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South Korea’s Incheon International Airport was voted the best in the world for 2009 in an annual survey dominated by Asian airports. The survey, by British-based consultancy Skytrax, covered more than 190 airports and is based on the results from 8.6 million passenger questionnaires completed from 2008 to 2009. ‘Incheon is an airport that has [...]

Jakarta – Indonesian police have arrested 70 migrants from Afghanistan seeking asylum in Australia, a police officer said Friday.
The Afghans were arrested late Thursday at a hotel in the resort area of Anyer in West Java, said Retno Windarti, an officer in the Cilegon district.
“They said they wanted to go to Australia – Indonesia is [...]

Colombo – The BBC World Service on Tuesday stopped providing radio news to Sri Lanka’s state broadcaster because of what it calls “deliberate interference” by government censors.
A statement from the BBC said that its FM broadcasts to the Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation have been suspended with effect from Tuesday.
The move came after many of [...]

Ankara – The number of Israeli tourists visiting Turkey has fallen drastically in the wake of Turkey’s harsh reactions to Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip, the Dogan news agency reported on Friday.
Around 3,000 Israeli tourists flew into the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya in January, a fall of almost 60 per cent compared [...]

Melbourne, Jan 7 (ANI): Anti-government protests that shut down Bangkok’s airports last year have cost Thailand 11.5 billion dollars, much more than loses suffered during the Tsunami or SARS, a central bank study has said.
Demonstrators opposed to the previous government’s ties to ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra occupied the capital’s international and domestic airports for [...]

Jakarta – Indonesia’s consumer price index in December declined 0.04 per cent against the previous month, driven by lower costs of transportation and communication, a senior government official said Monday.
The 2008 annual inflation rate was 11.06 per cent, said Ali Rosidi, deputy chairman of the Central Bureau of Statistics.
Rosidi said the December deflation was due [...]

Bangkok – Thailand’s leading spas, hit by the decline in tourist arrivals this peak season, are offering 50 per cent discounts to clients until February 28, media reports said Monday.
The Thai Spa Association, comprising 13 of Thailand’s best-known spas and spa resorts, is offering “Happy Spa-ing” discount coupons to anyone who downloads them from [...]

Rajkot (Gujrat), Jan. 3 (ANI): Unexpected rains have affected Rajkot’’s onion crop severely causing a sharp rise in the prices of the product.
Just a month ago, onions were priced at seven rupees per kg. Now it is soared to 22 rupees per kilogram.
Untimely rains have also affected the production of the crop in [...]

Kathmandu  – Nepal’s tourism industry recorded strong growth in 2008, making it the most successful year for the industry in eight years, tourism officials said Friday.
The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said preliminary figures for the year showed total tourist arrivals for 2008 were around 550,000, but added that full report was still being prepared.
“The total [...]