BEIJING (AP) -China’s capital Beijing is banning fireworks of all types during a more than three-month period around this summer’s Olympic Games.
The order extends an existing ban in the city center to the capital’s sprawling suburbs, where many of the Olympic events are being held, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
Dealers will be forced to suspend sales and store their stock in specially designated warehouses from July 1 to Oct. 8, Xinhua said.
The ban is the latest in a raft of security measures ordered to ensure the Aug. 8-24 games go off without a hitch. Some of those have drawn the ire of the IOC, foreign residents, sponsors and broadcast rights holders, including increasing scrutiny over visas and limits on live coverage in Tiananmen Square.
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Broadly, the term medical tourism can be defined as traveling to farther outposts to avail of quality medical care. Nowadays, several countries have emerged as preferred destinations for medical tourism due to their tremendous technological leaps in the same. Mostly, the patients can hail from as far as America, EU, Canada, Japan or the Middle East. The countries who find themselves on the tourism radar are India, Singapore, Philippines and Costa Rica, Colombia and the like. Usually, these are the countries which have been associated with local medicinal knowledge dating back to thousands of years. Countries like India had ancient surgery systems in place introduced first by Charaka, a surgeon par excellence. Coming to the present, people travel all over from western countries to these newly emerging treatment destinations because of the low cost factor.
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CHENNAI: Move over eco-tourism, tsunami tourism is here. The Tamil Nadu government is considering options to turn tsunami-affected villages into memorials of the disaster that killed thousands along the Indian coast on December 26, 2004.
The aim is to preserve the memories of pre-tsunami days and educate visitors about the devastating impact the disaster had on these places. Tsunami tourism will also prevent these places from being completely forgotten.
Areas like Mamallapuram, Poompuhar, Marina, MGR Thittu and Chinnavaykal, which bore the brunt of killer waves, are proposed to be developed - in association with the local administration - as places of tourist interest. “We will partly fund the projects,” said Tamil Nadu’s tourism secretary, Irai Anbu.
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A number of organizations in the country have come out in support of the United States’ decision to lift its travel warning for Indonesia, and hope the policy reversal will benefit trade between the countries.
During a recent press conference, the Indonesia-United States Committee (KIKAS) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia (AmCham) said direct, personal contact between business people from the two nations was key to strengthening existing commercial relations and encouraging new investment and trade.
“This action by the U.S. will be good for business in Indonesia. It will help bring more American investment and help achieve our development goals.” said KIKAS chairman Sofjan Wanandi.
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