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- Interactive: Dive the Great Barrier Reef with Google Maps
- First look at Detour 2012: 'Going for the jugular'
- Mascara, meltdowns and math -- what really happens at flight attendant recruitment days
- Why China's rock markets draw a crowd
| Interactive: Dive the Great Barrier Reef with Google Maps Posted: 25 Sep 2012 11:49 PM PDT by Hiufu Wong
Dying to see the Great Barrier Reef but don't fancy the flight Down Under? You may soon want to cast Google Maps in the role of your personal travel savior. For the first time, Google Maps' Street View has ventured beneath the sea to capture six of the world's best living coral reefs -- three along the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, Apo Island in the Philippines, Hanauma Bay in Hawaii and Molokini crater in Maui -- in panoramic, interactive sequences. You can swim with a manta ray, track a turtle or follow a bunch of snorkelers thanks to The Catlin Seaview Survey, a major scientific study of the world's reefs, which used a specially designed camera to capture the images. See the ocean views here: read more     |
| First look at Detour 2012: 'Going for the jugular' Posted: 25 Sep 2012 11:48 PM PDT by Zoe Li
Detour, the annual festival in Hong Kong that celebrates art and design, will try to change the way we perceive and engage with public space, particularly in Wanchai. And they're not going to be subtle about it. "[We will] make the busiest passersby stop in their tracks and remember where they are," says James Reeves, one of the international artists confirmed for the festival, to be held November 30-December 16. "People are just walking around with their [smartphone] screens -- so how do you disrupt that?" The New Orleans-based artist, who arrived in Hong Kong on Monday, is working with Detour's guest curator John Bela and creative director Aidan Li to make a public art project at Detour's main site -- the semi-occupied, 80-year-old Wanchai Police Station. read more    |
| Mascara, meltdowns and math -- what really happens at flight attendant recruitment days Posted: 25 Sep 2012 11:50 AM PDT by Leung Hai Ying Friendly? Attentive? Beautiful? Got the potential to keep your head while ushering 300 nervous breakdowns onto an inflatable slide? You could just be the ideal flight attendant. But you'll have to earn it. An international airline receives an average of 15,000 applications for cabin crew a month, not including those in the cockpit, and recently I was one of them. As well as the promise of a career circling the globe, the process I went through gave me an insight into -- and a huge respect for -- the men and women that fliers so often take for granted. read more    |
| Why China's rock markets draw a crowd Posted: 25 Sep 2012 09:35 AM PDT by Michael Evans Would you spend US$25,000 for a simple rock? Odds are you wouldn't, but with the economy booming in China, plenty of collectors are eyeing just such treasures. And at just such gaudy price tags. More than 300 rock markets and exhibitions are held throughout China annually, according to the China Stone Appreciation Association, generating an estimated RMB 20 billion (US$3.17 billion) each year.
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The Wanchai Police Station will be the main site of Detour 2012. Still partly in use by the police force, Detour will get the ground and first floors.| You are subscribed to email updates from CNNGo.com To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary digs in the historical Po Hing Fong. It's now a bakery.There's a new funky neighborhood in Hong Kong around Po Hing Fong, in Sheung Wan District.
