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Jan 1, 2012

THAILAND New Year 2012 Celebration, Jan 01, 2012



Images: New Year's Eve around the world
Chicago Daily Herald
1, 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. Associated Press Michael Thomas, left, of the Bronx borough of New York, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Sam Yeatman, of Austin, Texas, watch the show during the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, Saturday, Dec. ...
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Cityfolk ring in 2012 abroad
Times of India
This New Year's eve, most Mysoreans are headed to Thailand, Dubai, Indonesia, Singapore and Maldives. Bookings shot up by at least 40 per cent, say stakeholders in the tourism sector. Both young and middle-aged groups booked trips ahead of the big day. ...
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A New Year's message from the Phuket Governor
Phuket Gazette
These events provided the perfect chance for buyers to meet sellers. We have also promoted Andaman region tourism outside of Thailand and are very pleased with the positive feedback we got at these events. There are still many people concerned about ...
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Phuket Gazette
New Zealand mud, Berlin fires, lunar orbit greet 2012
Sacramento Bee
In Thailand, provincial authorities hosted a New Year's countdown party on the country's largest hydropower dam - Bhumibol Dam in Tak province, 380 kilometers (236 miles) north of Bangkok - to dismiss predictions by a psychic 37 years ago that the ...
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Faasai Resort and Spa Invites Guests to Join Celebrations in Honor of King ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The people of Chanthaburi annually celebrate their important role in Thailand's history by honoring the memory of King Taksin the Great during the New Year festival. Thefestival is held at a shrine that was erected for King Taksin, shaped in the form ...
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Aurora Foundation Hosts New Years Eve Fundraiser on Kauai
Hawaii Reporter
Tonight, after gathering a great array of local musical talent, delicious food, and silent auction items, they are holding a New Years Eve gala at Common Ground at the end of Kuawa Road in Kilauea. Dinner and live entertainment start at 6 PM, ...
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Hawaii Reporter
Thais wish for political reconciliation in New Year
Monsters and Critics.com
Yingluck became the country's first female premier following the victory of her Pheu Thai party in the July 3 general election. Former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the Democrat Party, was ranked the most popular opposition politician.
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World welcomes 2012
Haaretz
In Thailand, provincial authorities hosted a New Year's countdown partyon the country's largest hydropower dam to dismiss predictions that the structure would collapse. Assistant plant director Sirichai Saengsuwan said the Bhumibol Dam compound in Tak ...
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Haaretz
2012 New Year countdown celebration held nationwide
Thai News Agency MCOT
BANGKOK, Dec 31 - New Year countdown events will be held nationwide to ring in 2012, with fireworks, concerts, activities and other light and sound spectacles provided to the public. In the Thai capital, the main stage is at CentralWorld Square and is ...
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Capital rings in the New Year in style with massive street party
Herald.ie
Despite spending the Christmas holidays at home in Hollywood, Belfast, golf ace Rory McIlroy has headed out to Thailand to celebrate the New Year with his girlfriend, tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. AR model Georgia Salpa will be sipping champagne in...
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New Year countdown: Nine New Years for Russia
RT
The locals celebrated with fireworks, jazz bands and other celebratory events held on central squares. The New Year then made its way across Siberia, through the cities of Chita and Yakutsk at the same time as it reached Papua New Guinea and Guam. ...
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New Year's 2012 Shortages Forecast Worldwide, and Not Just Norwegian Butter: A ...
International Business Times
By Tom Dworetzky | December 31, 2011 1:32 PM EST The great Norwegian butter shortage got me to thinking that shortages of 2012 might be just the ticket to send my faithful readers off to a rockin' New Year's Eve celebration. But be of good cheer, ...
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International Business Times
Prediction of threat to Bhumibol Dam triggers panic in Tak
The Nation
A prediction that an earthquake will destroy the Bhumibol Dam in Tak's Sam Ngao district on New Year's Eve has created confusion and anxiety among the local people, especially those in the district and nearby areas. Thongbai Khamsi, the 73-year-old ...
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The Nation
Hoteliers, florists eye brisk New Year sales
Daily Star Online
Hotels, restaurants and florists expect brisk sales riding on people's zeal for a new beginning with the New Year celebrations. Both big and small hotels based in Dhaka, Chittagong and popular tourist destinations Cox' Bazar and Sylhet decorated their ...
