Asia Pacific Travel News

A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Saturday from Shanghai's main international airport, killing three crew members, a government official said. The official Xinhua News Agency cited Shanghai's municipal information office as saying three people died.

The name of the restaurant is, (no, don’t turn up or wrinkle your nose!) the Modern Toilet restaurant. It is a unique idea and has floored the folks of Hong Kong. Just imagine ice creams being served in containers shaped...

Strong Antarctic winds prevented relatives of Mt Erebus victims holding a memorial ceremony near the 1979 crash site last night. The six family members were able to fly over the area on the northern slopes of Erebus where the Air...

South Korea should formally apologize for the massacre of thousands of civilians at the beginning of the Korean War, a commission said Thursday. The country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which conducted an official inquiry, also called on the government to...

One other miner was reported missing after the blast at the mine in Guizhou province, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said. The accident occurred less than a week after another explosion at a mine in northeastern China left at least...

The Fire Service is continuing to battle a massive blaze just south of Nelson. Some 200 hectares of native bush and a pine plantation have been destroyed by the fire which is raging near Tadmor Saddle...Strong winds fanned the flames...

A Japanese man badly burned in a fire at an indoor shooting range in the South Korean city of Busan died Friday morning at a local hospital, bringing the death toll from the blaze to 14, of whom nine were...

The Minister of Health has already stated to aged care providers that the ‘constantly rotating parade of nurses and healthcare assistants does nothing for the quality of care’ of residents. Where then is the accountability for this misuse of taxpayers’...