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By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterPeople who are planning to travel overseas during the holiday season are expected to pay 20 to 40 percent more for package tours, but they can still find inexpensive travel deals to several destinations, the Travel Quality Assurance Association yesterday told a news conference in Taipei, at which it released a forecast on group tour fees for the first quarter of next year.

Canterbury's Selwyn District sees population explosion, but is its growth sustainable? Newshub 14 hrs ago Holly Henry © Newshub Selwyn District is going through a construction boom and a population explosion. But where are the limits? The Selwyn District just south of Christchurch used to be a sleepy rural settlement. Now it's going through a construction boom and a population explosion. What makes it so attractive? Let's just say: New four-bedroom home with double glazed windows for $550,000. Selwyn is both liveable and affordable - but at the rate it's growing is it sus...

Search Button Flash Contest #29, March 2021: Write a story set somewhere you’ve never been–our winners and their work March 12, 2021 By Caleb Berg Our March Flash Contest was based on our weekly creativity prompt #142, asking contestants to stretch the limits of their imagination in order to write a story set somewhere they had never been. As always, selecting the winners was exceedingly difficult due to the abundance of quality work, but this month our editors were left especially in awe as three different pieces were also selected to be published separately on the blog. These writer's c...

Search Button Flash Contest #28, February 2021: Pretend your favorite character has social media–our winners and their work February 13, 2021 By Caleb Berg Our February Flash Contest was based on our weekly creativity prompt #138, asking writers to put themselves in the shoes of one of their favorite characters by pretending this character had social media, and entrants did not disappoint. From added wrinkles to the wizarding world of Harry Potter, to illustrations of beloved cartoons, and even to the outer reaches of space, we received a wide array of submissions that challenged traditiona...

Stone Soup Newsletter: January 16, 2021 January 16, 2021 A note from William Waitlist for the Saturday Writing Workshop: The writing workshop begins next Saturday, Jan. 23. It is going to be a fun class. We are working with creativity and chance. Yes, we will be rolling dice! Enrollment was opened to existing class members last week, and 38 students have signed up. As I don’t want the class to get too big, we have closed off registration. If you want to take the class, then please register as soon as possible. You will be added to a waitlist. We will give priority to students who were in th...