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Majestically gracing the Hoan Kiem District of the capital city of Vietnam is the Hanoi Opera House, one of the most prestigious music halls in the world. Photo credit: VietNamNet
The Hanoi Opera House opens for guided tours on 1 June, the VietNamNet reported.
It was built starting in 1901 to plans by French architects and modelled after the famous Palais Garnier concert hall in Paris and ever since has offered its international audiences top-calibre music theatre on some 300 days a year.
A peek behind the scenes of the Hanoi Opera House, reveals lots of things that are otherwise hidden from evening opera-goers. A tour provides lots of interesting information about the rich and vibrant history and architecture.
On the website of the opera house, you can find the times at which the tours in English and Vietnamese are offered. Dates for tours in other languages such as Italian, French, Russian and Japanese can be requested by using the contact details shown.
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Photo of the Day: Helsinki Cathedral (Helsingin tuomiokirkko), the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral, on a October Sunday afternoon; designed by Helsinki’s German-born city architect Carl Ludvig Engel (1778-1849), and finished in 1840. It’s built on a plateau, 62 meters above the ground, on top the massive steps leading up from Senate Square, behind the giant monument and statue of reformist Russian Czar Alexander II (1818-1881), known as Alexander the Liberator, and was Grand Duke of Finland. The statue, by Finnish sculptor Valter Runeberg (1838-1920), was erected in 1884. The top of the steps are nicknamed “The Edge of the Cliff”. Photo by: hovedsteder.blogg.no
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På Banyan Tree Hotels todelte terasse får man et virkelig inntrykk av Bangkoks dimensjoner med med utsikt 360 grader, mens man nyter god mat og drikke på restauranten Vertigo, og venter på solnedgangen, skriver Se og Hør.
Like ved ligger Moon Bar, med utsikt over den thailandske hovedstadens skyskrapere.
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Oslo Vegetarfestival går blir i år arrangert for syvende år på rad, og som vanlig med gode smaker fra hele verden. Vegetarhelgen går av stabelen på DogA/Kulturkirken Jakob 13.-14.mai, skriver Se og Hør.
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Den første sykkelfestivalen i Storbritannia, Spin, som ble arrangert første gang i 2013, går nå av stabelen i London for femte gang.
Festivalen passer for alle som liker å sykle, det være seg i konkuranser eller på en tur i helga, skriver Se og Hør.
Spin blir arrangert 12.-14.mai, og her får du lære om blant annet teknologi og innovasjon innen sykling, samt se og prøve sykler fra hele 150 utstillere.
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The Kingdom Bahrain has decided to set up an embassy in Malaysia to strengthen bilateral relations, The New Straits Times newspaper reported.
Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Ahmed said his government will send a team to the Malaysian capital city Kuala Lumpur to make the necessary arrangements over the next two months.
“Within the next two months, our technical team will come here and look into the right premises and the necessary arrangements to open the embassy,” Sheikh Khalid said during a joint press conference with Malaysia’s Defence Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.
Sheikh Khalid also said Bahrain is taking necessary steps to implement a visa-free travel policy between the two countries.
He added that Bahrain and Malaysia have many similarities, including culture and general atmosphere.
The Foreign Minister is in Malaysia as part of Bahrain’s King Hamad Isa Al Khalifa’s four-day state visit, which began on April 30.
The visit is historic, as it is the first by a Bahraini ruler to Malaysia in 43 years of diplomatic relations.
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Russia has introduced a new tourist pass, PassCity, which will be of use not only to foreign travelers who have come to Russia for a few days, but also to students from overseas and expatriates whose stay extends to a few months and more.
PassCity has apps available for Android and iOS with free audio guides in English and Chinese, the Russia Behind the Headlines – rbth.com website reported.
Apart from admission to museums, the pass gets you free coffee in the DoubleB chain of coffee shops, several trips on the airport express in Moscow, and subway rides in St. Petersburg or by taxi ordered through the Yandex Taxi service.
The Voxxter team spent more than two years developing the pass; while working on it, they established partnerships with Mastercard, Yandex Money, Yandex Taxi (a Russian taxi service similar to Uber, and DoubleB.
PassCity is as easy to use as a regular credit card: It uses the Mastercard payment system, and the chosen package of services is activated upon purchase. You can deposit money on the card and use it to pay for other goods and services: Using an extra credit card instead of your primary card when traveling is a sensible security measure.
Cards are delivered through a system that has recently gained popularity among Internet banks.
“You can order the pass online or through the app, and our courier will deliver it where and when you decide, for instance, your hotel, or the railway station where the airport express arrives. Our customers have confirmed that this is a lot more convenient than having to look for a sales office in an unknown city,” explains Maksim Ivlev, Voxxter CEO.
Voxxter believes the pass could be useful for tourists who come to Russia to watch upcoming sporting events, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
News source: Russia Behind the Headlines – rbth.com
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Photo of the Day: Willemstad, capital of Curacao, a country within the Kingdom of The Netherlands.. Photo credit: unesco.org
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Chinese Capital Airlines will soon be opening a new flight connecting Chinese cities, including the capital city of Beijing, to Lisbon, capital city of Portugal, as the country is witnessing a surge of Chinese tourists, Lisbon newspaper Diario de Noticias reported, according to Global Times
The Portuguese government and Tourism of Portugal is focusing its efforts on China and will soon be opening the flight connecting eastern Chinese city Hangzhou and capital Beijing to Lisbon four times per week.
The flight, taking off in July, was created by HNA Group, a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in Haikou, Hainan, China, which is also Portugal airline TAP’s stakeholder.
Citing figures from Portugal’s tourism department, the report says the number of Chinese tourists visiting Portugal in 2016 was 19.1 percent higher than the previous year. And in the past three years, the number duplicated to over 180,000 at the end of last year.
Moreover, Chinese tourists spent around 72 million euros (76.68 million US dollars) in Portugal last year.
Chinese tourists spend more money than travellers from any other country, according to data released this week by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
News source: Global Times, Xinhua, Diario de Noticias
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China has opened a new embassy complex in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, its “largest overseas” diplomatic mission, which Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi described as a symbol of friendship between the “all weather” allies, the Times of India website reported.
“As China’s largest embassy, it is a symbol of friendship between China and Pakistan,” the state-run China Daily quoted Wang as saying. It however did not provide the details of the new embassy.
China maintains large diplomatic missions abroad including Washington, New York and New Delhi. Its mission in New Delhi has over 300 personnel, according to officials.
The opening of the new Islamabad embassy came as China and Pakistan deepen their relations with the construction of the multi-billion Economic Corridor through Pakistan Kashmir.
The Corridor, which is part of the Silk Road projects proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping aims to connect China’s Xinjiang with Pakistan Gwadar Port in Balochistan province neighbouring Iran.
China also set to construct two 1,100 nuclear reactors with $6.5 billion in addition to the four medium size reactors.
