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5 Top Tourist Attractions In Northern Vietnam}

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5 top tourist attractions in northern Vietnam

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Vietnam is knowns as tourism country with a lot of wonderful destinations from north to

south. There are some best places which having good reviews of tourists both service and

natural beauty in the north. They also consider as must-see when you travel to Vietnam.

1, Hanoi

Hanoi is not only capital but also is traditional, hictorical and cultural city of Vietnam long time

ago. Especially, Hanoi Old Quarter attracts a lot of tourist every year with many small,

meandering streets, each shows the name of the goods that was specifically traded there such as

Hang Bac (Silver Product), Hang Ma (Paper Product), Thuoc Bac (Herb Product) and Hang Vai

(Silk Product), just to name a few. Furthermore, almost well-know destinations in Hanoi lay

close to each other so you can walking or by cyclo to visit around there such as Hoan Kiem

Lake, Literature Temple, One Pillar Pagoda, Sword Lake, West Lake, History Museum, Flag

Pole

2, Sapa

Sapa, is hills province of Lao Cai, a land of modest, quietly but hides many the magic of the

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natural scene. Sapa’s natural landscape is combined between human creativity and the

topography of hills, green forests, which look like the paintings are arranged in a layout harmony

to create a region with many romantic scenes. From the city center you can reach its panoramic

views of the untouched mountain peaks.

Visiting Sapa, tourist will have chance to conquer Fansipan peak known as making a trip to the

village hidden in the mist. Mountain scenery with blooming flowers and “clouds hugging

mountains, clouds hugging mountains” certainly would delight travelers travelling the place.

Moreover, tourists can travel another well-known places in Sapa such as: Muong Hoa valley,

Love market, Bac waterfall, Ban Ho and etc.

3, Halong Bay

Halong Bay is one of famous destination in Vietnam, located in the northeast Vietnam. Having

thousands of magnificent islands is marvelous nature, Halong Bay was repeatedly recognized by

UNESCO as a World Natural Heritage Area. Halong attracts both domestic and international

guests due to outstanding natural beauty. Tourists will travel to explore the series of limestone

caves with majestic appearance by cruise when coming Halong Bay. There are highlight places

in Halong such as Kissing Rocks, Sung Sot Grotto (Cave of Surprises), Thien Cung grotto

(Heavenly Cave), Bai Tho Mountain, Hon Trong Mai, and Cat Hai Island Furthermore,

Halong is also voted one of the 7 new world natural wonders.

4, Ninh Binh

Less than 100 km from Hanoi, Ninh Binh tourism with many beautiful scenic places in both

landscape and historical significance, has become the destination of choice of many tourists.

Travelling to Ninh Binh, the visitors will surprise from the beauty of the ancient capital of Hoa

Lu, or the majesty of Phat Diem cathedral. Furthermore, travelers can freely explore the

marvellous nature landscapes in the eco-caves such as Trang An, Tam Coc – Bich Dong area and

so on. That’s not to mention the nature preserved in the forest of Cuc Phuong, or the unique,

interesting, rich flora and fauna and as well as the diversity of Van Long wetland nature reserve,

or bathe himself in Kenh Ga hot spring and etc.

5, Mai Chau

Far 130km from Hanoi, Mai Chau is beautiful valley. Its not only famous with imposing nature

but also enthusiasism of Thai people which attract all tourists when travelling there.

Guests travel on the 6 highway to Hoa Binh approximately 70 kilometers, then cross the winding

mountain pass, moving range about 60 kilometers to Mai Chau from Hanoi. Most young people

like to travel by motorcycle.with 2 days 1 night tour to this attactive valley. When coming there,

almost travelers choose homestay instead of hotel which can explore real daily life and culture as

well as enjoy local foods there or eco-lodge for Vietnam tour packages. Surrounding Mai Chau is

a wonderland of green, traveler can walking around to visit fields of yellow such as Thung Khe

Pass, Chieu Cave, Mo Luong Cave, Lac Village, Van Village and etc.

Having places already, planning your trip to travel north of Vietnam now. If you still have

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Wikinews interviews U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney

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Wikinews interviews U.S. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney

Posted on January 1, 2018January 1, 2018 by

Friday, March 7, 2008

Wikinews held an exclusive interview with Cynthia McKinney, one of the candidates for the Green Party nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

McKinney is a former Democratic Congresswoman from Georgia. She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1992 and held her seat for ten years until being defeated by Denise Majette in 2002. She was the first ever African American woman from her state to be elected to Congress.