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Phuket Villas Boost; Bird Flu Scare; Wayne Rooney Dropped; Mourners Die in ...
Phuketwan
Associate Press With glittering fireworks and celebrations from New Zealand to Times Square, the world eagerly welcomed a new year and hope for a better future Saturday, saying goodbye to a year of hurricanes, tsunamis and economic turmoil that many ...
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Thai floods death toll tops 800
Pakistan Daily Times
In his annual New Year speech, King Bhumibol Adulyadej regretted the devastation caused by the deluge and sent his sympathy to those affected. “The damage from the flood is the worst ever. It will serve as a reminder to people to be prepared because ...
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New Year wishes
The Nation
Everyone please do good things so that 2555 [BE] is a good year for Thaisociety." "Take good care of body and mind. Use Sati and Panya [consciousness and wisdom] in dealing with the world. However it is, you won't suffer from it." New Year wishes.
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The Nation
It could all be pretty amazing again
Bangkok Post
But whatever happens there is no doubt we are in for another Amazing Thailand year, although the authorities would apparently prefer to call it ''Miracle Thailand''. In fact every one of the last 40-odd years in Thailand has been pretty amazing and ...
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Pay heed to those who know
Sydney Morning Herald
NEW Year's Eve is a busy time of year for the hospitality trades - bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels and, yes, sex workers. Like any other business, sex workers worldwide were prepared to meet customer demand. And like any business transaction, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Excitement awaits in 2012
Fifa.com
Happy New Year to you all! Have you opened your new diary yet? Is the 2012 calendar already occupying its place on the wall? Well, today FIFA.com gives you the chance to start using them both, so grab a pen and start noting down the unmissable dates of ...
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Registration opens today for the 35th Detroit Free Press/Talmer Bank Marathon.
Detroit Free Press
Or Thailand. Or Egypt.- 1:38 am Inmates call it "the box" or the "the hole."- 4:47 pm It'sNew Year's Day. Time for predictions.- 1:44 am As an attorney, I was interested in recent comments by Newt Gingrich on “Face the Nation. ...
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OH ... Snap! iconic pictures of 2011
Bangkok Post
Try chatting up a Thai via SMS and write something like "I am a handsome young man with a great future ahead of me." The reply will be "555" _ the local equivalent of LOL. Why am I telling you all this? Oh yes, it's the New Year, and as usual, ...
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Bangkok Post
Local stocks crawl at slowest pace in 10 years
ABS CBN News
According to AB Capital Securities analyst Gregg Ilag, the main composite index will likely start the new year trading at a tight range pending developments from Europe. Shortterm support is pegged at 4303 while resistance is seen at 4372. ...
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12 Travel Resolutions For 2012 - 1-6
The Independent
A key institution in the realm of family holidays chalks up a landmark birthday in 2012, when Center Parcs celebrates 25 years in business. The woodland accommodation giant will mark its quarter-century with the arrival of three new luxury treehouses ...
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Nevada welcomes 2012 with big crowds, fireworks
FoxReno.com
Tourism officials expected a record 314000 visitors to celebrate New Year's Eve in Las Vegas, an optimistic sign capping a year in which visitor volume improved from a two-year funk thanks to the Great Recession. Police planned to shut down the Strip ...
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2012: Get Ready To Compete
Bernama
By Ravichandran DJ Paul KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 (Bernama) -- Welcome Jan 1, 2012, the start of the new year and the date where the Competition Act 2010 comes into effect to foster healthy competition among businesses and promote investor confidence in ...
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A Trip Down Memory Lane of New Year's Past | iWannaGo.co ...
By awardweb
So while we celebrate at home for the first time in a few years, enjoy our trip down memory lane and share your stories of where you'll be this year and where in the world you have celebrated New Years abroad in the past. Thailand. muay thai thailand. Dave and Deb Dukin' it Out at New Years in Thailand. Last Year this time we were in Studying Muay Thai Kickboxing at Rawai Muay Thai in Phuket. A fun New Years on the beach complete with Karaoke, Lady Boys and a little Thai ...
iWannaGo.co - Award Web
Free entry ticket at Rattanakosin Exhibition Hall ... - Thai Travel News
By Richard Barrow
Rattanakosin Exhibition Hall, slogan with “Experience the best of Rattanakosin in ONE day” managed by Crown Property Bureau celebrates the year of 20...
