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Taiwan reports 1st imported case of P. knowlesi malaria in 20 years
Focus Taiwan
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July 2, 2025
Taipei, July 2 (CNA) Taiwan has reported a new imported malaria case, marking the first case in 20 years of Plasmodium knowlesi malaria, a zoonotic disease primarily found in Southeast Asia, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Wednesday....
Foreign visitors to Vietnam near 10.7 million in H1, half of full-year target
Vietnam News Agency
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The H1 figure stood at 49 percent of the full-year target of 22-23 million tourists, but it should be noted that the peak international tourism season in Vietnam lasts from October to March. Vietnam welcomed nearly 10.7 million international...
Taiwan is creating an offshore wind industry to fuel its semiconductor factories
Rest of World
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July 2, 2025
As powerful monsoon winds buffeted the Taiwan Strait, British captain Richard Boghurst braced himself for a demanding shift laying undersea power cables to carry wind energy to Taiwan’s semiconductor factories. “The currents were so strong that...
Early birds to benefit most from planned tourism subsidies
Bangkok Post
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July 3, 2025
Largest stimulus fund is 1.76 billion baht for domestic tourism co-payment scheme PUBLISHED : 3 Jul 2025 at 18:28 The 750-million-baht subsidy for airlines and tour groups to stimulate the tourism industry will be distributed on a first-come,...
World News | China Targets Taiwan's Chip Secrets with USD 24 Billion Acquisition Plot
Latestly
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July 3, 2025
Taipei [Taiwan], July 3 (ANI): The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) announced on Wednesday that it will conduct a "thorough examination" of any proposed acquisition of the Taiwanese tech firm Source Photonics Co, Ltd, amid growing concerns...
Lotte’s Travel+Fintech app. China tops Japan in trends. Technoheaven’s bed bank. HotelBank x TA Network. SEO is out, AI is in
WIT
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July 3, 2025
Lotte’s Travel+Fintech app. China tops Japan in trends. Technoheaven’s bed bank. HotelBank x TA Network. SEO is out, AI is in China tops Japan as Singaporeans spend strategically this June YouTrip’s June Holiday Travel Trends Report reveals that...
I quit my job to travel the world. About 18 months later, I realized living abroad isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Business Insider
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At the end of 2022, after a year of living together, my boyfriend broke up with me. I'd built my life around him, even taking a marketing job in Colorado to move in together. I was shattered. I was stuck at a job I wasn't excited about and found...
Japan’s Department Store Shares Lag as Tourist Splurge Slows
Mint
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July 2, 2025
Once the darling of Japanese stock investors, department stores have lagged the recent broad market rally and could fall further behind as a strong yen dents tourist spending power. Low confidence stemming from economic uncertainty has also...
YouTrip unveils June holiday trends
TTR Weekly
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July 2, 2025
SINGAPORE, 3 July 2025: As the June school holidays wrap up, YouTrip, Singapore’s leading multi-currency digital wallet, reports a strong surge in outbound travel by Singaporeans, with one in four visiting more than one destination during the...
Trip Affiliates Network and HotelBank Taiwan forge alliance
Travel Weekly
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July 3, 2025
Trip Affiliates Network has announced a partnership with HotelBank Taiwan to fast-track digital transformation and elevate hotel inventory distribution capabilities across Asia Pacific. The partnership comes at a time when the APAC travel industry...
Rules for portable batteries on planes are changing
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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July 6, 2025
The rules on carrying portable batteries on some of the world’s biggest airlines, and in some of the busiest air travel markets, have changed rapidly this year because of the risk of fires. And because there is no global standard, the varying...
China Car Crash Plan Targeting Hsiao Bi-khim Shocks Taiwan
The Diplomat
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July 2, 2025
Comments late last month by General Petr Bartovský, the director of Czech military intelligence, stated that Chinese officials had planned to ram the car of Hsiao Bi-khim, then Taiwan’s vice president-elect, during her trip to Prague last year. In...
Donovan’s Deep Dives: Strangely, many foreign observers find Taiwan’s totally normal politics mystifying
Taipei Times
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July 2, 2025
The confusion is hardly surprising — Taiwan’s government is ruled under a Constitution written for a faraway mid-20th-century Chinese government founded when Taiwan was a Japanese colony Taiwan’s politics is mystifying to many foreign observers....
British tourist, 67, dies on cruise ship in Corfu: Urgent probe launched
Daily Mail
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July 2, 2025
By TARYN PEDLER Published: 14:41 EDT, 2 July 2025 | Updated: 15:11 EDT, 2 July 2025 An elderly British man has died on a cruise ship travelling through a Greek holiday hotspot. The 67-year-old man passed away while on board the vessel which was...
Niue not at 2025 Pacific Mini Games due to travel costs to Palau
RNZ
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July 2, 2025
The 2025 Pacific Mini Games set to officially open on Sunday. Photo: Facebook / Pacific Mini Games Palau 2025 Team Niue is not competing at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau. Both the Niue Island Sports and Commonwealth Games Association and...
The tailoring capitals of Asia worth travelling for
Tatler Asia
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At the top tailoring destinations in Asia—from Taipei and Hoi An to Manila and Singapore—craftsmanship, culture and heritage still go hand in hand In Southeast Asia, tailoring isn’t just a service—it’s a heritage. Amid the rise of fast fashion and...
Tourist upset after discovering Singapore hotel is next to funeral home
The Independent Singapore
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June 30, 2025
SINGAPORE: A Taiwanese tourist planning a family holiday in Singapore has raised concerns after she realised the hotel she booked was located right beside a funeral parlour. The traveller, Shannon, told Stomp that she had reserved a three-night...
Taipei hotels distort media landscape
Taipei Times
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June 30, 2025
My youngest son attends a university in Taipei. Throughout the past two years, whenever I have brought him his luggage or picked him up for the end of a semester or the start of a break, I have stayed at a hotel near his campus. In doing so, I...
Iran’s Women’s Basketball Team to Travel to China Wednesday Night
Tasnim News Agency
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July 2, 2025
The eight teams in Division B are divided into two groups. The competition will be held in Shenzhen from July 13 to 20. Groups: Group A: Chinese Taipei, Kazakhstan, India, Tahiti Group B: Iran, Thailand, Mongolia, Cook Islands The wimnner will...
Japan to build bomb shelter on its westernmost island amid Taiwan tensions
Stars and Stripes - Washington D.C
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A drawing depicts a planned office complex for Yonaguni, a Japanese island near Taiwan, that will include a bomb shelter able to host up to 200 people during a military attack. (Japan Cabinet Secretariat) Japan plans to build an underground bomb...