This file photo shows a cycling route in central Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake area that was chosen by global travel search engine Skyscanner recently as one of the world’s top 8 cycle paths. “You can bring your family members to ride slowly on the smooth bike path to experience the Sun Moon Lake’s paradise-like view from a whole new perspective; or you can challenge yourself to complete the 33-kilometer-long round-the-lake path,” according to a Jan. 17 article on the Skyscanner website.
Category: Southeast Asia
NASA spots short-lived Tropical Depression 01W
In just 24 hours after Tropical Depression 01W formed in the Philippine Sea it was already falling apart. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the depression and saw the large, weakening depression being affected by wind shear.
CNRP rejects deal ‘proviso’
Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng, left, and deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha, right, at a meeting in Phnom Penh in 2015. Prime Minister Hun Sen is using prisoners as bargaining chips to try and force Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha to sign a declaration that would be used to kick opposition president Sam Rainsy out of the party, the latter claimed yesterday.