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Hong Kong’s Special Administrative Region

By Robert Schrader on August 30, 2011 in Asia, California, China, Featured, Hong Kong, North America, Photos, San Francisco/Bay Area, Shanghai, Singapore, USA

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  Hong Kong was the first of a group of countries and places I like to call the “pockets” — other examples include Singapore and Tel Aviv — I visited: countries and cities surrounded by societies...

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Women Farmers Key To End Food Insecurity

By Danielle Nierenberg on August 25, 2011 in Africa, Asia, India, Photos, South Africa

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It may seem surprising, but women are responsible for growing at least 70 percent of India’s food. Despite the enormous responsibility of feeding their country, women farmers confront numerous economic and cultural barriers every day...

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The High Cost of Travel in Brazil

By Robert Schrader on August 24, 2011 in Brazil, Featured, Lodging, Photos, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, South America

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Brazil used to be cheap. I met two Swedish girls at the Lemon Spirit Hostel in Rio de Janerio, where a dorm bed runs about R$30 per night, that a three-star hotel room on Copacabana...

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The Restless Generation…

By Shivya Nath on August 24, 2011 in Asia, Europe, India, North America, Photos, Southeast Asia, USA

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Packing your bags and moving half way, or in my case, a quarter of the way, across the globe has a thrill to it that’s hard to explain. At 17, I left my small hometown...

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Cambodia: Survivors, Temples and Trees

By Robert Schrader on August 23, 2011 in Asia, Cambodia, Featured, Photos, Southeast Asia

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Before I visited Cambodia, most of what I heard about traveling there were warnings: the foreboding chronicles of buried, unexploded objects detonating when tourist vehicles drove over them; the harrowing tale of a co-worker’s pregnant...

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The Birth of Kazakhstan Tourism

By Sherry Ott on August 23, 2011 in Asia, Europe, Kazakhstan, Photos

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“You tourist?” This is the most asked question of us in Kazakhstan. The crazy thing is that it’s asked everywhere; on the street, in hotels, and even as we are driving down the street other cars...

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Tweeting #Budapest on St. Stephen’s Day in Real Time (country & city-side)

By Renee Blodgett on August 20, 2011 in Budapest, Europe, Events, Featured, Festivals, Hungary, Photos

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Long days and long nights since I arrived in Hungary, as we discuss technology, coffee, business and pancakes in the morning, strategy over melt balls and cake in the early afternoon, bridges, ice cream and...

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Vegetarian Gastronomia in Western Europe

By Shivya Nath on August 20, 2011 in Austria, Europe, Featured, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Photos

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Whoever says a traveling vegetarian couldn’t survive in Western Europe obviously isn’t one. Get ready to take your vegetarian taste buds on a wallet-happy gastronomic journey through Europe. 1. France I’m vegetarian: Je suis une végetarienne It’s probably harder to...

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