Category - Asia

TRAVEL reports: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada have issued the following updates on the travel.gc.ca website to the following countries: China – Exercise high degree of caution The Summer Universiade is scheduled to take place in Shenzhen from August 12 to 23, 2011. During this period, Canadians should expect heightened security measures in the […]

Phuket Province– Phuket airport runway to close during early hours until August 1. No significant impact on commercial flight schedules expected at Phuket International Airport (HKT) Confirm all flights with airlines.

Next typhoon on its way ACCUWEATHER.COM meteorologists are forecasting that tropical depression 08W, which formed over the open western Pacific Ocean Monday, will track westward to become a potentially serious typhoon later in the week. This strengthening weather system will pass well north of Guam at midweek, then over northern Philippines Sea south of mainland […]

AccuWeather: Jun 23, 2011; 7:57 AM ET A 6.7-magnitude earthquake rumbled off the northeastern coast of Honshu, Japan early Thursday morning, local time. The epicenter of the quake was close to where the devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck on March 11, 2011. The center of the magnitude 6.7 earthquake was 54 miles southeast of Hachinohe, Japan […]

Flights to TIA cancelled as runway collapses ALL the international flights at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) east of Kathmandu have been cancelled due to the collapse of runway since 08h00 on Tuesday. Ratish Chandra Suman, general manager at TIA, said three international flights were diverted to Kolkata and two others had to circle for […]

Travelinfo.ca: TRAVELLERS heading to Hong Kong are advised that officials are warning of an outbreak of scarlet fever among children. So far there have been more than 400 cases of the disease this year, including the death of a six-year-old last month. Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection that is spread by coughing and sneezing. […]