The key to communications is to have people receive the message you intended to send — but here are a few times that the message may have been lost in translation — or worse yet, maybe it wasn’t. Check out what we found around the web.
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Buy, buy shopper. That appears to be the motto for some tour guides in Hong Kong, according to the China’s National Tourism Adminstration. An undated video of Chinese tourists being forced to buy things in Hong Kong shops has ignited outrage on the mainland, according to media reports. Now the NTA in China has...
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The news continues to be the same. The BP Oil crisis continues, Michael Jackson is still dead and Toyota is recalling yet another car. Yawn. What’s a person to do? Travel, that’s what. Anna Kramer, a Masters student at the University of Washington, was awarded the Bonderman Travel Fellowship. What does this mean for...
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While the rest of the world may know about the six month world expo in China, Americans just don't care. But they should, they should be nice to their future rulers.
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News reports are still filtering in from India’s most deadly air crash in more than a decade. It appears 158 people died when a Boeing 737 spit in half and caught fire, crashing into the ground after over shooting the runway by more than 2000 feet. Reports suggested Sunday that investigators have found the...
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Don't want to tour Thai temples filled with dead bodies? Well, some airlines may accommodate you and not charge you an arm and a leg to dump your ticket or change it to some place safer, like, Vietnam.
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Steve Wynn can’t help himself. The man just opens hotels. Today, he will officially kick open the doors of the Encore at Wynn Macau, China. “The loveliest hotel in the world is not in London, Paris, Tokyo, New York or San Francisco,” Wynn said in a news release. “It is here in Macau.” The...
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The president of Poland, his wife and many of the country's top government officials died in a horrible plane crash in Russia. They were heading to honor 22,000 polish officers killed by Soviet secret service 70 years ago today.
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A deadly bombing rips through Moscow, killing at least 35 people -- so how should you deal with it if you're heading to Russia? Keep your mouth and your opinions to yourself.
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Malaysia has just gotten a little more dangerous according to the U.S. embassy there. Tourists are encouraged to be cautious and watch out for pirates and terrorists, who may not have American interests in mind.
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