With more than half of Vancouver’s residents speaking English as a second language only, the city’s airport, Canada’s second largest and serving the country’s third most populous metropolitan area, boasts an impressive network of services to China, with most routes seeing growth this summer. Serving one of the world’s most “liveable cities”, Vancouver International Airport was Canada [...]

Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory. They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions [...]This story comes to us [...]

A new strain of bird flu that is causing a deadly outbreak among people in China is a threat to world health and should be taken seriously, scientists said on Wednesday. The H7N9 strain has killed 24 people and infected more than 125, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO), which has described it [...]This story comes to us via Homeland Security - National Terror Alert. Nati [...]

American Airlines has launched daily non-stop service between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea - reinforcing American’s commitment to expanding and strengthening its global presence, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Through American’s extensive network from Dallas/Fort Worth, customers travelling from South Korea now have one [...]

Growth seems to be returning to Sapporo Chitose Airport again, with anna.aero 2013 estimates of close to 18 million annual passengers anticipated at the airport serving the fourth largest city in Japan. Sounds like a reason to celebrate with a local beer! Battling it out with Fukuoka Airport to be Japan’s third busiest airport (behind Tokyo Haneda and Tokyo Narita) is Sapporo Chitose Airport, wh [...]

North Korea, one of the least accessible countries in the world, is opening its borders to day-trippers, Chinese news agencies have reported. According to the reports, the government in Pyongyang will allow visitors to cross from Dandong City in China to Sinuiju, North Korea's largest border town. The news comes in the midst of mounting international concern over North Korea’s determination to p [...]

Two women now in their 80s, who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese forces in WWII, refuse to meet politician who recently defended practice

Financial markets dip amid weaker economic data in China and concerns that Fed may dial back monetary support

Lao Cai is a frontier province located within the northern Plains and Midland region of Vietnam. Lying between the northeastern and northwestern regions, Lao Cai shares the border with China on the north, Lai Chau province on the west, Ha Giang province on the east and Yen Bai province on the south. Lao Cai is home to 25 different ethnic minority groups, making it a land of rich cultural as well a [...]

After a night stop in Daejon, I arrived in Danyang, a small town surrounded by a large river and high mountains. I visited the gorgeous and huge temple complex of Guin-sa. A lantern event had to take place a few days before, it was cleaning time. So I help a little and be thanked by the local grandmas with a lot of red beans bread! [img=http://p ... [Posted by ChachaInAsia, in Trip through Asia, f [...]