People
Green Way of Life for Victoria Resorts
When staying at Victoria’s boutique resorts in Vietnam and Cambodia, you sense an air of care for the local environment and the community. Facilities are provided within resort lobbies for villagers to demonstrate their art and display handmade handicrafts such as thatched blankets and silver trinkets for sale. Eric Simard tells us of Victoria's green commitment.
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Places
Malaysia Boleh - Penang World Music Festival
Traditions came alive to throb the unassuming island of Penang at the second World Music Festival on 2-4 May featuring 11 international bands and 4 local ones. What makes the concert such a hit with kids, youths even grandpas to astound even the performers themselves?
From Dread to Dive Masters
It is not everyday we hear stories of disadvantaged youths getting that golden opportunity to turn their lives around, some of them victims of the Asian Tsunami. Just after a nine month stint at the Ecotourism Training Centre in Kao Lak, Thailand, ordinary youths are transformed to become masters of the sea. >> More
Planet
Precarious villages on stilts
Although you don’t find people still hunting mammoths with spears, you can still find people fishing in exactly the same way they did thousands of years ago. Bang Pat in Phrang Nha National Park, Thailand. Kompong Phluk in Prasat Bakong, Cambodia, and Kukup Village, Johor State, Malaysia. But today, bad habits choke and pollute the waters.
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Tummy Ache? Blame it on Biodiversity Loss
Thanks to a kind of frog that can no longer be found, millions of people suffering from peptic ulcers have lost a chance to heal better.
The southern gastric brooding frog (Rheobatrachus) discovered in the Australian rainforests in the 1980s intrigued scientists with its ability to raise its young in the stomach where enzymes and acids could have digested them instead....
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