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Crazy Jump Macau Tower: Bungy jumpers in costume at the highest commercial skyjump in the world

The 2017 Macau Tower AirAsia Crazy Jump (an AJ Hackett event). Competitors bungy jumping in costume from the world’s highest commercial bungy jump in Macau, China.

Travel Reads

I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor

“And then served customers Iceland ready meals on its opening night.”

Has Airbnb lost its appeal?

“No longer a scrappy startup for low-key tourists, Airbnb has become, well, complicated.”

The Sun Writers Club: Meet the maids reporting Hong Kong's hidden stories

“After she finishes cooking dinner, cleaning up and reading her employer’s children a bedtime story, Marites Palma aims to be in bed by 9pm — especially if a deadline is looming.”

Why hasn't Australia developed more diverse regional accents?

“Researchers are asking why there isn’t more regional variation of the English-Australian accent, but in their quest they’ve also found an increasing…”

Why is Berlin so dysfunctional? - Poor and sexy

“At a crossroads in the middle of Tegeler Forst, a wooded part of north-west Berlin, visitors can admire the city’s longest-serving provisional traffic light. Erected in 2013 after a burning car had destroyed the pillar on which the lights were mounted, it was meant to be replaced by a more permanent structure within a few weeks.”

Cambodia

A Long-Dead Cambodian King Is Back — and He Looks Familiar

“Some think Prime Minister Hun Sen considers himself the reincarnation of a 16th-century ruler. Recently built statues certainly suggest a resemblance.”

Cambodia's first ice skating team chases Winter Olympic dream

“Cambodia only recently got its first ice skating rink - but dreams big of the Winter Olympics.”

Cambodia goes all-in on China in casino port city

“Between Sihanoukville’s beaches and its multiplying casinos, "Lao Qi” and Bun Saroeun run restaurants barely a hundred dusty meters apart. But their fortunes could not be more different.“

Instagram

The festive season in Macau.

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