travel on an extremely tight margin. As a starving college graduate, travel was my main priority -- debt, work and rent, well, those were ancillary.
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My usual modus operandi involved saving up a few hundred ...Tough year ahead for Asia travel
Jan 24th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Hotels, airlines and other hospitality companies in Asia are moving into the "brace" position. With tough economic conditions hitting every corner of the map, fewer visitors are likely to make the long trip to destinations such as Hong Kong. According to a report on MSNBC.com, some expect drops of at least 30 percent. A continent of diverse cultures, it seems, is facing a consistent challenge. ...More people traveling to Malaysia to go under the knife
Dec 10th, 2008 at 1:00PM: One type of tourism has managed to thrive despite the poor global economy. The prevalence of medical tourism is on the rise in countries like India and Malaysia. Think that it is a little extreme to go under the knife abroad? Consider this: depending on the procedure, surgery in Malaysia can cost half of what it does in the US or UK. Many doctors in Malaysia are foreign trained and facilities are ...When karaoke turns deadly
Dec 9th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Karaoke is deadly. Deadly boring. That is, unless you happen to be quite drunk or with someone you are physically attracted to. I've never gone out to find a place to sing karaoke. But I have spent a lot of time in East Asia, where karaoke seems to seek you out. I've witnessed some violence as a result of the sing-along phenomenon. Usually, it stems from "you took my beer" rather than "hand over ...Malaysia Airlines First in Asia to Offer In-Flight Mobile Phone Service
Nov 5th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Malaysia Airlines has received and installed an in-flight mobile phone system designed by AeroMobile on one of its Boeing 777s. Passengers will be able to safely use their cell phones and PDAs during the cruise portion of the flight without interfering with the aircraft's navigational controls and communication. The system has been tested extensively over the past few weeks. Cabin crews will be ...Lavigne Too Hot For Malaysia?
Aug 19th, 2008 at 12:30PM: Malaysia's main opposition party called on the government to cancel a concert featuring Canadian pop/punk princess Avril Lavigne. Why? The singer's on-stage moves are too sexy. The Pan Malaysian Islamic Party's youth wing made the request. The government wrote off the request as moralist nonsense, right? Actually, they took the advice seriously and canceled Lavigne's concert. Aside from being "too ...New Species of Malaria?
Jan 17th, 2008 at 3:00PM: Malaria, the ever changing, always-evolving, world-sized killer, is responsible for 350-500-million infections and over 1,000,000 deaths per year. Further, 41% of the world's population lives in a "malaria-risk zone." Malaria is an illness that any traveler to the tropics needs to consider, and begin to plan for, months before a trip. And with a newly discovered species of malaria, things could ...
