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All areas in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur is safe for tourists to visit, Tourism and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said today after the Australian government advised it’s citizens heading this way to be on the alert for terrorism, reports the malaymailonline.com website. Earlier today, the federal government in Canberra posted a travel advisory on its website that terrorists may be planning attacks in and around Kuala Lumpur. In response, minister Nazri said the practice of issuing a travel advisory is “not abnormal” and that local authorities are working round the clock and beefing up security amid reports of potential terror attacks.
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Longyearbyen
Lokalstyret på Svalbard vurderer å bruke 22 millioner kroner på nye boliger, skriver nrk.no
– Boligmarkedet på Svalbard er allerede ganske tøft, sier lokalstyreleder Arild Olsen (Ap). Onsdag fikk 30 beboere i et hybelhus i Longyearbyen to timer på seg til å evakuere.
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Belgrade
The year started with breaking records when it comes to Belgrade's Tourism Fair, Serbian Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said when opening the 38th International Tourism Fair in Belgrade Thursday, reports the B92 radio station, based in the Serbian capital. The fair is set to run through February 21.
This concerns "both in the number of participants and the number of countries our guests come from," the minister explained."Tourism received its rightful place in Serbia, thanks to policies pursued by the government. Last year, we were able to talk about tourism not just for the duration of the fair, but also all year round," Ljajic said.
Tourism Minister Ljajic pointed out that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was opening the Tourism Fair the second time, "a proof of the event's significance." Serbia will invest € 10 million in the Danube this year to arrange the infrastructure and make the river a part of regional tourism, the Serbian prime minister announced as he addressed the event.
"The priorities for this year will be investments in spa infrastructure, roads and mountain resort infrastructure – in particular on Mt. Stara Planina – and sprucing up the city centers and facades in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Nis to make them the best city break destinations," he said.
"We will invest in the Danube by the end of this year and in the beginning of the next, in particular in the sections from Apatin to Beska and from Smederevo to Kladovo," Vucic said, thanking Slovenia – a tourism powerhouse and a partner country of the fair – from which he said Serbia has still much to learn.
Tourism is one of the most significant economic sectors for Belgrade and it registered record revenues last year, Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali said, adding that the Serbian capital is among the top ten tourism destinations in the region.
Speaking at the opening of the fair, the mayor noted that Belgrade has been named one of the top three conference tourism destinations. "The goal is to break the records in the number of guests and tourism revenue this year," mayor Mali said, adding that there were 14 percent more tourists last year compared to 2014.
"There are reasons for optimism. There were 76 hotels in Belgrade in November 2014, while there are 89 today," Mali said, adding that one out of ten employees in Serbia works in the tourism sector.
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London er kåret til verdens mest populære by, for femte gang i løpet av de siste sju årene. Det er Mastercard sin årlige rangering av verdens mest besøkte byer som altså igjen plasserer den britiske hovedstaden på topp. Til sammen 132 byer er rangert, og Mastercard setter opp listen utifra antall besøkende og hvor mye hver enkelt besøkende bruker under besøket.
London hadde utrolige 18,820,000 besøkende i 2015, og de besøkende la igjen til sammen hele 13,3 milliarder pund – nær 163,6 milliarder kroner.Londons svært profilerte borgermester Boris Johnson, sier dette til britiske medier i forbindelse med kåringen:
"I’m delighted that London has proudly held on to this coveted title, as we celebrate another triumphant and record-breaking year for tourism in the city. With its unrivalled mix of history, culture, culinary gems and cutting-edge creativity, I’m confident that these accolades will keep coming as the capital continues to surprise and excite visitors from all over the world."
Her er verdens mest populære byer i 2015 – fiølge Mastercard
1. London – 18,82 millioner besøkende 2. Bangkok – 18,24 millioner 3. Paris – 16,06 millioner 4. Dubai – 14,26 millioner 5. Istanbul – 12,56 millioner 6. New York – 12,27 millioner 7. Singapore – 11,88 millioner 8. Kuala Lumpur – 11,12 millioner 9. Seoul – 10,35 millioner 10.Hongkong – 8,66 millioner
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USA og Cuba underskrev tirsdag en avtale som åpner for ruteflygninger mellom de to landene for første gang på mer enn 50 år, melder nrk.no
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Norwegian documentary filmmaker Benjamin Ree's portrait of Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is one of several hot titles in Berlin for Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk, reports the hollywoodreporter.com
Magnus, a feature documentary on world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, 25, has been snatched up by multiple buyers at the Berlin International Film Festival, one of several strong sellers from Scandinavian sales outfit TrustNordisk.
