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Bangkok
Overview : Bangkok is one of the fastest growing cities in Asia. About 6.5 million people (2006) live in the metropolis. No matter what one of these, the frenetic pace, exotic city holds - it certainly leaves a strong impression. For some, a chaos, the heat, many of the traffic and lack of personal freedom to be overwhelming, however, and reason en ...
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Beijing
Overview : Beijing was long, but not always, the capital of the Chinese Empire. The origin of the Han Chinese-educated society was rather further southwest, in the vicinity of present-day Xian, where the first emperor conquered all Chinese state and unified empire in 221 BC.The most important capital was the founding by Yongle Emperor, the third ru ...
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Tokyo
Overview : Tokyo is a symbol of Japan's success story and a vast scale metropolis on the Pacific coast of Honshu, the largest island of the Japanese archipelago. The city was founded under this name in 1590 as the capital of Edo shogun - the succession given by absolute rulers of Japan and commander in chief of the Japanese army. Edo had a live ...
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Hongkong
Overview : Hong Kong, the city at the "fragrant harbor", is the latest city skyscrapers and ancient temples, the local markets and fine shops, fortune tellers and stock market gurus. It is also the gloomy concrete canyons and green parks, the elegant restaurants and snack stalls simple, gamers and art lovers, Chinese and British - a meeti ...
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Singapore
Overview : The island nation of Singapore is a main island and 63 smaller islands offshore. Despite this relatively small area, Singapore is a vast economic growth. In just 150 years, it is a thriving commercial and industrial center. As one of the largest centers of the oil refinery and distribution in the world, Singapore, an important supplier f ...
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Seoul
Overview : Seoul is now 600 years as the capital of Seoul, since the founding of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). From the beginning, it was not called Seoul. During the Joseon period was called "Han Yang", and was released only after the liberation from the Japanese occupiers in 1945, the city of Gaeseong the meantime called by the newly ...
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Bali
Overview : Bali a paradise on earth was called "Pulau Dewata or Island of the Gods" in the Indian Ocean. With 5600 square kilometers, Bali is one of the smallest of 17500 islands in the archipelago, Indonesia. This island is a mixture of working people and nature.The landscape of green rice terraces, the Bali to the 'rice Chamber of I ...
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Kuala Lumpur
Overview : The Federal Capital Kuala Lumpur is to only 35 km on the center of north and south very close at the west coast of the peninsula Malaysia.In the year 1857 under guidance of the Malay rajah Abdullah in the area where the Gombak and Klang rivers meet. That is the time, when this city developed. From then on it constantly grew, with the tin ...
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Hanoi
Overview : Hanoi, its former name of Thang Long (Dragon taking off), has many monuments and cultural relics millennia intimately linked to the history of Vietnam and its legends. 23 centuries ago, Co Loa (now in the district of Dong Anh) was chosen by A Duong Vuong as capital of the kingdom of Au Lac.For a millennium, Hanoi was the center of the mo ...
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