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By Michael Rank North Korea is spreading its net wider in its quest to attract more tourists from China, and now has its eye on the southern province of Guangdong as well as Shanghai. A Chinese website (link here) reports that a delegation of North Korean[...]

Air pollutants which travel from a country like China, the world's top producer of CO2 who also happens to be exempt from Kyoto because they insist they are a developing nation, impact the USA and then on to Europe, says a new report by the National Research[...]

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray - Sep. 10 (News Report) - Air travel is expected to at least double by the middle of the century as new airlines spring up in developing countries like China and rich countries like Britain expand airports such as Heathrow. However[...]

REPORT - PATA Travel Mart - HANGZHOU: PATA Travel Mart 2009 is open for business - with more than 1,000 Buyers, Sellers and media attending this year’s event in Hangzhou, China

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AP - China has banned foreign tourists from traveling to Tibet ahead of a parade in the capital to mark 60 years of Communist rule, an official said Tuesday, amid stepped-up security across the country to ensure nothing mars the celebrations.

In efforts to ensure that nothing disturbs the Oct. 1 national celebrations, Tibet will be closed to foreigners. No ban has been announced for Xinjiang

Beijing - China has suspended foreign tourism to China's Tibet Autonomous Region before next week's celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, sources said on Tuesday. The government notified travel agencies in the region...[...]

AFP - China has barred foreigners from travelling to Tibet until after sensitive October 1 celebrations marking the 60th birthday of communist China, a government tourism office and travel agents said Tuesday.

Rule #one: when you're hurtling through the desert trying to make up for lost time - stick to the road. Rule #two: if you do decide to go off-road maintain some kind of awareness where the road heading. Rule #three: don't take photos of anything unless[...]