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Asia Briefing: Thailand weighs up impact of shrine bombing on tourism

Edit The Irish Times 25 Aug 2015
The bomb that devastated the Erawan shrine in downtown Bangkok recently can be expected to have an effect on an economy previously seen as almost invulnerable despite upheavals, unrest and natural disasters. Bouncing back after the explosion is going to be tough for the country ... Irish visitors ... Sun Lichan from Haitao Travel told the China Daily that the Erawan shrine was less popular with tour groups than it used to be ... ....

No drop seen in planned Thailand visits

Edit China Daily 19 Aug 2015
China's major tour operators are reporting no major cancellations of planned group trips to Thailand after explosions rattled Bangkok on Monday and Tuesday. Six Chinese citizens - four from the Chinese mainland and two from Hong Kong - were killed in the explosion on Monday at Erawan Shrine ... Sun Lichan from Haitao Travel said the peak season for travel to Thailand does not start until October ... suzhou@chinadaily.com.cn....

MERS deals travel agents blow

Edit China Daily 06 Jun 2015
Forty-one South Koreans have now tested positive for MERS and deaths increased to four on Friday, the country's Health Ministry said ... Experts predicted the number will continue to rise nationwide. Sun Lichan, director of marketing for Haitao Travel, said more than 50 percent of the customers who ordered trips to the ROK have requested cancellations. "To address their demands, we have worked out three solutions," she said ... ....

Visitation likely to drop after destruction

Edit China Daily 27 Apr 2015
The number of Chinese tourists visiting Nepal is likely to fall sharply following the earthquake, according to travel industry sources ... "Nepal is more attractive to backpackers than to tourist groups ... Haitao Travel has confirmed the safety of 100 members of three tourist groups it was hosting in Nepal, and flew one of the groups to Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Sunday, according to Sun Lichan, the agency's marketing director ...   ....

DEVO: Rivera takes fourth at Omloop van het Hageland (USA Cycling Inc)

Edit noodls 10 Mar 2015
(Source. USA Cycling Inc) (March 10, 2015) - Coryn Rivera (Tustin, Calif./UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling) narrowly missed the podium at the Omloop van het Hageland on Sunday in Belgium, recording the top USA Cycling National Development Program (NDP) result of 2015 ... Rivera finished in a nine-woman pack at the Omloop van het Hageland, taking fourth in 3.03.16 behind Jolien d'Hoore (BEL), Chantal Blaak (NED) and Sara Mustonen-Lichan (SWE)....

India's nightingales to ring in leading music director's 72nd birthday

Edit DNA India 28 Feb 2015
Dr Ravindra Jain. This weekend, the film music industry will be celebrating the 72nd birthday of one of India's leading music directors, Dr Ravindra Jain. Leading singers from the country will be participating in this specially organised 'Ravindra Sangeet Sandhya' ... I did several songs with both these legends ... He also authored "Ujalon Ka Silsila' and 'Sunhare Pal', which are based on his memories ... ....

Congress has lost the battle of perception, Jairam Ramesh says

Edit The Times of India 03 Apr 2014
NEW DELHI ... He acknowledged that it is a "challenging" campaign in the elections ahead but maintained that the party would get a decent, dignified and respectable three-digit number ... "Our reaction was also slow ... Dubbing "the opinion poll projections as Narendra Modi's sunhare sapane (golden dreams)", he said Congress is unfazed by the opinion polls which have always "overrated" the performance of the BJP, may it be in 2004 or in 2009 ... ....
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