Magnus sold to Germany, Austria, Hong Kong, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
The film, which explores Magnus Carlsen's rise from bullied boy to grandmaster, also features chess stars Garry Kasparov from Russia and Viswanathan Anand from India.
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Foto: Claus Bech / Scanpix Danmark / Reuters / NTB
Flere hundre mennesker samlet seg i kveld på Østerbro i København for å minnes ofrene for terrorangrepene for ett år siden, skriver nrk.no
Det ble lagt ned blomster ved kulturhuset Krudttønden, før folk gikk mot synagogen. Underveis ble det tent 1800 lykter.
Tidligere på dagen ble det kunngjort at det skal settes opp en minneplate i Folketinget for å hedre de to terrorofrene.
Den danske filmskaperen og dokumentaristen Finn Nørgaard ble skutt og drept da en mann angrep kultursenteret Krudttønden i Servidslevvej på Østerbro, der et seminar om ytringsfrihet gikk av stabelen. Blant gjestene var den mye omtalte svenske tegneren Lars Vilks. Flere politimenn ble skadet i angrepet.
Senere samme dag ble den 37 år gamle vaktmannen Dan Uzan skutt og drept under et angrep mot den jødiske synagogen i Krystallgade ved Nørreport, der 80 gjester var samlet for å feire bar mitzvah, jødisk konfirmasjon, for en ung jente.
Gjerningsmannen, den 22 år gamle IS-sympatisøren Omer el-Hussein, født i Danmark, ble senere skutt og drept under en skuddveksling med politiet.
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Up to 1.5 million new job opportunities will arise as a result of the construction of the first phase of Egypt’s new capital city, revealed Mohsen Salah, the head of Arab Contractors in an interview with Youm7, reports the egyptianstreets.com website.
According to Salah, the majority of the 1.5 million jobs will revolve around construction. Salah said that Egyptian law requires 90 percent of a project’s laborers to be Egyptians, and so the construction will alleviate some unemployment in the country.
The project is being carried out by an Egyptian-Chinese alliance. This alliance includes Arab Contractors, the Petroleum Projects and Technical Consultations Company, and the China State Construction Engineering Corporation.
Plans to build Egypt’s new capital city were temporarily halted in 2015 after disagreements over the cost of the project and how long it would take.
The UAE company that had been announced as the developer of the project, Capital City Partners, apparently pulled out of the project despite leading its marketing and launch at the Egyptian Economic Development Conference.
Nevertheless, president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was keen to see the project completed and ordered the government sign a new agreement with China State Construction Engineering Corporation. Following the signing of the agreement, President Sisi announced that the first phase of the project would be completed within just two years.
At the time of the Project’s launch, the new capital city was dubbed as a “global city for Egypt’s future” and “a city shaped by nature”, with a reliance on renewable energy.
The new capital city promises housing to five million people and will also include a new central business district with hotels, shopping centers, theme parks and more.
However, the $US 45 billion project, which is set to be completed within 12 years, is primarily aimed at transferring ministries, government buildings and foreign embassies from down-town Cairo to the new capital and would be established on the Suez-Cairo-Ain Sokhna road.
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Oslo kommune, Nordisk Film Kino og miljøet rundt Film fra Sør går sammen for å etablere en ny stor filmfestival i hovedstaden, melder NRK.
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Handlegate i København
I 2015 satte nordmenn enda en gang rekord for antall overnattinger i Danmark, og passerte 2, 6 millioner overnattingsdøgn, skriver reisenettstedet travelnews.no
– Danmark har alltid hatt en spesiell plass i nordmenns hjerter, noe som like mye kan være en utfordring som en fordel, sier turistsjef i VisitDenmark Norge, Vidar Mørch, til nettstedet
Tallene fra Danmarks Statistik viser at de områdene som øker mest er destinasjoner som tidligere har vært relativt upløyd mark for nordmenn, som Fyn og Sydvestjylland.
Totalt landet antall norske overnattinger i Danmark på 2.639.482 i 2015, en økning på 116.804 fra 2014.
– Nordmenn vil alltid elske de danske klassikerne som København og Nordjylland. Men samtidig som vi fortsatt velger brede sandstrender, Nyhavn og Legoland, øker nordmenns interesse for hva Danmark ellers kan by på, sier Mørch videre.
– Nordmenn reiser gjerne på sommerferie i feriehus, som de har gjort i alle år, men nå tar de seg kanskje også en langweekend til Fanø på høsten, bor på badehotell, drar på østerssafari, og spiser på gourmetkroer, sier Vidar Mørch.
