East Asia Map from Ksiom

Thanks to Ksion for bringing us this great topographical map of East Asia (link to Wikipedia article)

东亚地形图。

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 東亞地形圖。

東アジアの地形図。

동아시아의 지형도.

Bản đồ địa hình khu vực Đông Á

Maps of East Asia

Picture by Ksiom

And an old one from 1770:

Airport Updates: Your new blog for what is happening at airports around the world

Stop by airportupdate.blogspot.com and see what is new at airports around the world.

This week we are following the Grimsvotn volcano eruption and what it means for airport and air travel.

See you there!

Hue Airport To Close Down from mid-May to mid-June

Hue airport (known locally as Phu Bai Airport) in Vietnam will be closed from May 13 to June 16 for runway maintenance.

In the meantime, you can fly to Danang.

Or ask your all-resourceful travel agent or HR department. Im sure the latter will not help you.

Link: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/National/2011/4/91675/

Fly from Malaysia to Pyongyang

BusinessWeek writes this week about the opening of a new route between Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea).

Although chartered flights have been operating on the route for years, this is the first time that regular scheduled flights will initiate on the route.

What is surprising, is that the article mentions that the airline already flies to a bunch of countries (e.g. Switzerland and the Czech Rep.) and that Air Koryo has its own website!

Link to article: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MMN7HO0.htm
Link to Air Koryo: http://www.korea-dpr.com/airkoryo.htm

East Asia Map

Nutbars A'Plenty in the World

We have invented the internet, microwave, sliced bread, what have you.

But on a near daily basis, the world still seems to demonstrate just how messed up we are.

Just look at the Koran story from Florida and the subsequent turmoil in Afghanistan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12940014

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_florida-pastor-terry-jones-supervises-koran-burning_1522999

...

There are too many nutbars out there!

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Defining East Asia

The boundary, the map, the way we define East Asia