Thai Travel News by Paknam Web
Hope Reigns as Americans Prepare to Ring in 2012
Times Square was awash in hopeful sentiments asit began to welcome hordes of New Year's Eve revelers looking tocast off a rough year and cheer their way to something better in 2012. ... New Years NYC Times Square Thailand 2012 Celebrations Beijin 2012Celebrations Australia 2012 Celebrations ...
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Happy New Year 2012: Here's My Thai Language Wish List ...
By Catherine
Women and men learn to read, write and speak the Thai language. - Happy New Year2012! Here's My Thai Language Wish List. ... The Charity Cat Party: A Success! Did you make it to the Charity Cat Party?… I wasn't in town for ...
Women Learning Thai... and some...
Politics to heat up in 2012 - The Nation
This year will also see the end of five-year bans imposed on 111 executives from Thaksin's disbanded Thai Rak Thai Party, who were prohibited from political activity after the 2006 coup. The administration of Prime Minister Yingluck ...
NationMultimedia.com - Politics
Happy New Year from Chiang Mai! - Deals We Like
By dealswelike
Happy New Year from Chiang Mai! It is now 2012 in Thailand! Although there are still 12+ hours left in the United States, Happy New Year everyone! I just got back from a massiveparty in the street of Chiang Mai and it is extremely different ...
Deals We Like
Baker on scenarios for Thailand's political future | Asian ...
By Bangkok Pundit
Although he had not earlier shown interest in the downtrodden and seemed focused on swelling his own fortune, he became the first Thai politician to recognise the new social forces bubbling up from below. He offered some ... In the third, the opposition would temporarily lay low, waiting for the usual government failures and scandals to create the right conditions for attack, and politics would soon return to the fractious instability of recent years. .... New Year's celebration in Belgrade ...
Asian Correspondent » Bangkok Pundit
New Year countdown: Nine New Years for Russia — RT
By RT
Russia has celebrated its biggest festivity as New Year 2012 was being making its way through the world's largest country's nine time zones bringing joy, fireworks and music.
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New Years Events Around Thailand | Thailand Land of Smiles
Not sure what to do for New Years 2012 in Thailand? Well, here are some great ideas to bring in the New Year Thai style.
thailandlandofsmiles.com/.../years-events-aoround-thailand/
Inside Thailand -- New Year Celebration Prayers as a Tribute to His ...
The public has been invited to join Buddhist prayers at various temples across Thailandin celebration of the New Year 2012 and as a tribute to His Majesty King ...
thailand.prd.go.th/view_inside.php?id=6061
For Mumbaikars, the New Year party is in Thailand - Mumbai - DNA
'For the price of a return ticket to Goa one can get a full vacation in Thailand,' says Vijaya Hariharan of Travel Consultants.
www.dnaindia.com/.../report_for-mumbaikars-the-new-year-p...
Celebrate New Year in a Thai Temple | Thai Travel News by ...
As we approach the end of this year, I guess you are starting to think about where you will celebrate the Countdown. Maybe in a club or at one of the big...
www.thaitravelblogs.com/.../celebrate-new-year-in-a-thai-temp...
Thai New Year Festival | Travel and Escape
Take part in the world's largest water fight by heading to the Songkran Festival in Chiang Mai for a refreshing change.
www.travelandescape.ca/2011/12/thai-new-year-festival/
Security Measures Tightened For Thailand's New Year Festival
December 27, 2011 11:10 AM. Security Measures Tightened For Thailand's New Year Festival. BANGKOK, Dec 27 (Bernama) -- Thai police and soldiers have ...
www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id...
3 Best Places To Celebrate New Year's Eve - As We Travel - Travel ...
While the ”real” new year in Thailand is Songkran, celebrated in April, the calendarnew year is also celebrated around the country, and whether you're on the ...
www.aswetravel.com/3-best-places-to-celebrate-new-years-eve/
Thai New Year Celebration : Ely's Blog
International lao cultural awareness and bustling energy of hawaiis. Promotions in bangkokgoing for the popular. Guide to april every year, and...
bvradmrs.blogs.lalibre.be/.../thai-new-year-celebration.html
New Year's Eve around the world: Australia, China, Thailand, and ...
The tiny Kiribati Islands in the South Pacific were the first to ring in 2012, as New Year's celebrations began around the globe. The entire population is just over ...
www.citytv.com/.../177852--new-year-s-eve-around-the-worl...
Where to celebrate New Year's Eve in Bangkok - Thailand Business ...
