Tourism in Egypt

4 Mar 2013

The Government Laboratory received the body samples after 10pm on Saturday and announced confirmation of the victims' identities in Cairo at 5pm Hong Kong time yesterday - just hours after...

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Balloon pilot was not to blame for disaster in Egypt, say colleagues

4 Mar 2013

Egyptian balloon pilots suspect the crash was caused by faulty hardware rather than human error on the part of Moman Mourad, the 28-year-old Sky Cruise pilot who jumped from the balloon and...

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Egyptian balloon operators could be back in business this week

3 Mar 2013

Operators of hot-air balloons in Luxor may restart their trips this week despite ongoing investigations into the accident that killed nine Hongkongers and 10 other tourists on Tuesday.

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Luxor tragedy puts safety of hot-air balloons in doubt

3 Mar 2013

Although a journey by balloon has become one of the images most strongly associated with the film, this iconic symbol was never deployed in the book by Verne himself - the idea is briefly raised...

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Video a chilling prelude to balloon calamity

3 Mar 2013

In the candid scenes, visitors from Hong Kong, France, Japan, Britain, Hungary and Egypt merrily wave at the camera and snap pictures as the balloon is inflated. A young Chinese woman poses for...

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Travellers' checks

18 Sep 2011

Ship shape

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Chartered flights should ensure HK tourists arrive home safely today

All Hong Kong tourists stranded in Egypt will return today after several chartered flights were arranged by Beijing and Egypt.

About 270 were in the country, 60 of them in Cairo and...

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Correction

Correction: In last week's travel feature, the end point of the Nile cruise should have been Aswan, not Assam, which is, of course, in India. We apologise for the error, which was introduced in...

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travellers' checks

Royal appointment

One of Melbourne's most treasured heritage hotels, the Victoria, in the city centre's Little Collins Street, has completed an A$8 million (HK$50 million)...

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Angry families of Egypt bus crash victims may sue

Survivors of last month's bus crash in Egypt and relatives of the 14 Hong Kong tourists who were killed are considering legal action over what they claim has been their 'appalling'' treatment...

8:59AM

Tourists from HK unfazed by Egypt blasts

It's a hard sell - promoting your country as a hot travel destination days after a bomb kills more than 60 people in a popular tourist resort.

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Egypt

Accommodation

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