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Pan Pacific Singapore has become one of the first hotels in Singapore to install Bartech’s automated mini-bar in all its 778 newly-renovated rooms and suites. The system uses Wi-Fi for communication between the automated mini-bars in guest rooms and the Bartech server. The Bartech software enables mini-bar charges to be noted automatically and immediately on [...]

Cocoa Island is COMO Hotels and Resorts’ private island property in the Maldives. With everything designed to maximise a guest’s sense of escape – empty horizon views, a still lagoon and powder-white beach – it’s a perfect place to address issues of well-being, supported by spacious, meditative accommodation in calming whites, healthful cuisine and quietly [...]

Manila, Philippines – Budget airline Air Philippines will buy six new Bombardier Dash aircraft for $120 million as part of a fleet upgrade, a report said Monday. The domestic carrier owned by local magnate Lucio Tan, who also controls international carrier Philippine Airlines, will purchase the 76-seater 8-Q400 aircraft from Toronto-based Bombardier Aerospace, the Philippine [...]

The Philippine flower industry will never be the same again. Island Rose has long been a benchmark for Philippine flower businesses. In 1980, it was the first to commercially produce flowers under greenhouses earning pioneer status as the very first company to be classified under the then new cut flower industry. Prior to this, all [...]

AirAsia X, the Malaysian-based long-haul low-cost airline is to launch direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Hangzhou, China, with five return flights per week beginning 4th February 2008. The latest service is the airline’s second long-haul destination after Gold Coast, Australia which was launched in November last year. Famed for its natural beauty and considered [...]

AirAsia has launched direct daily flights to Guangzhou via Baiyun International airport from the LCC Terminal, Kuala Lumpur. This will be the airline’s fourth destination to mainland China after Shenzhen, Xiamen and Macau. With an approximate population of 9.5 million, Guangzhou is known as one of mainland China’s leading commercial and manufacturing regions and serves [...]

Berlin is the largest city and the capital of Germany. Due to the division of the western and eastern part of Berlin from 1949 until 1989, Berlin became one of the most diverse city in the European Union. Currently Berlin has a population of approximately Three and a half million people. Berlin became an important [...]