The Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich will remain shut on Wednesday until at least 5 p.m. (1500 GMT) after police said they discovered explosives in a residential building in the north of the city that caught fire and left one person dead.
A female American tourist drew online backlash after saying she slept in a locked restroom at Serbia’s Nikola Tesla Airport to avoid paying for a hostel bed.
Bencoolen, home to museums and galleries in Singapore, ranked 20th in a list of 39 world’s coolest neighborhoods as voted by editors of British magazine Time Out.
Passengers at six regional airports in Thailand will pay higher service fees, 75 baht (US$2.32) for domestic flights and 425 baht ($13) for international ones, effective from Wednesday.
The People’s Committee of Ta Van Commune in Lao Cai Province reported that the local rescue force found two foreign tourists on Monday in the Hoang Lien National Park in Sin Chai village.
Two Vietnamese favorites, banana fritters and mung bean-filled doughnuts, have made it to international food magazine TasteAtlas’s list of world’s best street food sweets.
Many foreign tourists traveling around Vietnam when Storm Bualoi hit had their travel plans disrupted by rain and flooding, but were touched by the hospitality of local people.
Thailand will focus on stimulating inbound tourism over the next months, targeting key markets or countries experiencing a decline in visitor numbers, including China, Japan, South Korea, India, Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.