Bangkok--27 Dec--eTurboNews
Sri Lanka has announced new tourism projects as part of the country's tsunami recovery plans. For the details on these projects, read today's lead story. Yusof Sulaiman reports.
Germany and Tanzania signed bilateral air services to attract German airlines to operate in Tanzania, sixteen years after German national airline, Lufthansa closed its offices in Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam on grounds of loss making. Apolinari Tairo reports, in today's second story.
Virgin Atlantic is reducing pollution from aircraft engines by towing airliners to a starting grid close to the runway, rather than burning kerosene while taxiing across the apron under the engines' own power. The procedure will cut the greenhouse gas emissions and help in the fight against global warming. David Browne reports, in today's third story.