1 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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KRI
Bima Suci (945) is a
barque and
training ship of the
Indonesian Navy .
Bima Suci was
launched on 18 September 2017 by Freire Shipyard,
Vigo ,
Spain . The vessel was
commissioned in 2017.
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5 August 2025 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General
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The nine-dash line or ten-dash line, also referred to as the eleven-dash line by
Taiwan , is a set of
line segments on various maps that accompanied the claims of the People’s Republic of China (PRC, “
Mainland China “) and the
Republic of China (ROC, “Taiwan”) in the
South China Sea .
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1 December 2024 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General , Bon appétit
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Spring rolls are rolled
appetizers or
dim sum commonly found in
Chinese ,
Vietnamese and
Southeast Asian cuisines. The kind of wrapper, fillings, and cooking technique used, as well as the name, vary considerably depending on the region’s culture, though they are generally filled with vegetables.
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18 June 2022 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , Museums, Exhibitions
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🔊 Listen to this Post documenta is an
exhibition of
contemporary art which takes place every five years in
Kassel , Germany. It was founded by artist, teacher and curator
Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the
Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultural Show) which took place in Kassel at that time. It was an attempt to bring Germany up to speed with modern art, both banishing and repressing the cultural darkness of
Nazism . This first
documenta featured many artists who are generally considered to have had a significant influence on modern art (such as
Picasso and
Kandinsky ). The more recent
documentas feature art from all continents; nonetheless most of it is
site-specific . The Indonesian art collective
ruangrupa serves as
documenta fifteen ‘s artistic director.
documenta fifteen is taking place at 32 locations in Kassel, including the
Fridericianum , with the main focus on the perspectives of the “
Global South “.
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25 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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Bali is a
province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the
Lesser Sunda Islands . Located east of
Java and west of
Lombok , the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably
Nusa Penida ,
Nusa Lembongan , and
Nusa Ceningan . The provincial capital,
Denpasar , is the
most populous city in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the second largest, after
Makassar , in
Eastern Indonesia . Bali is the only
Hindu-majority province in Indonesia, with 83.5% of the population adhering to
Balinese Hinduism .
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24 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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Sumatra is a large island in western
Indonesia that is part of the
Sunda Islands . It is the largest island that is located entirely in Indonesia (after
Borneo , which is shared between Indonesia and other countries) and the
sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km² (not including adjacent islands such as the Riau Islands and Bangka Belitung Islands). The
Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra site was inscribed as a
UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. The 25,951 km² area of the World Heritage Site includes the National Parks
Gunung Leuser ,
Kerinci Seblat and
Bukit Barisan Selatan .
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23 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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Java is bordered by the
Indian Ocean on the south and the
Java Sea on the north. With a population of over 141 million (Java only) or 145 million (including the inhabitants of its surrounding islands), Java is the home to 56.7 percent of the
Indonesian population and is the world’s
most populous island . The
Indonesian capital city,
Jakarta , is located on its
northwestern coast. Much of Indonesian history took place on Java. It was the center of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, the Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial
Dutch East Indies . Java was also the center of the
Indonesian struggle for independence during the 1930s and 1940s. Java dominates
Indonesia politically, economically and culturally. Four of Indonesia’s eight UNESCO world heritage sites are located in Java:
Ujung Kulon National Park ,
Borobudur Temple ,
Prambanan Temple , and
Sangiran Early Man Site .
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22 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General
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Borneo is the third-
largest island in the world and the largest in
Asia . At the geographic centre of
Maritime Southeast Asia , in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of
Java , west of
Sulawesi , and east of
Sumatra . The
island is politically divided among three countries:
Malaysia and
Brunei in the north, and
Indonesia to the south. Approximately 73% of the island is Indonesian territory (
East ,
South ,
West ,
North and
Central Kalimantan ,
Kalimantan ). In the north, the
East Malaysian states of
Sabah and
Sarawak make up about 26% of the island. Additionally, the Malaysian federal territory of
Labuan is situated on a small island just off the coast of Borneo. The sovereign state of
Brunei , located on the north coast, comprises about 1% of Borneo’s land area. A little more than half of the island is in the
Northern Hemisphere including Brunei and the Malaysian portion, while the Indonesian portion spans both the Northern and
Southern hemispheres. The largest Indonesian cities on Borneo are:
Samarinda ,
Banjarmasin ,
Balikpapan ,
Pontianak ,
Palangka Raya ,
Banjarbaru ,
Tarakan ,
Singkawang , and
Bontang . Borneo is home to one of the oldest
rainforests in the world.
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21 May 2019 | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien | Category: General
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Sulawesi, formerly known as
Celebes , is one of the four
Greater Sunda Islands , and the
world’s eleventh-largest island , situated east of
Borneo , west of the
Maluku Islands , and south of
Mindanao and the
Sulu Archipelago . Within Indonesia, only
Sumatra ,
Borneo and
Papua are larger in territory, and only
Java and Sumatra have larger populations.
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