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How to Celebrate Valentine's Day Around the World

by AOL Travel Staff. Posted Feb 14th 2013 02:13 PM
When Valentine's Day rolls around, suggestions abound for where to go and what to do to celebrate your love. Take a sunset hot air balloon ride high above California wine country, anyone? Drive Montana's Going-to-the-Sun road, one of the most romantic routes in the U.S.? Pack up for a ride on a private jet or another of Gadling's Over-the-Top Valentine's Day travel experiences?
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Taiwanese Kidnapping Scare Triggered by Cheap Chinese Tourists

by AOL Travel Staff. Posted Jul 22nd 2011 08:30 AM
Taiwanese police spent much of Thursday looking for kidnappers after a motorist saw evidence that a man had been stuffed in the trunk of a taxi carrying four Chinese tourists.
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'Panda' Proposes Marriage on Chinese High-Speed Train (VIDEO)

by AOL Travel Staff. Posted Jul 21st 2011 08:45 AM
How to propose to your girlfriend 101: Dress up like a giant panda, sneak up behind her on a train, sketch her out completely and drop down on one knee.
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China Wants Foreigner Free Tibet For July

by AOL Travel Staff. Posted Jun 13th 2011 09:10 AM
China Wants Foreigner Free Tibet for Next Month

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Chinese authorities have banned foreign tourists from entering Tibet until late July, after the anniversaries of both the Chinese Communitist Party and Beijing's forceful annexation of Tibet.

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Hello Kitty Theme Park Set To Open In China

by Rebecca Dolan. Posted May 13th 2011 01:00 PM
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Hello Kitty, that famous cartoon cat with the pink bow, will be getting her own theme park in China come 2014.
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Peng Zhimin, Chinese Hilton Hotel Exec, Gets Life in Prison For Organized Crime

by Rebecca Dolan. Posted May 4th 2011 08:30 AM
Chinese Hilton Hotel Exec Gets Life in Prison For Organized Crime

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A top shareholder of the Hilton hotel in Chongqing, China was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for his connections with organized crime.
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'Red' Tours Lead Visitors Through Chinese Communist History

by Libby Zay. Posted May 3rd 2011 01:00 PM

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An all-women combat unit dressed in revolutionary-style green caps and full soldier's uniforms are leading 'red' tourists on officially sanctioned tours of old revolutionary sites in China.
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Ping-Pong Paddle Hotel Planned in China

by Libby Zay. Posted Apr 5th 2011 02:15 PM

Huainan Municipal Bureau of Sports

China is set to build a hotel shaped like an upside-down ping-pong paddle as part of a new $45.8 million sports complex.
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Burgers Around the World: Beets, Pineapple, and Fermented Cabbbage

by Brooke Schoenman. Posted Mar 10th 2011 11:30 AM
A burger: It's a meat patty served on a bun. Your idea of the perfect burger might be as simple as this definition, and in your home country, you will probably be served with a version that suits your tastes. Ordering this one dish, can bring a person face-to-face with some very interesting concoctions to say the least. Take a look at these burgers around the world.
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Capsule Hotel in China Fails Fire Safety Test

by Fran Golden. Posted Feb 24th 2011 10:30 AM
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China's first capsule hotel has been shut down due to fire safety concerns, according to Shanghai fire officials.
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