Travel

P2P bus service, mas mabilis at mas ligtas na paraan ng transportasyon

Ni Aily Milyo Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Muling naglunsad ang Department of Transportation (DOTr) at Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board o LTFRB ng Point to Point o P2P Bus Service. Ang bagong  P2P bus service point ay may ruta mula Robinson’s Novaliches patungong Park Square Makati. Ito na ang pang-limang ruta ng P2P bus. Ang iba pang ruta ng P2P bus service ay sa North Edsa to Makati, dalawa sa Ortigas to Makati […]

US government seeks ban on swimming with Hawaii dolphins

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — US federal officials are seeking a ban on swimming with Hawaii’s spinner dolphins, saying the encounters popular with tourists are harming the sleeping habits of the nocturnal creatures. The proposal by the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would ban swimming with Hawaiian spinner dolphins or approaching the animals within 50 yards. The measure would affect highly popular excursions that allow tourists to […]

Disabled Afghan girl painter dreams of a bright future

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — Like many other young artists her age, 16-year-old Robaba Mohammadi dreams of holding international art exhibitions. The only difference — she draws not with her fingers but with her mouth. She was born with partial paralysis of her limbs and is unable to control her hands and feet, except for a few toes. Mohammadi came from a poor family in Ghazni province who moved to Kabul when she was three after […]

China opens longest glass bottom bridge in world

ZHANGJIAJIE, China (AFP) — Tourists who suffer from vertigo need not apply. The world’s highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge opened Saturday in China’s spectacular Zhangjiajie mountains — the inspiration for American blockbuster Avatar. Some 430 meters (1,400 feet) long and suspended 300 metres above the earth, the bridge spans the canyon between two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie park in China’s central Hunan province. Six metres wide and made of some 99 panels of clear glass, […]

Concrete beach lures Chinese to world’s largest building

CHENGDU, China (AFP) — Claiming to be the world’s largest building by floor space, the 1,760,000 square metres of the New Century Global Center are a monument to growing Chinese consumer power, packed with shoppers — and beach bathers a thousand kilometers from the coast. Home to hundreds of shops, restaurants, offices, a cinema and ice rink, the cavernous building in Chengdu, deep in southwestern China, also hosts a water park featuring a pool modelled […]

Tubbataha Reefs National Marine Park ng Pilipinas tampok sa Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Itinatampok ng Oceanographic Museum of Monaco ang ipinagmamalaking Tubbataha Reefs National Marine Park (TRNMP) ng Pilipinas. Mismong si Prince Albert II ang siyang nagsulong sa inisyatibong ito upang itaas ang kamalayan ng publiko sa isyu ng mga sea turtles. Matatandaang buwan ng Abril ng nagkaroon ng official visit si Prince Albert sa bansa sa imbitasyon ni dating Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III. Sa ilalim ng 360 degrees video expedition ay […]

Captain America returns to his Brooklyn roots

NEW YORK, United States (Reuters) — A bronze, 1-ton, 13-foot-tall Captain America statue was on display in a dedication ceremony in a New York City park on Wednesday (August 10). “I think that it’s absolutely amazing and Captain America means a lot to me because I’m trans and I think that Captain America is trans because he’s like this weak little sickly kid and he gets like this shot that turns him into Superman, he […]

Fewer visitors, more police stroll Paris streets

PARIS, France (AFP)– Paris in August is calmer than most months with the locals on holiday, and this year is proving particularly quiet as tourists who typically flock to the City of Lights aren’t turning out in their usual numbers. The drop coincides with the recent terror attacks in the country, and visitors who have come are noticing an increased security presence.