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- 'Pub peab' goes viral -- the Thai twist on planking
- Delicious, decadent and discounted: Hong Kong Restaurant Week
- Mumbai's no. 1 thing to do this week: Gawk at a rusty ship
- English Premier League in Asia: Where and when to see your team
- Chinese company to clone entire Austrian town
- 10 great cities, 100 fantastic free attractions
- 5 rules of traveling with kids
- Trail running sends Tokyo hotfoot to the hills
- Emile Sherman: From 'The King's Speech' to Voiceless animal rights organization
| 'Pub peab' goes viral -- the Thai twist on planking Posted: 20 Jun 2011 04:29 AM PDT Unfortunately for those who were hoping Australia's 'planking' fad would go unnoticed here in Thailand, the country has embraced the bizarre trend with unbridled enthusiasm. So much so that hundreds of thousands of Thais are now supporting an alternative to the 'plank.' Planking involves lying face down in an unusual or awkward location. The planker's hands must touch the sides of their body. Plankers then post photos of themselves 'planking' on the Internet. Last week, a group in Thailand launched an alternate Facebook campaign to promote the traditional pose known as "pub peab," which involves sitting in a kneeling position.      |
| Delicious, decadent and discounted: Hong Kong Restaurant Week Posted: 20 Jun 2011 03:25 AM PDT  Hong Kong Restaurant Week on July 11-17 will let foodies indulge at Hong Kong's popular restaurants with special promotional prices. More than 30 Hong Kong restaurants will offer three-course set menus priced at HK$158 for lunch and HK$298 for dinner. Michelin-starred restaurants add HK$100 for each star, which means dinner at a one-star restaurant is just HK$398 (plus service charges).    |
| Mumbai's no. 1 thing to do this week: Gawk at a rusty ship Posted: 20 Jun 2011 12:36 AM PDT  Does my city perhaps lack something by way of entertainment? A grounded tanker became the city-wide, high talking point of this weekend. Titanic merchant ship MV Wisdom ran ashore on June 12 after the ropes broke while being towed from Colombo to a ship breaking yard in Gujarat, where it was to be dismantled into scrap. The MV Wisdom is now spending its last days as a pop-up tourist attraction instead and causing some bad traffic too. With a 9,000-ton, 175-meter-long cargo ship practically at arm's length, word of the spectacle spread through the week and by the weekend the crowd of tourists and local families was almost ten times its normal size.    |
| English Premier League in Asia: Where and when to see your team Posted: 19 Jun 2011 10:55 PM PDT It will be an eventful July for English Premier League fans on this side of the planet, with Liverpool playing in Guangzhou and Kuala Lumpur, Chelsea playing in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok and Arsenal headed to Kuala Lumpur and Hangzhou. To top things off, Chelsea will be pitted against either Blackburn or Aston Villa at the Barclays Asia Trophy in Hong Kong. Here's all you need to know about the EPL's itinerary in Asia this summer.
Liverpool Asia Tour 2011July 13, 2011: Guangzhou, ChinaFixture: Guangdong Sunray Cave FC vs. Liverpool FC.    |
| Chinese company to clone entire Austrian town Posted: 19 Jun 2011 07:35 PM PDT  In recent years, Shanghai has seen the construction of a number of European-style compounds, such as English town, Dutch town, German town and Italian town. None of these, however, have been a straight replica of an actual foreign town.    |
| 10 great cities, 100 fantastic free attractions Posted: 19 Jun 2011 03:00 PM PDT Ever noticed how things always seem better when you don't have to pay for them? Seeing the world's best bits doesn't have to involve going broke. Here are 10 of the globe's greatest city destinations, each with 10 amazing attractions, for free. Click through all the pages at the bottom, or fly directly to your chosen city by clicking the graphic below.    |
| 5 rules of traveling with kids Posted: 19 Jun 2011 02:56 PM PDT  The June holidays are here, a fact that fills parents with both excitement and a certain amount of dread. Many children will be heading off to destinations near and far with their mums and dads who, if they did not take their children on holiday, would probably not know what else to do with them.
Traveling with children, especially young ones, is no mean feat.    |
| Trail running sends Tokyo hotfoot to the hills Posted: 19 Jun 2011 02:55 PM PDT Hilly Japan has long been a nation of alpinists and weekend ramblers, never more so than in recent years, with terms like Yama Gaaru (Mountain Girl) -- young women who prefer outdoor gear to fashion brands -- entering the vernacular. Now, fitness fanatics who've got used to hiking up Japan's peaks are taking their treks to the next level in the pursuit of fitness -- trail running. Monkey See, monkey re-do
As the name implies, trail running involves jogging rather than walking up a mountain. Sounds tiring? You're missing the point.    |
| Emile Sherman: From 'The King's Speech' to Voiceless animal rights organization Posted: 19 Jun 2011 12:59 PM PDT  "I don't think people want to have their nose shoved into the world of gruesome images," says Emile Sherman, fresh from his Oscar-winning production, "The King's Speech." Want it or not, the gruesome images to which Sherman refers -- brutal depictions of cattle-industry animal cruelty and mistreatment -- have sent shockwaves through Australia over the last two weeks. ABC's "Four Corners" program's exposé of the Australian cattle industry has led to a federal export ban to Indonesia. For Sherman, the issue hits close to the bone. Though internationally known as the Oscar-winning producer who gave England's King George VI a voice on the silver screen in "The King's Speech," Sherman has long advocated for animal rights.    |
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