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Malaysia Airlines is increasing its frequency from Kuala Lumpur into Mumbai to12 times weekly effective 3 June 2013. Following greater demand from the market, one additional service will be made to the current daytime schedule of services put in by the national carrier since September 2012. Starting June 2013, daytime services from Kuala Lumpur to Mumbai on flight MH174 depart every Monday, Wednes [...]

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Latest update: changes to the parts of Sabah to which the FCO advise against all but essential travel

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Filed under: Asia , Cambodia A decrepit railway line in Cambodia only sees about one scheduled train per week, but that doesn't mean it goes unused the rest of the time. According to BoingBoing.net , entrepreneurial railway hackers have been building makeshift trains out of a slatted, bamboo platform set on two sets of wheels. The cart-like contraption is then power by a motor, which propels it a [...]

Filed under: Paddling , Stories , Asia , Thailand , Budget Travel Heather Ellison Most people who think monkeys are cute have more than likely never met a real monkey. Although they might be cute on television , as anyone who has actually met a monkey will tell you, their cuteness is simply a disguise for their evil. Yes, I'll say it again: monkeys are evil . They have stolen my lunch while hikin [...]

© gustavo88 Lasers. They’re useful for more than just tense moments in action films, scanning your groceries, and tormenting cats. Scientists made a significant discovery in Cambodia and it’s all thanks to the use of lasers to map the area around the Angkor Wat temple complex. Airborne lasers were used to scan the landscape and [...]

Images courtesy of Eastern & Oriental Express, used with permission. Trains seem so 19th century, in the age of the low-cost carrier, but for the traveler with a little extra cash to spare, the past doesn't seem like such a bad way to travel. Now you have the Eastern & Oriental Express train (E&O), with another travel package for the well-heeled tourist seeking new trails to blaze: the "Journey [...]

Dag 16: Det er sondag, og min forste dag i storbyen Shanghai! Jeg sover en del timer ekstra, kun fordi jeg kan. Rommet jeg egentlig skulle hatt, var opptatt da jeg ankom hostelet, Blue Mountain hostel. Saa jeg meg bytte rom og drasse med meg bagasjen til det nye rommet, for ejg gjor noe som helst i dag. Tenkte jeg skulle prove aa faa funnet ut mer om utvidelse av visum, eller soke om visum til Vie [...]