We asked her why she made the recent switch to the Green Party. She replied, “Due to the importance of environmental issues, Green issues are the issues of today. The Ten Key Values of the Green Party stress us getting along with each other in harmony with the planet that gives us life.”

When asked about how she would handle Iraq she replied, “I would instruct the Joint Chiefs to draw up a plan for the orderly withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the country. I would dismantle our military bases in the area, and I would also demand that U.S. and other international corporations relinquish any claims to Iraqi oil or other resources and withdraw as well.”

McKinney is running for president because, basically, she thinks that “it’s time that the people win”.

2009 was worst year for airlines, says International Air Transport Association

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2009 was worst year for airlines, says International Air Transport Association

Posted on January 1, 2018January 1, 2018 by

Thursday, January 28, 2010

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Wednesday that 2009 was the “worst year” that the airline industry has ever seen since 1945.

“In terms of demand, 2009 goes into the history books as the worst year the industry has ever seen,” said IATA boss Giovanni Bisignani. “We have permanently lost 2.5 years of growth in passenger markets and 3.5 years of growth in the freight business.”

According to the group, passenger traffic was down by 3.5% compared to a year earlier, and freight by 10.1%. The group estimated that the airline industry lost a total of US$11 billion in 2009 last year, and will lose another $5.6 billion in 2010.

Airlines in Africa had the biggest passenger demand drop, at 6.8%; North American airlines and Asian carriers had demand go down 5.8%. European airlines saw a drop of 5%. Middle Eastern and Latin American carriers, however, had rises in demand, with gains of 11.3% and 0.3%, respectively. According to the Agence France-Presse news agency, part of the reason Middle Eastern carriers performed better is because of their position between Asia, Africa, and Europe, resulting in more connecting flights through hubs.

“While both North American and European carriers saw demand improvements in the first half of the year, the second half was basically flat,” said IATA.

IATA represents 230 airlines, accounting for 90% of scheduled air traffic, although some budget carriers are not included.

The IATA boss said that, although the worst appeared to be over due to the global economic recovery airlines would have to keep their costs low. “Revenue improvements will be at a much slower pace than the demand growth that we are starting to see,” he noted.

“Profitability will be even slower to recover and airlines will lose an expected 5.6 billion dollars in 2010. The industry starts 2010 with some enormous challenges. The worst is behind us, but it’s not time to celebrate. Adjusting to 2.5 to 3.5 years of lost growth means that airlines face another spartan year, focused on matching capacity carefully to demand and controlling costs,” Bisignani continued.

Costs for security were also an issue. Bisignani said: “Governments and industry are aligned in the priority that we place on security. But the cost of security is also an issue. Globally, airlines spend US$5.9 billion a year on what are essentially measures concerned with national security. This is the responsibility of governments, and they should be picking up the bill.”

Analysts, however, say that cost cutting measures, intended to attract more customers, would also harm airline profits. Saj Ahmad, an independent airline analyst, commented: “Continued fare wars between airlines mean that yields and profitability will be low. Airlines are struggling to fill their airplanes and discounted ticketing has done little to alleviate the pressures on their costs,” as quoted by the BBC.

“Capacity has come out of the global airline system, but until a few airlines perhaps exit the industry through bankruptcy or mergers, there is still a very long road until we see serious stability, let alone growth,” Ahmad added.

As increase in digital music sales slows, record labels look to new ways to make money

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Every September, the Apple iPod is redesigned. Last year saw the release of the iPod Nano 5th generation, bringing a video camera and a large range of colours to the Nano for the first time. But as Apple again prepares to unveil a redesigned product, the company has released their quarterly sales figures—and revealed that they have sold only 9m iPods for the quarter to June—the lowest number of sales since 2006, leading industry anylists to ponder whether the world’s most successful music device is in decline.

Such a drop in sales is not a problem for Apple, since the iPhone 4 and the iPad are selling in high numbers. But the number of people buying digital music players are concerning the music industry. Charles Arthur, technology editor of The Guardian, wrote that the decline in sales of MP3 players was a “problem” for record companies, saying that “digital music sales are only growing as fast as those of Apple’s devices – and as the stand-alone digital music player starts to die off, people may lose interest in buying songs from digital stores. The music industry had looked to the iPod to drive people to buy music in download form, whether from Apple’s iTunes music store, eMusic, Napster or from newer competitors such as Amazon.”

