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- Xiangjiang Safari Park: Holiday for some, ordeal for others
- World's top 50 foods, soul-soothing trips, paradise for rent
- Bangkok offers 'best bang for buck' worldwide
- Aimee Chan: Customer service in Singapore, what’s that?
- Epic pig roast, top Sydney beaches, volunteer in Thailand
- 中國「發明」了新泳式
- The making of Bali’s incredible pig roast
- Aravind Adiga’s new novel: A bittersweet homage to Mumbai
- The death of publishing: Where are Tokyo's English magazines now?
- 老齢化問題を抱える韓国の海女ヘニョ
| Xiangjiang Safari Park: Holiday for some, ordeal for others Posted: 22 Jul 2011 12:00 AM PDT Part of Guangzhou's massive Chimelong Travel Resort, the safari park manages to be surreal, intriguing and disconcerting all at once About two hours by road northwest of Hong Kong, Chimelong Travel Resort in Guangzhou is one of the most popular weekend getaways for Hong Kongers seeking an affordable trip that will keep the whole family entertained. It's also a place that invokes a less positive reaction from animal-welfare organizations such as Animals Asia, as well as other out-of-towners. The 130-hectare travel and entertainment development is Guangzhou's premiere tourist attraction, receiving a five "A" rating from the national tourism authority.      |
| World's top 50 foods, soul-soothing trips, paradise for rent Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:48 PM PDT    |
| Bangkok offers 'best bang for buck' worldwide Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:04 PM PDT  And the accolades keep rolling in. Just a couple of weeks after Travel+Leisure readers voted Bangkok the "World's Best City," Tripadvisor.com says the Thai capital offers the "Best Bang for Buck" worldwide. The travel website released the results of its inaugural TripIndex –- a cost comparison of 50 key tourist cities around the world and 15 hot spots in the U.S. -- tracked against the U.S. dollar.    |
| Aimee Chan: Customer service in Singapore, what’s that? Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:56 PM PDT For such a small island we seem to have a lot of dead fish. That blank facial expression accompanied with the silence that permeates the whole service industry -- you know what I am talking about -- that drives us all mad. Zero knowledge = no helpWait staff in Singapore seem to have a perpetual inability to convey any information about the dishes listed on their own restaurant menu. Maybe this is because that would require communication which, strangely, doesn't seem to be a common strength in the service industry. Remind me again why is it that we are paying that additional service charge?    |
| Epic pig roast, top Sydney beaches, volunteer in Thailand Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:36 PM PDT    |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT  高金龍騎著小型摩托車﹣﹣一種節儉上海人的典型代步工具到來參與訪問。 他戴著眼鏡，身穿藍色條紋恤衫和黑色長褲，說是業餘泳手好像有點太胖。 「我再沒有游泳了」高先生承認。 「在上海游泳很昂貴。 此外，如果我太常在公眾泳池游泳，別人可能會從中偷師。」 這個靈巧的 60 歲老人從膠袋裡拿出一本釘裝簡單的小本子放在桌上。 標題為： 「休閒中華泳入門」。    |
| The making of Bali’s incredible pig roast Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT A smiling, shirtless, tattooed man sits on a stool spinning four pigs over a searing fire. The fragrance of the grilled pork is accompanied by the intense heat from the fire pit. The rest of the room is dark and dirty, a scene more appropriate for a country village than the back stage of a Balinese restaurant. This is the grilling station in Candra Babi Guling, a restaurant in Denpasar and one recommended to me by various locals when I ask them for an authentic Balinese food experience. It doesn't come much more authentic than this.    |
| Aravind Adiga’s new novel: A bittersweet homage to Mumbai Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:58 PM PDT Aravind Adiga's "Last Man in Tower" has the distinction of being the first novel published by an Indian Man Booker Prize winner. The two Indians who preceded Adiga to the Booker podium, Kiran Desai and Arundhati Roy, have produced no expansive fiction since their victory, while he himself followed up his award-winning "The White Tiger" with a collection of short stories called "Between The Assassinations."    |
| The death of publishing: Where are Tokyo's English magazines now? Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:55 PM PDT You should excuse Greg Starr for waxing nostalgic. After all, as editor in chief of "Tokyo Journal" during the first half of the 1990s, he presided over an age of hard-hitting, irreverent and money-losing local journalism that would be forever upended by the Internet. He was editor in 1992 when the magazine published a piece by James Bailey called "The Incredible Inflating Man," which revealed TV talent Dave Spector's penchant for inflating his resumé. The magazine ran investigative pieces on the plight of Filipino laborers, the murder of a Thai hostess and revelations of HIV-contaminated blood in government-run blood banks and a subsequent bureaucratic cover-up.    |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:00 PM PDT 韓国の人魚と言われるヘニョ（済州島や牛島の海女）は、海底のアワビ、ウニ、タコ、海草を捕るために数分息を止めながら水深 20 メートルまで潜ることができる。 だが儒教思想が優勢な社会では、この職業を生業としていくことは難しい。 済州島や牛島の海女は、海を生業にするための自らの権利をめぐり、男性、政府、また時には軍までも相手に長年戦ってきた。 そして今、この伝統は消滅しかけている。 政府の役人はこれらの島の観光産業を強化する一方、若い世代の女性達は学業やより都会的なライフスタイルを求めて本土に行きたがる。かつて高く尊敬されていたこの職業は、先細りしているのだ。 1960 年代には、3 万人以上のヘニョが済州島や牛島の沿岸から毎日水に潜っていた。 現在辛うじて 5 千人の海女がいるが、うち3 分の 2 は 60 才を超えている。 日本への海産物の輸出が海女たちの懐を潤し、娘を学校へやり、重要な沿岸施設の支払いにも充てていた 1970 年代の絶頂期を境に、ヘニョは高齢化。また、彼女たちの軌跡を辿る若い世代もいない。    |
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