Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
January 3, 2016
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, located near City Hall, spans 6000 years and a myriad of cultures in its vast collections.
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, located near City Hall, spans 6000 years and a myriad of cultures in its vast collections.
Air China has opened a new route for Chinese tourism and influence with a direct flight from Beijing to Havana, with a stopover in Montreal. Service began yesterday, using a 777-300ER. For Air China, it’s an expansion that gives the state-owned carrier routes to all six inhabited continents, and opens a new destination for Chinese tourists and trade, and adds to the airline’s direct Canada service as well. The first flight took off after ceremonies and speeches by Chinese and Cuban…
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GarryRF presents this huge stainless steel monument to the great conqueror, located near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The ashram where the Beatles famously went in the 1960s to practice meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yoga, has now re-opened for visitors, with walking trails and gardens. The Beatles left after a few months, and disagreements with the Maharishi, who nonetheless became a world-famous figure. Once he left the area, near the Ganges in the Rajaji national park, it slid toward abandonment, and closed in the 1970s. It has been overtaken by forest, but has now been cleared. DVS Khati, chief…
Air France will re-open its historic Paris-Tehran route in April with a 3-times-a-week round trip, starting in April. The move is part of the resumption of trade with Iran, possible because of the lifting of sanctions as part of the multi-nation nuclear limits treaty with Iran. Air France previously flew the route from 1946 until 2008, which it was ended as part of the UN and EU sanctions against Iran. The EU is already Iran’s fourth-biggest economic partner, and trade is expected to grow.
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Carnival Cruises is taking a giant step into the Chinese cruise market.
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San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, located near City Hall, spans 6000 years and a myriad of cultures in its vast collections.
Air China has opened a new route for Chinese tourism and influence with a direct flight from Beijing to Havana, with a stopover in Montreal. Service began yesterday, using a 777-300ER. For Air China, it’s an expansion that gives the state-owned carrier routes to all six inhabited continents, and opens a new destination for Chinese tourists and trade, and adds to the airline’s direct Canada service as well. The first flight took off after ceremonies and speeches by Chinese and Cuban…
Kingtikitaki takes us to the love lock fence at N Seoul Tower. And unlike so many places that discourage people to put locks up, N Seoul Tower encourages it in designated areas.
Antigua is one of Guatemala’s oldest cities, and has some of its best-preserved colonial buildings—at least in part because after 1776 it was nearly-abandoned for 150 years. LestertheInvestor shows us around.
GarryRF presents this huge stainless steel monument to the great conqueror, located near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The ashram where the Beatles famously went in the 1960s to practice meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yoga, has now re-opened for visitors, with walking trails and gardens. The Beatles left after a few months, and disagreements with the Maharishi, who nonetheless became a world-famous figure. Once he left the area, near the Ganges in the Rajaji national park, it slid toward abandonment, and closed in the 1970s. It has been overtaken by forest, but has now been cleared. DVS Khati, chief…
Air France will re-open its historic Paris-Tehran route in April with a 3-times-a-week round trip, starting in April. The move is part of the resumption of trade with Iran, possible because of the lifting of sanctions as part of the multi-nation nuclear limits treaty with Iran. Air France previously flew the route from 1946 until 2008, which it was ended as part of the UN and EU sanctions against Iran. The EU is already Iran’s fourth-biggest economic partner, and trade is expected to grow.
Singapore will open its new National Museum to the public on Tuesday, after three years of construction that have turned its 1937 Supreme Court and 1929 City Hall into Asia’s largest visual arts institution, with a collection of over 8,000 works of…
Carnival Cruises is taking a giant step into the Chinese cruise market.
Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Paris-Beauvais, France and Laguardia in New York City top (or is it bottom?) the shame list for airports in the world, Europe and North America this year on a recent survey. At the other end of the scale, congratulations to…