Mark Mulligan, a music and digital media analyst at Forrester Research, said in an interview that “at a time where we’re asking if digital is a replacement for the CD, as the CD was for vinyl, we should be starting to see a hockey-stick growth in download sales. Instead, we’re seeing a curve resembling that of a niche technology.” Alex Jacob, a spokesperson for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the worldwide music industry, agreed that there had been a fall in digital sales of music. “The digital download market is still growing,” they said. “But the percentage is less than a few years ago, though it’s now coming from a higher base.” Figures released earlier this year, Arthur wrote, “show that while CD sales fell by 12.7%, losing $1.6bn (£1bn)in value, digital downloads only grew by 9.2%, gaining less than $400m in value.”

Expectations that CDs would, in time, become extinct, replaced by digital downloads, have not come to light, Jacob confirmed. “Across the board, in terms of growth, digital isn’t making up for the fall in CD sales, though it is in certain countries, including the UK,” he said. Anylising the situation, Arthur suggested that “as iPod sales slow, digital music sales, which have been yoked to the device, are likely to slow too. The iPod has been the key driver: the IFPI’s figures show no appreciable digital download sales until 2004, the year Apple launched its iTunes music store internationally (it launched it in the US in April 2003). Since then, international digital music sales have climbed steadily, exactly in line with the total sales of iPods and iPhones.”

Nick Farrell, a TechEYE journalist, stated that the reason for the decline in music sales could be attributed to record companies’ continued reliance on Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, saying that they had considered him the “industry’s saviour”, and by having this mindset had forgotten “that the iPod is only for those who want their music on the run. What they should have been doing is working out how to get high quality music onto other formats, perhaps even HiFi before the iPlod fad died out.”

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When Jobs negotiated a deal with record labels to ensure every track was sold for 99 cents, they considered this unimportant—the iPod was not a major source of revenue for the company. However, near the end of 2004, there was a boom in sales of the iPod, and the iTunes store suddenly began raking in more and more money. The record companies were irritated, now wanting to charge different amounts for old and new songs, and popular and less popular songs. “But there was no alternative outlet with which to threaten Apple, which gained an effective monopoly over the digital music player market, achieving a share of more than 70%” wrote Arthur. Some did attempt to challenge the iTunes store, but still none have succeeded. “Apple is now the largest single retailer of music in the US by volume, with a 25% share.”

The iTunes store now sells television shows and films, and the company has recently launced iBooks, a new e-book store. The App Store is hugely successful, with Apple earning $410m in two years soley from Apps, sales of which they get 30%. In two years, 5bn apps have been downloaded—while in seven years, 10bn songs have been purchased. Mulligan thinks that there is a reason for this—the quality of apps simply does not match up to a piece of music. “You can download a song from iTunes to your iPhone or iPad, but at the moment music in that form doesn’t play to the strengths of the device. Just playing a track isn’t enough.”

Adam Liversage, a spokesperson of the British Phonographic Industry, which represents the major UK record labels, notes that the rise of streaming services such as Spotify may be a culprit in the fall in music sales. Revenues from such companies added up to $800m in 2009. Arthur feels that “again, it doesn’t make up for the fall in CD sales, but increasingly it looks like nothing ever will; that the record business’s richest years are behind it. Yet there are still rays of hope. If Apple – and every other mobile phone maker – are moving to an app-based economy, where you pay to download games or timetables, why shouldn’t recording artists do the same?”

Well, apparently they are. British singer Peter Gabriel has released a ‘Full Moon Club’ app, which is updated every month with a new song. Arthur also notes that “the Canadian rock band Rush has an app, and the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, led by Trent Reznor – who has been critical of the music industry for bureaucracy and inertia – released the band’s first app in April 2009.” It is thought that such a system will be an effective method to reduce online piracy—”apps tend to be tied to a particular handset or buyer, making them more difficult to pirate than a CD”, he says—and in the music industry, piracy is a very big problem. In 2008, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimated that 95% of downloads were illegitimate. If musicians can increase sales and decrease piracy, Robert says, it can only be a good thing.

“It’s early days for apps in the music business, but we are seeing labels and artists experimenting with it,” Jacob said. “You could see that apps could have a premium offering, or behind-the-scenes footage, or special offers on tickets. But I think it’s a bit premature to predict the death of the album.” Robert concluded by saying that it could be “premature to predict the death of the iPod just yet too – but it’s unlikely that even Steve Jobs will be able to produce anything that will revive it. And that means that little more than five years after the music industry thought it had found a saviour in the little device, it is having to look around again for a new stepping stone to growth – if, that is, one exists.”

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