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- Richard Gere: 'All I had to do was please myself'
- The world's best airline is ...
- ‘Stuck’: What you get when two guys amuse themselves in an empty airport
- Male strippers, massage: Top 10 ways to make flying fun
- Hong Kong Ocean Park Rainforest: The Amazon meets Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
- 'Sacred Skin': An exploration of Thailand's sak yant tattoo culture
- Dan Grunebaum: The truth behind the international media's disaster headlines
- Almost like mamma used to make: Italian home cooking comes to Seoul
| Richard Gere: 'All I had to do was please myself' Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:51 AM PDT Actor Richard Gere personally introduced his photography show -- "Pilgrim" -- that went on display at the Seoul Arts Center this week. Gere's exhibition, titled "Pilgrim," is an extensive collection of more than 60 exquisitely rendered black and white photographs. The 61-year-old actor says they document his vision of his Tibetan experiences. "I think it is impossible to look at these photographs and not realize the extraordinary suffering of the Tibetan people," said Gere.      |
| The world's best airline is ... Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:01 AM PDT Qatar Airways has been named the world's best airline at the annual Skytrax World Airline Awards held during the Paris Air Show this year, with Singapore Airlines and Asiana Airlines in second and third. The winners are voted for by more than 18.8 million airline passengers from 100 different nationalities over 10 months. Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai Airways International came in fourth and fifth, respectively. Etihad Airways, Air New Zealand, Qantas Airways, Turkish Airlines and Emirates fill out the top 10 list. Passengers also voted in 38 different categories of airline front-line services, from the best first-class cabins to the best economy-class meals.    |
| ‘Stuck’: What you get when two guys amuse themselves in an empty airport Posted: 22 Jun 2011 11:14 PM PDT When photographers Joe Ayala and Larry Chen found themselves stranded overnight in Dallas Fort Worth Airport, they decided to put their expensive video equipment to use. The result is what news.com.au calls "the ultimate traveler revenge video." In the video, the two guys sneak into a bar to steal beers, play around on escalators and put a security guard out of sorts when he sees them spinning around madly in wheelchairs. Since going viral there have been shouts of "Fake!" with some thinking it's an eleborate ruse by the makers of the cameras they used.    |
| Male strippers, massage: Top 10 ways to make flying fun Posted: 22 Jun 2011 07:58 PM PDT  A couple of weeks ago we posted a story: "In-flight wish list: How would you make air travel fun?" Inspired by Etihad's plan to introduce on-board chefs to its First class cabins, it was a list of another 10 ways to turn flying from a tiresome, painful chore into an entertainment in itself, or at the very least a comfortable way to travel. Things like:    |
| Hong Kong Ocean Park Rainforest: The Amazon meets Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Posted: 22 Jun 2011 03:00 PM PDT Ocean Park just got wilder, and its new inhabitants are not what we expected them to be Hong Kong Ocean Park has a new attraction: a rainforest zone where pocket-sized monkeys live next to dog-sized rodents. The just-opened zone does the Amazon Rainforest justice with more than 70 exotic South American animals, many of whom are on display in Hong Kong for the first time. The completion of the 500-square-meter Rainforest zone is a key part of the New Ocean Park experience of "edutainment" envisioned in their six year HK$5.55 billion Master Redevelopment Plan. It also features The Rapids, a permanent water ride that takes you throughout the zone and leaves you drenched.    |
| 'Sacred Skin': An exploration of Thailand's sak yant tattoo culture Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:58 PM PDT  "Achan Thoy [pictured above] is a highly respected Dabot Ruesi, a hermit sage of Hindu origin, known as a Rishi or Yogi in India, a man with the power to apply sacred and magic tattoos to a devotee's skin," says 'Sacred Skin' author Tom Vator. "He is a sak yant tattoo master."  Almost like a cartographic reference to ancient wisdom, the ink on the man's body stands out in dramatic detail on the monochromatic image on the cover of "Sacred Skin: Thailand's Spirit Tattoos."    |
| Dan Grunebaum: The truth behind the international media's disaster headlines Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:55 PM PDT In the days and weeks after the earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, the world was flooded with stories about the stoic and hardy Japanese people. Accepting the horrible lot dealt by Mother Nature, they were too polite to complain, lining up for blankets and rations at evacuation centers. Bound tightly by the famous Japanese group spirit, survivors divided meager portions among themselves equitably. None of the unseemly scuffles for supplies one that one sees in "less refined" countries was observed. Tsunami-hit communities were also safe from looting -- no proper Japanese would even think of stealing from his or her countrymen when they were down.    |
| Almost like mamma used to make: Italian home cooking comes to Seoul Posted: 22 Jun 2011 02:55 PM PDT  Seriously, could Seoul use more Italian restaurants? According to one dedicated Neapolitan gourmand, the answer is yes. "A lot of places [in Seoul] they don't match -- the name is not Italian, the food is not 100 percent Italian, they make it fusion," says Maurizio Ventrone, co-owner of Apartamento, the latest Italian restaurant to hit Seoul's trendy Garosu-gil. "Not to put anyone down, of course, but they just don't work in my opinion," continues the 36-year-old cautiously. "That's what makes Apartamento different. It's the real thing." Ventrone opened the eatery with his Korean business partner, Jin Hong, last March. Hong manages Apartamento's finances while Ventrone works as creative director.    |
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