RP tourism takes center stage at NY Times Travel Show Inquirer | NEW YORK – The Philippines took center stage at the New York Times Travel Show last weekend, featuring its panoramic sights, white-sand beaches, culture and foods. | 'Philippine cuisine features a tasty blend of various cultures, a legacy of the country's rich history,' said Emma Ruth Yulo, chief ...
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Support Women's Reservation Bill, Manmohan urges MPs The Hindu | K. Balchand & Sandeep Joshi | NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday announced the government's intention to press for a discussion on the Women's Reservation Bill in the current session of Parliament and appealed to Members of Parliament to support the cause of women. | The Bill is li...
Try something new: Lift the travel ban The Miami Herald | `Only in Miami is Cuba so far away.'' On no other issue are the words of Bette Midler's song truer than on the issue of Cuba travel. The 90 miles between Florida and Cuba are the longest distance between two points, both psychologically and objecti...
Demand in the tourism industry recovering TravelDailyNews | Vacation demand has stabilized for the 2010 summer season in Germany and in the UK in particular, two of the largest tourism source markets in Europe. The greatest growth has been recorded for vacations in Turkey and Egypt. Addi-tionally, cruises a...
U.N. Honors the 101 Who Served and Died in Haiti The New York Times | UNITED NATIONS — It took nearly 15 minutes to read the full roll call of the dead, as a photograph of each person, with the years of their birth and death, flashed on a screen in the darkened hall. White candles flickered on a dais covered wi...
Cuba: A Castro Comrade Is Replaced The New York Times | A general who as a teenager fought alongside Fidel Castro has been replaced as the official in charge of Cuba’s airlines and airports, according to a statement in the Communist Party newspaper Granma. The general, Rogelio Acevedo, 68, was rep...
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U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 1,500 five years ago today Penn Live | March 2, 2010 | Today: is the 61st day of 2010. There are 304 days left in the year. | On this date | In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wi...
Opposition leaders want to help rebuild Haiti The Boston Globe | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Faced with a disaster of overwhelming proportions, Haiti's fractious political opposition is trying to set aside its differences and work with President R...
Cuba replaces head of civil aviation The Press Democrat | Rogelio Acevedo was replaced by Gen. Ramon Martinez Echevarria, the current No. 2 in the Air Force air defense unit, according to an announcement published Tuesday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma. | No reason was given for the change at the...
Cuba replaces head of civil aviation The Miami Herald | HAVANA -- Cuba has replaced the official who oversees the country's airlines and airports, a general who fought alongside Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a teenager, according to a terse statement in official media. | Rogelio Acevedo was ...
Cuba replaces head of civil aviation Wtop | HAVANA (AP) - Cuba has replaced the official who oversees the country's airlines and airports, a general who fought alongside Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a teenager, according to a terse statement in official media. | Rogelio Acevedo ...
XL Airways France represented in the United States through Aviareps TravelDailyNews | XL Airways France will establish its brand in a new market – the United States. For boosting low-cost long-haul flights to Paris, successfully launched in June, 2009, the privately owned airline recently appointed Aviareps as General Sales Agent (GSA) for the US. In this function, the world’s leading aviation and tourism management ex...
