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   Hiss! Pop! Boom! Celebrating Chinese New Year- a book review

   Title: Hiss! Pop! Boom! Celebrating Chinese New Year Author: Tricia Morrissey with Illustrations ...

   China Ernie Yap

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   Highest cable-car to prompt winter sports boom in troubled Kashmir

   KONGDOORI, India, Jan 8, 2003 - Rebellion-torn Indian Kashmir will be among the best ski destinat...

   China / India AFP/Izhar Wani

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   In Vietnam, new money fuels boom in luxury goods

   Throughout Asia, when people do well they like to spend on luxury goods. Ho Chi Minh City and the...

   Vietnam AFP/Aude Genet

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   Southeast Asia gears up for palm oil boom

   Governments and companies have been scrambling to cash in since palm oil prices jumped last year ...

   Indonesia / Malaysia / Singapore AFP/Samantha Brown

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   Tourist boom brings threat to Leh's Tibetan architecture

   Leh is the capital of India's Buddhist Ladakh region. It's Old Town has just been put on the Worl...

   India AFP/Tripti Lahiri

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   New Delhi's New Art District

   Lado Sarai, a warren of bylanes and haphazardly constructed buildings in New Delhi's hinterland, ...

   India AFP/Penny MacRae

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   Booming Asian casinos draw tourist dollars

   The gambler leans back comfortably in his chair at a card table inside Vietnam's new Crown casino...

   Vietnam AFP/Ian Timberlake

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   Finding your way in the new “Old Lijiang”

   The Old Quarter of Lijiang has been given a facelift, and proclaimed as a World Cultural Heritage...

   China Graham Simmons

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   Japan's Cat Island

   Tashiro, is a small (3.14-square-kilometre, 7.9-square-mile) island known as Cat Island, 20 kilom...

   Japan AFP/Miwa Suzuki

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    Cambodia Resurrecta

    The airport in Siem Reap, Cambodia is clean and orderly. Still, one expects Asia's usual throng o...

    Cambodia Kenneth Champeon

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    Banned books hot property in censored Vietnam

    Vietnam's pop culture is attracting the attention of print censors ...

    Vietnam AFP/Kelly Macnamara

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    Bali's new-age yogis

    Bali profits from business of soul-searching, spiked recently with the publication of Elizabeth G...

    Indonesia AFP/Angela Dewan

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    Indian fashion

    India dresses up for its first couture week

    India AFP

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    Changing Views in Sapa

    The author wakes up to his first snow in Vietnam, while on a visit to Sapa.

    Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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    Thailand's new high-end hip hotels

    New hotels and resorts fuel design innovation in Thailand...

    Thailand AFP/Charlie McDonald-Gibson

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    Vietnam's new crop of paper offerings for ancestors

    Mod-cons for the dead a sign of good life in modern Vietnam...

    Vietnam AFP/Frank Zeller

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - Introduction

    Hiss! and "Pop!" snap the firecrackers! "Boom!" says the drum to the Lion Dancer. Chinese New Yea...

    China Tricia Morrissey

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    Balancing Orangutans and Palm Oil

    Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms

    Malaysia AFP/Beh Lih Yi

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    360 Days A Year

    It's a tough way to earn a living. Competition is vicious. Margins are small. Working conditions ...

    Vietnam Robert Strauss

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    Celebrating Chinese New Year - Firecrackers

    To scare away the terrible Nian, the daring villagers lit hissing, popping firecrackers. Now the ...

    China / Taiwan Tricia Morrissey

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