A Journey to the East for Knowledge
If the East is a delicate matter, then the Southeast is doubly delicate. Specialists in history, economics, and sociology have been puzzling over the enigma of Japan, China, and South Korea for many…
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Education
If the East is a delicate matter, then the Southeast is doubly delicate. Specialists in history, economics, and sociology have been puzzling over the enigma of Japan, China, and South Korea for many…
Everyday life
On behalf of the newspaper Die Welt, German experts conducted a survey in registry offices of 15 largest German cities and unexpectedly stumbled upon joyful figures. It turns out that in Germany in…
Curiosities
Treasures worth half a billion dollars excite the imagination not only of fans of pirate novels but also of officials. The American company Odyssey Marine Exploration, which recently announced the…
Tourism
Every year, travel publications and websites conduct surveys of their readers and users, asking them questions about hotels, trains, and planes. Especially about hotels. And then they draw…
Work
The International Labour Organization has published a report on discrimination in the workplace. This 166-page report discusses all existing types of human rights violations committed in the…
News
Cuban authorities are allocating more than $185 million for the reconstruction of 200 tourism infrastructure facilities - hotels, parks, golf and yacht clubs. The tourism development plan, designed…
Immigration
American conservative journalist and politician Patrick Buchanan is sometimes called a modern-day Spengler. He earned this title thanks to his 2002 book 'The Death of the West,' which is thematically…
Immigration
The Italian port of Trieste, located on the Adriatic coast, locals for decades gloomily called the 'gateway to nowhere'. A few kilometers away lay the border of communist Yugoslavia, and the Iron…
Auto tour
Recently, EU countries, frightened by the increase in road accidents, as if by agreement, have sharply raised the bar for fines for drivers. The drivers' reaction was predictable: now they are…
Auto tour
Renting cars abroad can be dangerous. According to monitoring data of rental firms in Europe, one in four rental cars turned out to be faulty. In recent years, our tourists have taken to traveling…
Gourmet guide
Ice cream is ice cream, even in Africa. In good weather, it's a self-evident companion. A children's treat. Although it depends. Just a hundred years ago, it was quite difficult to imagine that ice…
Curiosities
The famous Indian mausoleum Taj Mahal, which shone white for centuries, has turned yellow. Indian authorities blame industrialists for damaging the monument. And while they comply with the country's…