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Detailed guide to child-friendly resorts in Asia

A guide to Asian child-friendly resorts where your toddlers won’t come a-cropper crossing a four-lane highway to get to the beach. Some of these look fun!Detailed guide to child-friendly resorts in Asia./a>

Internet to remain sluggish until mid-month

Residential internet users will continue to experience slow Web connections until at least the middle of January, telecommunications officials said yesterday.

Internet service providers (ISPs) had reached 70 to 80 per cent of their international connection capacity by yesterday, according to the Office of the Telecommunications Authority, but businesses would be given priority over residential connections until submarine cables damaged in the Boxing Day earthquake could be repaired.

One ship remains in the Luzon Strait off Taiwan to repair six cables damaged in the quake, while a second ship, damaged on the way to the scene, was still undergoing repairs in Taiwan.

Ha Yung-kuen, acting director-general of telecommunications, said four other ships would arrive at the scene in the next week to help repair cables in a 300km-wide area.

He said the earthquake had caused huge damage to the seabed "turning mountains into valleys and valleys into mountains", but added: "If one of the six damaged cables can be brought back to service by the middle of this month, we expect the internet can resume normal service."

AsiaMedia :: Internet to remain sluggish until mid-month, says telecoms body