European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 17 2007 stars an strip e s Page 15 Asi Pacific vies for cruise ship travellers by Adrian Sainz the associated press Miami Beach Fla the port of Shanghai is getting a new cruise passenger terminal Southeast asian nations Are team ing up on a web site for cruise travellers officials from China Are using the 2008 olym pics to promote a Triangle of Northern cruise ports and dont forget about us says Taiwan heres Asia cruising new Frontier representatives from the Asi Pacific Region attended the sea Trade cruise shipping con Ference this week beginning an aggressive marketing Campaign with the goal of Mak ing Asia a competitor in the world cruise Market Many of them toured ports in Miami and port Everglades to get a sense of us port operations Asia is Blooming maybe because peo ple Are too familiar with the South Caribbean or South America and you know Europe is too expensive said Michael by Chang director of the Taipei economic and cultural office in new York most of the countries in Asia Are in a very Good shape and its reasonable in Cost and it has major wonders and culture the Asi Pacific Region lags behind the Caribbean Europe and Alaska in notoriety As a cruise destination but asian officials contend there is Lon term growth Poten tial for a Region with improving ports and alluring destinations such As the great Wall of China and the Jungles of Indonesia they predict that cruising will grow 40 per cent to 15 million passengers in 2010 in the Region infrastructure is mentioned As a major obstacle in terms of ship and passenger capacity with Many ports falling Short of hav ing adequate transportation in and out of port facilities for example Security deployment costs and creating More interest in cruising among asian trav Elers Are other challenges the worlds two largest cruise operators carnival corp and Royal Caribbean cruises Ltd Are establishing a presence in Asia carnivals Costa cruises already offers Asi Pacific vacations on the Costa Al Legra and Royal caribbeans rhapsody of the seas will become the largest ship in the Region when it begins its deployment in de Cember both ships will target Asia As a source Market Colin Veitch president and chief executive of norwegian cruise line a wholly owned subsidiary of Star cruises group said Star cruises which sails in the Asi Pacific Region has seen bureaucratic issues related to cruising in China and a reluctance of asians to take trips longer than two or three Days cruises Are quite new to the chinese people so its important for us to educate the Public about the cruise ship lifestyle said Chen Xii Yuan president of the Shang Hai International port group the chinese Are reaching out to us tour operators and travel agents to pro Mote their country which saw 17 million total us visitors last year and hosts the 2008 olympics in Beijing the port of Tian Jin is billed As 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thursday to withdraw a bestselling childrens Book from stores after meeting with a prominent antisemitism watch dog group that accused the author of spreading messages echoing nazi propaganda the series of comic books titled Meon Nara iwo of Nara or far countries near countries and authored by visual arts pro Fessor Rhie Wonok purports to teach children about the world and has sold More than 10 million copies since the first volume was published in 1987 one of three books on the us published in 2004 contains a Chap Ter claiming jews were the driving Force for the hatred that led to the sept 11 attacks that they exert control Over All us Media and also prevent korean Ameri cans from succeeding in the United states rabbi Abraham Cooper of the los Angele based Simon Wiesenthal Center met with the author at his publishing company thursday in Seoul confronting Rhie with copies from the groups archives of the Early 20th Century nazi Magazine Der Stuermer to show its similarity to caricatures in the South korean books i asked him straight out where did you get your stuff from did you get it from die Stu Ermer Cooper said accompanying Cooper was Richard Choi Bertsch a member of the National Korea american coalition who also called shies Book prejudiced we condemn the Content of this Book Bertsch told reporters Cooper also raised questions about drawings of african Ameri cans