The heavy-set man got out of a taxi one night last September and headed for the lobby bar of the swank Wynn Macau - a quiet place, where women are often in evening dresses and gamblers can relax with $300 Cuban cigars. He was dressed casually.
The heavy-set man got out of a taxi one night last September and headed for the lobby bar of the swank Wynn Macau - a quiet place, where women are often in evening dresses and gamblers can relax with $300 Cuban cigars. He was dressed casually.
Dressed in jeans and blue suede loafers, Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, waved after his first-ever interview with South Korean media in Macau in June 2010. Nam had spent years in exile, gambling and drinking and arranging the occasional business deal as he traveled across Asia and Europe.
When Saudi Arabia's king travels to Indonesia he'll have packed 506 tons of stuff into his bags. As well as spare knickers, travel plugs and mints, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz will travel with two Mercedes limousines and two elevators? It's the first time the King has visited Indonesia for 46 years.
But not if you are Benjamin Netanyahu. In the Israeli prime minister's case, it can take more than 11 hours.
... truck driver, no one will be making that joke in Kazakhstan anytime soon. The second truck in a convoy recorded the weird scene. The video begins with the $10 million Mi-8 gunship helicopter sitting in the middle of a highway. Snow covers the ...
Around the world, spectacular fireworks displays erupt to celebrate the New Year every January 1. In the United States, people revel in red, white, and blue explosions in the sky every Fourth of July. Also impressive are the Chinese New Year fireworks celebrations.
I was looking forward to watching this pretty much because of the sequences I saw in the ads with the Escher-like city transformations. So let's start with the good: The movie does indeed present some action sequences that are quite novel, from those aforementioned city manipulations to the fight in Hong Kong that takes place while time is reversing.
When Aileen Cynthia Maggay-Amurao discovered the secret her nephew had kept under his bed for a decade, she could not believe her eyes. Unlike most people who toss junk or large collections of porn under their mattress, Aileen's nephew stored his good luck charm.
Geoff Hann and his company Hinterland Travel takes tourists around what is officially the most dangerous country not at war There's just one small problem. At 3,500 for three weeks, it comes with some added extras which won't be to everyone's taste: possible roadside bombs, Kalashnikov-toting bandits and Taliban attacks.
Forget travelling first class - this bear travelled teddy class after being left behind at an airport by its heartbroken owner. Young Ulyana had been travelling to Thailand for a winter break with her family but accidentally left her ted in Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth largest city.
When Ripley's Believe It or Not! opened in Pattaya, in 1995, there was one question on everyone's lips: why bother when the immediate surrounds are so much more incredible? A couple of decades on, the seaside-city resort is Thailand's premier adventure playground, pulling in close to a million visitors a month and serving up a phantasmagorical entertainment cocktail containing rather more than sun, sand, sea and the other thing. Just as Monopoly players end up on Go, at one time or another all travel articles about Pattaya land on Walking Street, known to those of a philosophical bent as the Old Kant Road.
China's financial capital is known for its glamorous riverfront. The neon-lit skyscrapers of the Pudong district are on one side and the beloved Bund, or embankment walkway, on the other, fronted by historic colonial-era bank buildings that now host high-end restaurants.
China's financial capital is known for its glamorous riverfront. The neon-lit skyscrapers of the Pudong district are on one side and the beloved Bund, or embankment walkway, on the other, fronted by historic colonial-era bank buildings that now host high-end restaurants.