If you have beautiful flowing locks and are travelling around Rio de Janeiro, then be careful as recently, scissor-wielding thieves cut off the waist long dark brown hair of a 22-year-old Brazilian woman as she rode in a city bus. “We got on at the same stop and they sat behind me,” sales assistant Mirna…

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The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to the Fijian capital Suva because of tensions in the relationship between the Government of Fiji and the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. The Fiji Military Commander has issued an ultimatum demanding that the Government resigns during November. On 1 November, the Prime…

Thailand has changed its immigration rules to deter foreigners from 41 countries, including the UK, from working illegally on tourist visas. The old arrangement allowed visa-free tourist entry for 30 days. Many tourists were taking advantage of this by leaving Thailand every 30 days to a neighbouring country and then returning. Under new regulations it…

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Eleven employees at Indian Airways have recently been grounded for putting on too much weight. The airline which is being taken to court over the legality of firing its air hostesses for being too fat, claim that they should be able to select the ‘best ambassadors’ to represent the national airline, and the country as…

Although Japanese Christians make up only 1% of the country’s population, about 90% of weddings in Japan are in the Christian style, complete with the words, “you may now kiss the bride” and the big white dress. There appears to be something of a roaring trade for Europeans to act as fake priests presiding at…

The first of a planned series of tsunami early warning buoys is being put down in the Indian Ocean. The buoy, provided by the US, (who already operate a similar system in the Pacific Ocean) is being placed between Thailand and Sri Lanka, two of the countries worst-hit by the 2004 tsunami which killed more…

Dubai-based Emirates will become the first airline to allow passengers to make mobile phone calls on its flights. Emirates expects to launch the service on one of its Boeing 777 planes as early as January next year. The news comes just months after Ryanair announced it planned to launch a similar service in mid-2007 –…

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