Songkran (Thai New Year) traffic toll

Making the traffic during the Thai Songkran-days safer is one matter, but it is not only the drunk driving. I suppose that the driver of this car was not drunk but he failed proper thinking and a proper...

Get Your Dragon On: Lunar New Year Parades

Happy Year of the Rat- party like it's 4706! Lunar New Year is here, heralded by parades full of color and sound. We'll be checking out parades taking place throughout the world- if you're taking part in one of...

Chinese New Year Celebrations Worldwide

Gung Hay Fat Choy!For millions of Chinese around the world, the Lunar New Year Holiday is the most important time of the year. In 2008, however, unprecedented cold and wild weather throughout China has wreaked...

Definite Plans, Not Resolutions for 2008, A Trip to Europe

What's the point of making New Year's resolutions that you will not keep? I am not making any for this still brand spanking new 2008.  I do have plans though.

Is Eating Dog Stew in Seoul with Tom Parker-Bowles part of your New Year's Re...

Is Eating Dog Stew in Seoul part of your New Year's Resolutions, will you discover Zen or Live Dangerously. New Year's resolutions have now become an industry. David Bodanis offers a few books (not all that new) who fit that trend in Glorious Resolutions (FT Week-End).

fireworks on new year's party in sibiu

fireworks after the Europe concert in the Great Square in Sibiu. Lots of people, lots of fun. sadness for closing sibiu, the european capital of culture 2007 events

Bangladesh Rings In New Year With a Curfew

For many people around the world, New Year's eve means partying, celebrations, and bubbly. Not so for many residents of Dhaka City, the capital of Bangladesh. Many residents here were celebrating New Years under the auspices of a government-imposed curfew. As of 8 pm on New...

Érase Una Vez ....

.... when I was a child and through my teenaged years, during the 50s and 60s, making New Year's resolutions was a really big deal. Everyone always asked, “What resolutions have you made for the new...

Times Square Time Ball Is 100 Years Old This New Year's Eve

Most of the New Years Eve revelers in Times Square (and those watching by television at home) may take the time ball for granted. But the sphere is not merely a countdown device. It is 100 years old this...

New Year 5768

We are entering the year 5768 on the Jewish calendar. The past year has been another troubled and disturbing period in human history. In the Jewish world topics of importance seems to have been Israel, assimilation, anti-Semitism, Iraq war and Iran. In Israel major...

Them & Us

My wife and I were out buying panties yesterday.  Well, actually, she was buying panties and I was just along for the day because, next to having a colonoscopy, there is nothing I’d rather do with my...

Thailand Travel Info: Songkran Water Festival in Thailand

"Songkran Festival Thailand's most celebrated festival is the Songkran Festival. It starts April 13 and lasts between 3 and 10 days, depending on where you are in Thailand. The word Songkran is from the Sanskrit meaning the beginning of a new Solar Year, but nowadays...

Ricardo's Blog: Chinese New Year in Sao Paulo's Japantown

Sao Paulo hosts the largest Japanese community in the world outside of Japan.  In the Liberdade district it is not unusual to find all sorts of Japanese products, food, clotes and pop culture articles. ...

Will You Be a Victim This Break-Up Season?

Valentine’s Day is just over a month away but according to new research from Yahoo! Personals, Cupid is charting a tricky course for the next few weeks. The study shows we are now in National Break-Up Season, the period between the December holidays and Valentine’s Day...

Germany Wants CIA Kidnappers Arrested

"In another embarrassment for the Bush administration's handling of its so-called war on terror, German prosecutors issued on Wednesday, January 31, arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents accused of kidnapping, detaining and torturing a German national of Lebanese origin."

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