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Get involved: send your pictures, video, news and views by texting ECHONEWS to 80360, or email us Click here for details A Tragedy struck while Cheznye Emmons, 23, of Morrins Close, Great Wakering, was travelling through south Asia with her boyfriend Joe Cook, 21.

U.N. estimates say between 70,000 and 100,000 people died in this tear-shaped island, as the ethno-political conflict came to a bloody end four years ago.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Korea Kathleen Stephens donated 10 million won to the Korea Cycling Federation Wednesday, the federation said.

Intrepid My Adventure Store has an eight-day tour of Tuscany including five nights' hotel accommodation, two nights on a farm estate, seven breakfasts, three lunches, three dinners, transport and sightseeing on tour, and an expert English-speaking tour leader from $3490 a person, twin share.

His visit comes in the wake of a tense border standoff in the Himalayan mountains, but the Asian giants are trying to downplay the disagreement.

A RELAXING day spa need not be a luxury reserved only for adults. The Maldives Hilton now offers spa treatments for kids and families.

North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.

When Mongolia's most famous dinosaur, a relative of T. rex , returns to the Asian country on May 18, it returns to a homeland rich in dinosaur fossils, but with scant resources to display and study them.

Chinese tourists outside Buckingham Palace. Their deputy prime minister has warned them about bad behaviour overseas.

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, an American company, announced at a press conference in Tokyo on May 7 that "the Ritz-Carlton, Kyoto" will open on February 7, 2014 in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, on the former site of Hotel Fujita Kyoto.

The Best Summer Destination selections were drawn from the more than 60,000 places visited by more than 2.5 million registered Gogobot users, their friends and like-minded travellers in their network.

In a sprawling 132-bed hospital in Nepal's capital, patients receive treatment for everything from blood disorders to heart disease - vital services in a country that the United Nations ranks 157th in the world for human development.

Cheznye Emmons, 23, fell ill within hours of drinking deadly methanol, labelled as 'gin', which she picked up from a local shop while trekking across south Asia Cheznye Emmons, 23, fell ill after drinking deadly methanol with boyfriend Joe Cook, 21, and a male friend they met while trekking across south Asia.

Daisy Wyatt has newly joined the Independent online team as an arts and entertainment writer.

Tuesday will be Departure Day for Dr. Ernie Johnson and Ed Haag, and they're as ready as they'll ever be.

South Korean women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II lead an anti-Japanese protest by about 50 activists outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul on 11 April 2001.

Can't Pakistani voters tell the difference between a world-famous, charismatic leader and a mere politician who refers to himself in the third person? Supporters of Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N party celebrate their party's victory in the parliamentary elections.

Public Works looks at public space, urban design, and city-building innovations from around the world, and considers what Toronto might learn from them.

Near Shenyang, China, smoke and fire rise from a light plane after it failed to take off at Taoxian Airport.

A preliminary investigation report into last month's Lion Air crash into the sea off Bali has called on the budget carrier to implement several safety and pilot training recommendations.