You are living in Thailand or want to go there for the holiday season? Bangkok is undoubtedly the city to celebrate New Year: many opportunities are available ...
thailand-business-news.com/.../34089-where-to-celebrate-new-...
Public Events Over Christmas & New Year - Thailand Forum
Anyone know what public events are laid on over Xmas and New Year in Hua Hin and surrounding area? I saw them setting up what looked like a big mark...
www.thaivisa.com/.../521141-public-events-over-christmas-ne...
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MONGOLIA New Year 2012 Celebration, Jan 01, 2012

New Year's Traditions From Around the World
Gather.com
The culmination of this tradition is the Mongolian Cartwheel, a difficult but rewarding sexual position that requires a yak and a movie theatre-size package of Twizzler's Red Licorice. New Year's Eve is traditionally celebrated by a night of yak ...
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A breath of fire for nature this new Year of the Dragon
The Japan Times
Over those 50 years, I have celebrated New Year's about 40 times in Japan — and that's a lot of mochi (rice cakes) and sake, I can tell you!New Year's celebrations are very much a family affair in this country, with all kinds of food treats set out ...
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The Japan Times
Now where was I?
Hindustan Times
Question: What kind of person writes columns on New Year's Eve? Answer: A drunk person. Not that I'm sloshed, of course, it's just that finding the keys on this keyboard is a bit difficult, because they seem to run into one another. ...
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Cold Snap Brings China into 2012 with Fog, Rainfall
CRIENGLISH.com
The dawn curtained up 2012 by fogging north China and some southern parts away the first sunshine of the new year, and a cold front will bring most regions rainfall and snow from Jan. 1 to Jan. 3, said China's meteorological authority on Sunday. ...
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Looking Back On 2011
Giant Robot
I've spent every day since I got back in May preparing to disassemble my life here, and with just the nuts and bolts of who I am and what matters to me, make a new life inMongolia. After my last art show at GR2, ushering in the Year of the Dragon with ...
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Chinese Ethnic Dance: A Window Into China's Diversity (4 of 9)
The Epoch Times
Presenting the ethnic dances of Chinese minorities on stage is one of the hallmarks ofNew York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts. Founded in 2006, Shen Yun's mission is to revive 5000 years of Chinese culture, which was believed to be divinely inspired. ...
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The wait is over, The alternative rock band, Ulan Bator (US) has done it again
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Although Ulan Bator is also the name of the capital of Mongolia, the band, Ulan Bator (US) hails from New York and New Jersey. Praxeology was intended to be a triple CD with 60 tracks fueled by Frank's prolific song writing. Instead Frank stopped at 20 ...
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Carnival launches year-round short cruises
Breaking Travel News
The 2052-passenger Carnival Inspiration is launching year-round short cruises from Long Beach, providing an exciting new choice on this popular itinerary which encompasses three-day cruises departing Fridays to Ensenada and four-day cruises departing ...
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Breaking Travel News
Paul Mason: 'Economics has become about people and their troubles'
The Guardian
I was wondering whose male fantasy that was to put them in the Communist party parade. Some of your characters are Chinese but at times they sound like they could be from Wigan. Yes, but when you go to the industrial part of China, when you are among ...
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The Guardian
Winning $50 million lottery ticket sold in Ontario
CTV.ca
So to you thumbs downers I retract my best wishes for your family's health and prosperity and instead invite you to celebrate the lunar new year. InMongolia it's called "Tsaagan Tsaar" the big white moon. It's very important, Winning a lottery can be ...
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CTV.ca
Farmers and others see threat from drilling in a thirsty land
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
After public concerns were raised this year about drilling in the Karoo region, South African drilling officials set a moratorium on new licenses for exploration until February so the government could conduct more research. In July, the Advertising ...
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Luxury cars gearing up China biz
AsiaOne
And two weeks after establishing the showroom, the company put the cap on the prosperous year it had seen in 2011 by celebrating the opening of a new dealership in Chongqing, in Southwest China. It is expected to sell 1600 vehicles in China in 2011, ...
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AsiaOne
New Export Priorities for Russia: Perspectives of Energy Supplies to the ...
Oil and Gas Industry Latest News
Interstate power exchange to China, Mongolia, as well as Korea and Japan may amount to 60 billion kWh by the year 2030, depending on the pace of development projects implementation along with creating energy transport infrastructure (Fig. 8). ...
