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Japan may ease virus entry restrictions next month: reports

Japan is considering loosening its coronavirus entry restrictions, local media report. /AFP Japan is considering easing strict coronavirus border restrictions from October to allow more foreig

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China raises visitors' upper limit for cultural, tourist locations

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Friday lifted the upper limit for visitors at cultural and tourist locations from 50 percent to 75 percent of capacity ahead of t

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Abidjan Zoo ordered to close after hyena escapes

FILE PHOTO: Visitors look at an elephant in Abidjan's zoo, Ivory Coast, on July 24, 2015. /AFP A zoo in Cote D'Ivoire's capital has been closed after a hyena escaped its cage and briefly wande

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Shanghai Concert Hall reopens after renovation

An ensemble of staff members of the Shanghai Concert Hall performs for visitors, Sept 6, 2020. The Shanghai Concert Hall, a landmark cultural attraction of the city, reopened on Sunday after 180 d

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China's 'secretive' reusable spacecraft lands successfully - state media

The mission comes three years after China vowed to make a reusable spacecraft that could fly like a plane.

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New York's Museum of Modern Art re-opens after six months

02:10 New York City's biggest art museum opened to visitors on Thursday for the first time since the pandemic hit the city.The Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side of Manh

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China's Cultural Heritage Administration promotes exhibitions

01:19 China's National Cultural Heritage Administration is promoting around 100 exhibitions this year to enhance the public awareness of carrying forward excellent trad

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Bletchley Park, birth-place of the computer, faces uncertain future after pandemic hits income

Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic comput

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London Science Museum reopens after five-month closure

02:30 London Science Museum has reopened its doors for the first time since March after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the tourist attract to close for five months.The UK government anno

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S. African national parks ready to receive visitors

File photo taken on Aug. 30, 2015, shows rhinos at the Kruger National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. (Xinhua/Gao Yuan)South African National Parkssays it is ready to receive visitors in the facilit

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11 killed after boat capsizes in lake in Pakistan's Sindh: local media

A boat of picnickers capsized in a lake in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh on Monday evening, leaving 11 people killed, local media reported. According to the re

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Thailand Q2 economy shrinks sharpest since Asian financial crisis

The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent restriction measures has hit Thailand's tourism. /VCG Thailand's economy saw its biggest annual contraction in 22 years and a record quarterly fall in t

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Rio reopens Christ the Redeemer, other sites after virus closure

01:17 Christ the Redeemer statue and Sugarloaf Mountain reopened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after five months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Pao de Acucar cable car, which offe

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U.S. COVID-19 infections top five million

FILE PHOTO: Visitors wear face masks on the boardwalk in Huntington Beach, California, U.S., July 1, 2020. /VCG The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States has surpassed the fi

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Italian valley reopens after red alert over crack in Alpine glacier

00:39 Authorities have reopened an Italian valley and ended the red alert over fears that a Mont Blanc glacier could break apart.On Thursday, some 75 tourists and residents were evacua

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Public must follow health rules during holiday trips

The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism has reminded the public to follow coronavirus-control rules when taking trips during the summer holiday season. Tourists ar

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Spain's Canary Islands roll out insurance policy to cover costs of virus-affected tourists

The regional government of Spain's Canary Islands confirmed on Wednesday that it has signed an insurance policy to become the first of the country's 17 autonomous communities to guarantee that tou