Travel Forum / Destinations / Asia / January 2008

is prostitution legal or "overlooked by authorities" in the special
autonomous regions of china?  will their be lots of prostitution at
the olympics?

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I think I know the answer but I would like your opinion.  I am travelling
from LAX to SGN via Thai or Singapore airlines.  I'm think Singapore
Airlines but I don't want to discount Thai.  EVA, United, and Vietnam Air
are all out.  I've traveled Singapore in the past but not Thai. ...

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Greetings! I am going to visit Calcutta in middle of February 2008. I
would like to go to Rangoon to visit the famous Swedagon [ I hope I
spelled it right] Pagoda. Any suggestions about the trip. I am an
American citizen. With thanks in advance.

Greetings! I would like to visit Rangoon but time is too short for
getting visa by post. Has any one from this NG got visa in a short
time by directly going to their consulate? With thanks in advance.

I am led to believe that one can travel from Xi'an direct to Jiuzhaigou
(Sichuan).  I've searched various web sites to no avail, trying to find a
flight, carrier, even on different days of the week.  Are schedules
available as far out as mid-June?   I see plenty of trips between ...

Goa in turmoil again
Editorial
THE PIONEER
Saturday, January 19, 2008

India will be denied its rightful place in the world - almost solely because
of *Bureaucracy*. Almost none of these self appointed potentates have any
idea of the rationale behind the legilstion they are administering!!
Neither, sadly do many of the legislators who enact the ...

Looking at being in Lasha (Tibet), China, and debating the different
options for getting back to a city in China to then catch an
international flight back to the Eastern USA - any noteworthy pro's/
con's for getting from Lasha to the various "international gateway"

anyone can recommend a good agency in Iran for hotels  at good rates ??
I am interested in to 5 stars hotels

A few years back one US dollar bought 43 Thai bahts. Now merely 33 bahts.
Euro is also in decline in Thailand. In 2005 one euro bought 50 bahts. Now
only 43 bahts.

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I've been doing searches all day... how to get to Irkutsk from the Asian
side (Australia, actually).
We were hoping there was a "safe" airline that flies there, but it seems
that you get Siberia Airlines, China Southern and a bunch of others.  The

Looking for informaiton about good restaurants near the Shangri La hotel in
Bangkok. Price, cuisine, service. TIA