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Web In Travel Start-up Pitch Competition!

The Web In Travel (WIT) Start-Up Pitch is part of WIT’s mission to unearth creative ideas in the digital media space and to match entrepreneurs with potential investors.
Held this year from 20 to 23 October 2009, bluewalks was voted as the favourite among the many entires in WIT’s second Start Up Pitch Competition held in [...]

Featured Walk: Singapore by happywhale

Walk created by: happywhale
Photograph by: electrolight
Singapore (Chinese: 新加坡, Xīnjiāpō; Malay: Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர், Cingkappūr), officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, lying 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia’s Riau Islands. At [...]

An eerie month: The Hungry Ghost Festival

Like how the Western societies have Halloween, the Chinese have the Hungry Ghost festival.
The Hungry Ghost Festival on the 15th day of the 7th month in the Lunar Calendar (usually from August to September in the Georgian Calendar). However, the whole of the month is considered the Ghost month. It is believed that ghosts, spirits [...]