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Thailand: $1,099 round trip to Phuket on Singapore Airlines
You can fly to the Thai resort of Phuket on Singapore Airlines, departing from LAX, for $1,099 round trip, including all taxes and fees. The trip must occur between Aug. 18 and Nov. 15. The maximum stay is one month, and the ticket must be purchased...
Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Sriracha documentary: Everything you need to know about the fiery sauce in 30 minutes
Huy Fong Foods Sriracha has become a condiment king over the last 30 years, and Illinois filmmaker Griffin Hammond wants to make sure everyone knows why. Hammond, 28, is making a 30-minute short documentary devoted to the fiery sauce and Huy Fong...
Tags: Entertainment, Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Social Media, Movies
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Around the World in Five Dishes
Conjure Paris and you can’t help but think of croissants, still warm from the oven, their buttery layers so light and crispy they all but melt in your mouth. No matter where you travel, food is a profound, sensuous way to connect to the local...
Tags: Cinnamon, Mexico, French Bread, Tomatoes, Chutney
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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...
Tags: Archaeology, University of Miami, University of California, Los Angeles, Laws, Museums
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Myanmar frees dissidents before leader's U.S. visit
NEW DELHI — Myanmar President Thein Sein released some 20 political prisoners Friday, days before a historic summit with President Obama in Washington early next week, according to officials and prisoner rights groups. The ex-general's...
Tags: Activism, Prisons, Prisoners and Detainees, China, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Cannes Film Festival projects cross-cultural cinema
— Invariably, the Cannes Film Festival chooses a striking image for its official annual poster. But the 2013 version can be seen as a particularly apt metaphor for the dual nature of the world's most essential cinema event. Paris-based graphic...
Tags: Immigration, Margin Call (movie), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Cannes Film Festival, Alec Baldwin
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If you go: Chai Lai Orchid in Mae Wang, Thailand
If you go THE BEST WAY TO CHIANG MAI, THAILAND From LAX, Thai Airways, Korean, Singapore and Cathay Pacific offer connecting service (change of plane) to Chiang Mai. Restricted round-trip airfare begins at $923, including taxes and fees. Chai Lai...Tags: Los Angeles International Airport
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Cannes Notebook 2013: A hotbed of criminal activity too?
CANNES, France — Visitors exiting the Carlton hotel's front door on this city's beachfront main street this week can't help but see a giant map of France with Cannes listed as being a "Safe Zone." "This Is the Safest Place to Be," one poster...
Tags: World War Z (movie), Entertainment, Cannes Film Festival, Film Festivals, Movies
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In Thailand, a resort for the greater good
MAE WANG, Thailand — As we sat together on a long, narrow raft of bamboo, Alexa Pham dipped her hand into the quickly moving river. "It's the really simple things," she said with a long breath, "that make it beautiful here in Mae Wang." Two wiry...
Tags: Refugee, Prostitution, Politics, Sex Crimes, Burma
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Myanmar forces accused of 'ethnic cleansing' as EU ends sanctions
The European Union discarded the last of its economic sanctions against Myanmar on Monday, despite fresh reports that Rohingya Muslims there face bloody and persistent attempts at "ethnic cleansing." The decision worried activists working to help the...
Tags: Flu, Economic Sanctions, Politics, European Union, Skype
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Natalie Gulbis on the health hazards of traveling the world
RANCHO MIRAGE -- Natalie Gulbis, the LPGA golfer who once dated Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, says she feels ready to play Thursday when the season's first women's golf major, the Kraft Nabisco Championship at Mission Hills Country...
Tags: LPGA, Malaria, Ben Roethlisberger
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Saving Cameroon's elephants
Check off another majestic animal species your kids will probably never get to see: The forest elephant of Cameroon. Smaller than savanna elephants and with straighter tusks, the intelligent behemoths are being cut down by poachers at a horrifying pace....
Tags: Yingluck Shinawatra, Endangered Species, Cameroon, Wildlife, Africa
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