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Shen Yun 'Unbelievable' and 'Spectacular' Says Surgeon
The Epoch Times
New York based Shen Yun was founded in 2006 with the mission of reviving 5000 years of traditional Chinese culture through music and dance, says its website. The culture, founded on principles such as benevolence, wisdom, and sincerity, ...
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The Epoch Times
College Alumni Director: Shen Yun Is 'Gorgeous'
The Epoch Times
Over the past six years, the New York-based Shen Yun has toured in well over 100 cities across several continents. According to the company's website, it seeks to revive the ancient Chinese culture that was all-but-lost under communist rule in China. ...
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The Epoch Times
He suits, he scores: Testing two online options in Canadian made-to-measure ...
National Post (blog)
They divide their navigation bar by new arrivals, suits, shirts, blazers and coats, pants and accessories. They lack shoes, but offer scarves, collar stays and pins, and promise “the finest high thread count Australian Merino and Mongolian Cashmere ...
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National Post (blog)
WanderingTheWorld.com: FPMT Mongolia New Year Party
FPMT Mongolia New Year Party. On Friday, FPMT Mongolia had it's annual NewYear Party at the English Inn. Lots of food (too much food) and conversation, ...
jim-wandering.blogspot.com/.../fpmt-mongolia-new-year-part...
New Year celebration for Movie Fanatics : InfoMongolia.com : News ...
New Year celebration for Movie Fanatics. The "Mongolian Movie Fanatics" Union together with "Everyday International" LLC and Urguu (Urgoo) cinema are ...
www.infomongolia.com/ct/ci/2802
New Year's party to be held at Sukhbaatar Square - M.A.D. ...
Mayor G.Munkhbayar has announced that a New Year's Eve party will be held this year at Sukhbaatar Square.
www.mad-mongolia.com/.../new-year’s-party-to-be-held-at-su...
Fuxin Mongolian New Year Party held radio - News
Zhongguang Wang Shenyang, December 22 news (reporter Zhang Fuxin, Hu Ming, non-Taiwan) melodious music, sweet voice, strong ethnic dances .
www.f-paper.com/?i1089402-Fuxin-Mongolian-New...
Our staffs children New Year Party
On 26th of December, Monday evening Projects Abroad Mongolia organized a small perty for our staffs' children. They went to a game center first and then had ...
www.mytripblog.org/pg/.../our-staffs-children-new-year-party
Twitter / @KoenigAndreas/MongolTweet
Relevant twitter sources from & about Mongolian Society, Culture, Nature, Politics ...invest2mongolia Mongolia News: New Year's party to be held at Sukhbaatar ...
it.twitter.com/KoenigAndreas/lists/mongoltweet
Presentation Summary: Mongolian Perspectives on China ...
Mongolians pick a different date for their lunar New Year celebration than Chinese even though both follow the lunar calendar. Therefore, anti-Chinese attitudes ...
blogs.ubc.ca/.../presentation-summary-mongolian-perspectives...
Mongolian Image
The Mongolian New Year celebration according to the Lunar calendar is called Tsagaan Sar which means “White Moon”. Tsagaan Sar was celebrated in ...
www.countryvoyage.com/home/mongolian-image
Mongolian president spearheads fight against vodka - People's ...
As the New Year approaches, the president's executive office urged all ... to fight against alcoholism and not to use vodka during new year celebrations. ...
english.peopledaily.com.cn/90777/7690709.html
GASTRONOMIC GLOBETROTTING
The pre New Year party will have Mongolian, Continental, Chinese, Indian and tandoor preparations. There will be a free flow of premium spirits, cocktails and ...
www.telegraphindia.com/1111221/jsp/.../story_14908534.jsp
Fash Mob » What are you wearing on New Year's eve?
What are you wearing on New Year's eve?
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MONTSAME NAMES THIS YEAR'S HIGHLIGHT EVENTS IN ...
Request new password ... TNA New Year party lights up Thai-Cambodian. ...MONTSAME is naming the most important events occurred in Mongolia this year. 1. ...
www.oananews.org/.../montsame-names-years-highlight-event...
Mongolian president spearheads fight against vodka CCTV News ...
Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj Wednesday revoked the licenses of 50 bars ...As the New Year approaches, the president's executive office urged all ... to fight against alcoholism and not to use vodka during new year celebrations. ...
english.cntv.cn/20111228/118107.shtml
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