After reading my PBlog “Unwelcome guests†my dear friend Dr. Dave Mozley made some insightful points to me about some other aspects in the treatment of travelers diarrhea that he thought would be helpful to others in the context of traveling to developing countries. Dave and I have made many difficult trips together and he’s [...]
Signs are all around us – everywhere we look.
These types of guests seem to be a given in life. Whether it’s someone you can’t stand crashing your BBQ or the taxman paying a surprise visit to your place of business or the drunken relatives during the holidays season, these encounters will never be void from your life. The only question that might remain [...]
China
If completed, the $24 billion Three Gorges Dam on China’s Yangtze River will be the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. It will create a reservoir of 600km long and will be one of the largest man-made structures ever.
Of course the answer to that is a resounding yes, but just the same, the preventatives seem to be pretty harsh in all sorts of ways in their own right. I got a call from my travel pal who had gotten the brilliant idea of maybe taking a trip to Borneo. I slapped my self [...]
Saudi Arabia
Saudi businesswoman Nawal Abbas Baitar has embarked on a venture to supply women security guards for projects and institutions of women in the Kingdom.
Iraq
The Kuwaiti government has announced its approval for running regular flights to Basra and Baghdad. It is worth noting that flights between Iraq and Kuwait were suspended in 1990. After resuming relations, passengers were using a land road through the fly blown town of Safwan.
Saudi Arabia
Some 20 years after public screenings of films were banned; [...]
