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Eureka! or doh! Man-made islands proposed for Hong Kong
Gut it out: Shanghai fish market tutorial
6 in-flight myths, busted
旅游启示录：你会去哪里庆祝“世界末日”？
Gallery: India's coolest Ambassador cars
B-grade cuisine: Japan's bizarre foodie fad
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Eureka! or doh! Man-made islands proposed for Hong Kong

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 09:53 PM PST

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It is probably the most desperate proposal yet. The Hong Kong government has listed 25 sites for reclamation, including building artificial islands à la Dubai, to ease land shortage.

Sites range from 10 hectares in size to a mega artificial island larger than the area reclaimed for Hong Kong International Airport.

The list will be whittled down to 10 by mid-year for feasibility studies and further consultation.

Civil Engineering Office head Edwin Tong Ka-hung forecasts the Hong Kong population will reach 8.9 million by 2039. This would require an additional 4,500 hectares of land to meet development needs.

Gut it out: Shanghai fish market tutorial

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:57 PM PST

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One of Shanghai's biggest fish markets, the 24-hour Tongchuan Lu sells the freshest seafood in the city.

Alongside lively locals and pungent aromas, you can bag an array of live fish to take home, or straight to one of the market's local dining haunts to be cooked up.

What to buy

Faced with a sea of vendors on arrival at this fish market, it's hard to know where to start. Our advice? Take a deep breath and dive in.

Get the freshest seafood around by buying your own live fish at the Tongchuan Fish Market. Then take it straight to one of the local dining haunts to be cooked up.

6 in-flight myths, busted

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:01 PM PST

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From the moment you enter an aircraft you are pummeled with instructions: turn your phone off, put your window blind up, put your seat upright, eat this slop.

How often do you stop to question why?

Airlines aren't trying to make travel painful. There's a good reason for nearly every in-flight burden.

1. Why flight attendants talk like cyborgs

Myth: Flight attendants are bossy robots.

Fact: Flight attendants need you to listen and cooperate.

旅游启示录：你会去哪里庆祝“世界末日”？

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

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有些人看到神灵的启示，有些人看到的却是商机。

2012年12月21日是玛雅人"长历法"第五周期的终结。尽管有些人或许心怀恐惧，毅然决然，而另一些人却已准备好到玛雅人的故乡以游山玩水的方式来迎接世界末日。

《拉丁美洲先驱论坛报》称，墨西哥政府预计2012年将有5200万游客前往该国的五个地区观光，它们分别是恰帕斯(Chiapas)、犹坎坦(Yucatan)、金塔纳罗奥(Quintana Roo)、塔巴斯科(Tabasco)和坎佩切(Campeche)。

据墨西哥政府报告，这个旅游人数的大幅增长是总统费利佩·卡尔德龙(Felipe Calderon)批准的 "2012玛雅世界游"计划中的一部分，该旅游计划旨在将墨西哥作为独具特色的旅游目的地来宣传推广。

所以，要是你还在踌躇到哪里去花掉生命中最后一块钱旅资，或是只想看看12月21日到来又平安度过时那些人的脸上会是什么表情，我们倒是知道墨西哥内外的几个地方，值得你去兜一兜。

Gallery: India's coolest Ambassador cars

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:00 PM PST

Artists, designers and luxury hotels are giving India's iconic automobile a new ticket to ride

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Getting into an Ambassador is like getting into a time machine. Since it was first manufactured by Kolkata-based Hindustan Motors (HM) in the late 1950s in India, as a copy of the Oxford Morris, this automobile has seen few modifications and stylistic changes.

Affectionately called the "Amby" these cars are jokingly referred to as elephants for their slowness and size, and remain the wheels of choice for the Indian army officers and and government ministers.

(Resist joke allegorizing the efficiency of the government and its favorite mobile.)

Minister Karan Singh Tanwar claims that the all-white government Ambassador still commands respect.

"I still have a white Ambassador and I love it," he declares. "It is pure India and total VIP."

B-grade cuisine: Japan's bizarre foodie fad

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 01:55 PM PST

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"B-grade food" -- try saying it a couple of times; it's just plain weird, implying something less than great. Yet, it's so accepted in Japan as a desirable class of food, you don't even have to make an effort to find examples.