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Art deco marineland closes
Thousands of people took the opportunity to say goodbye to Napier, New Zealand's Marineland yesterday before it shut its doors for the last time...
Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Relief for oz mortgage holders
An overhaul of consumer credit rules to be announced today will make it easier for people who lose their job to envoke a "hardship" clause to seek relief from demands to meet mortgage and other loan repayments...
Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Film fest
Asia's hottest blockbusters arrive in Udine on Friday with the 11th edition of the Far East Film Festival...
Mon, Apr 27, 2009
Backpacker market booming
Whilst there is an ever increasing trend to take ‘stay-cations'- which are holidays at home or closer to home, the credit crunch hasn't been all doom and gloom for the tourism industry - whilst fewer people are booking luxury trips abroad -the budget backpacker market is booming...
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
One foot in the grave
A picturesque beauty spot in southern Italy has had so many requests from Italian and foreign tourists to be buried there they have agreed to sell 150 tombs - and that's not all - each tomb will be wired with long distance technology to allow relatives to keep in touch with their buried loved ones...
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
River of dreams
After years of violence, Afghanistan may seem like an unlikely tourist hotspot, but, in a bid to attract more visitors, a collection of stunning mountain lakes in the country's peaceful central highlands have been earmarked as the first National Park...
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
Messina bridge: quake proof?
The amount of money earmarked for the Government's Messina Bridge project would be enough to make the region it will be built from earthquake-proof, Calabria Governor Agazio Loiero has said...
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
Japan must kick the habit
Poorly built and often cramped, most Japanese houses barely make it past their fifteenth year, but, as homeowners knock them down and start again, more than £140 billion of household wealth vanishes into thin air every year...
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
Big apple crunches jobs
Up to 10,000 housebuilding jobs in New York could be lost, if the city's mayor's proposed 30 per cent cut to the city's capital-spending budget is implemented, according to the New York Building Congress (NYBC)...
Fri, Apr 24, 2009