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Thailand's Tourism Authority hungry for Chinese market
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) plans to restore the Chinese market after the mainland lifted its travel warning last week.
Sansern Ngaorungsi, TAT's deputy governor for Asia and the South Pacific, said the agency will support half of the marketing campaign cost for travel agents who join the project to promote 10 charter flights from Chinese provinces that have never had flights to Thailand such as Shanxi Sheng, Chongqing, Hebei, and Henan. The flights will start in May 2012.
Another massive traffic jam strikes China's highways
While China is spending billions of dollars on infrastructure such as roads and railways, it is still struggling to keep up with the demands of its booming economy and traffic jams are common.
More than 10,000 trucks mainly carrying coal are stuck in a 120-kilometer (75-mile) traffic jam in the northeastern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, in the latest dramatic snarl-up on the country's roads.
China opens "women only" car park
A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a women-only car park with wider spaces and bright colours that it says are designed especially to suit women drivers.
Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency that the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance".
