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agoda.com, Asia’s leading hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), today announced a selection of deals on hotels in Davao for the Philippines' Kadayawan Festival. Singapore (PRWEB) August 22, 2012 agoda.com, Asia’s leading hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), today announced a selection of deals on hotels in Davao for the Philippines' Kadayawan Festival. From now until the end of September, Kadayawan...
The 1st Washington State Summit on US-India Trade & Commerce is being organized by the Washington State and India Trade Relations Action Committee (WASITRAC) in collaboration with the Seattle Center Foundation, Consulate General of India in San Francisco, City of Seattle, Port of Seattle, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foster School of Business and University of Washington to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Seattle Center and Seattle’s First World Fair.In the two-day...
TYSONS CORNER, Va., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- INDUS Corporation (INDUS), a leading provider of Information Technology (IT) solutions to the Federal Government, today announced the appointment of Esther Burgess to the position of Vice President, GWAC/IDIQ Programs. In this position, Ms. Burgess will be responsible for leveraging INDUS' GWAC and IDIQ contracts to help fuel the company's growth in the Federal information technology market. Shiv Krishnan, INDUS Chairman and...
Bucking the global trend, some Asian glaciers on Karakoram’s mountains are getting thicker, according to researchers. A French team used satellite images to show that the Karakoram glaciers, located west of the Himalayan region, were putting on mass. It is still unclear why these glaciers are gaining weight. The glaciers in other parts of the Himalayas are following the global trend and losing mass. The glaciers in this region remain poorly studied, despite the fact they provide...
Explore Tibet launched its website tibetexploretour.com recently and offers affordable Tibet tours in 2012. (PRWEB) April 07, 2012 Explore Tibet launched its website tibetexploretour.com recently and offers new affordable Tibet tours in 2012. Tibet is a mysterious place for most people due to its unique culture and tradition. Tibet has a history of more than three thousands of years. Moreover, most Tibetan people are friendly and hospitable. However, it is not convenient for foreigners...
CHANGZHOU, China, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Cooper Industries, a fortune 500 company, held a grand opening ceremony for its wholly-owned subsidiary Cooper Electric (Changzhou) Co., Ltd on March 7, 2012 in Changzhou National Hi-Tech District (CND), Jiangsu Province, China. With a total investment of US$37.5 million, Cooper Electric (Changzhou) started construction in December 2010 and will have an annual capacity of 95,000 explosion-proof control apparatuses, 60,000...
BOSTON, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Grand Circle Travel (GCT), the leader in international travel and discovery for Americans 50+, is pleased to announce significant savings on its 2012 "China & Yangtze River Cruise Tour." Couples will save $600 on all 2012 departures, while solo travelers will enjoy free single supplements on the base program and all optional extensions. Costs for the 21-day cruise tour begin at $3445, or just $165 per day, including international airfare,...
LUSHAN, China, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The 2011 China (International) Urban Development Co-operation and Tourism Destination Brand Marketing Summit was held in Sanya, Hainan province from the 19th to the 22nd of November 2011. This is the first major annual meeting bringing together advertisers in the travel field from both within and outside of China. The event was jointly hosted by the China Association of National Advertisers - Tourism Advertisers Branch, the...
Studies of ant populations in Borneo reveal an unexpected resilience to areas of rainforest degraded by repeated intensive logging, a finding which conservationists hope will lead governments to conserve these areas rather than allow them to be cleared and used for cash crop plantations. Leaf litter ants are often used to measure the overall ecological health of an area because of the large number of species present and because the health of the leaf litter is a good indication of the...
BEIJING, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Care Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: MDCE) - In the Pearl River Delta region of Southern China, construction of a six year, $304 billion plan is underway that will combine nearly one hundred fifty major infrastructure projects (including transportation, water, energy and telecommunications networks) into an economic powerhouse with four times the population of New York City. Earlier this year ground was broken on a high speed rail system that will...
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The Persian Gulf is located in the western part of Asia between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It’s an addition to the Indian Ocean. The Gulf was the focal point of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, which each side assaulted the other’s oil tankers. In the year 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was known as the “Persian Gulf War” or otherwise known as the “Gulf War”, despite the fact that this disagreement was mainly a land conflict, when Iraq raided Kuwait...
Yunnanosaurus, meaning "Yunnan lizard," is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur from the Early to Mid Jurassic Period. This was perhaps one of the last living prosauropods of the time. It was discovered by Yang Zhongjian in the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China. The find consisted of twenty incomplete skeletons, including two skulls, and were excavated by Tsun Yi Wang. The type species, Y huangi, was named by C.C. Young in 1942, and created the family Yunnanosauridae based on the findings as a...
Lufengosaurus, meaning "Lufeng lizard", is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early and Middle Jurassic Period of what is now southwestern China. It was named by C. C. Young in 1941. The type species, L. huenei, was discovered in the Lower Lufeng Formation of the Yunnan Province in China. Young described and named a second species a few years later. This is one of the few prosauropod dinosaurs to survive from the Early Jurassic into the Middle Jurassic eras. Lufengosaurus was about 20...
The Marco Polo Sheep (Ovis ammon polii), is a subspecies of sheep, specifically the Argali. These sheep are found only in the Pamir Mountains in the border region of China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Some of the protected areas where the species occurs include the Khunjerab National Park and Central Karakoram National Park in northern Pakistan and the Taxkongau Nature Reserve in southwestern China. The Marco Polo sheep is particularly known for its long horns. The longest horn...
The Himalayan Tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus), is a large ungulate and a close relative to the wild goat. Its native habitat is in the rugged wooded hills and mountain slopes of the Himalaya from northern India to Tibet. They spend the summers grazing in high pastures, then come down the mountains and form mixed-sex herds in the winter. Feral Himalayan Tahrs are an introduced species in the South Island of New Zealand, with herds forming in the Southern Alps. The rarity of this mammal in its...
