http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/ Announcement List for Tan Wee-Cheng's travels. Subscribers will be sent live updates about TWC's travels as well as news on hi Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:45:01 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/355 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/355 My latest collection of travelogues and third in the "Dodgy Places" series is out in eBook format (read on Kindle, Nook, iPad, iPhone, etc). You can purchase Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:28:58 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/354 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/354 Southern Africa Journey 2011 Dear all, I will be embarking on my 7-week Southern African journey on tonight.  9 countries will be covered: South Africa, Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:19:26 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/353 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/353   Official description: Wee Cheng's new book, Exotic Lands & Dodgy Places (revised edition of his first book with significant new content, stories, photos Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:34:11 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/352 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/352 Dear all, weecheng.com, which was set up in 1996, has been revamped. The site is now integrated with the Nomadic Republic blog (set up in 2004), such that one Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:33:13 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/351 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/351 Singapore International Foundation has just published this report about Tiong Bahru (in their quarterly Singapore Magazine) in which they quoted me: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:36:20 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/350 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/350 The name “Wallis and Futuna” would strike a blank expression with most people in the Anglophile world. This is a remote French territory in the South Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:50:30 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/349 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/349 Now in Apia, Samoa, into the 4th week of my Pacific trip. Here's my Tuvalu travelogue. Check out my blog at twcnomad.blogspot.com for my writings on Papua Tue, 11 May 2010 13:30:49 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/348 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/348 Dear all, Apologies for not writing alot in the last one year.  With the advent of blogging and Facebook, I have almost forgotten about my yahoogroups.     Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:43:51 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/347 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/347 Dear Friends, weecheng.com has been redesigned! Here's a screenshot of the redesigned site:   The key new features added include the following: - smashing new Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:36:16 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/346 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/346 The island of Hispaniola, or the “Spanish Island”, was so-named by Christopher Columbus when he discovered the island in 1492, during his first voyage to Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:18:25 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/345 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/345 When a group of Spanish conquistadors arrived on the northern coast of the South American continent in 1499, they saw natives living in houses on stilts over Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:03:42 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/344 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/344     Tonight (10 June), I will embark on an one-month journey through 6 countries and territories in the South America and the Western Caribbean, Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:45:57 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/343 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/343 The New Paper published a 2-page report on my travels yesterday (2 Feb 09), followed by a short summary on Straits Times Interactive Breaking News:   He's the Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:55:19 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/342 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/342 During the last 2 weeks, I visited parts of China, Thailand and Indonesia in rapid succession.? I have posted a number of short blog entries and hundreds of Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:48:57 GMT Tan Wee Cheng http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/341 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twc-nomad/message/341 ? Singapore At Last - WeeCheng Completes Odyssey2 ? After a long flight from Beirut via Dubai, I have finally arrived in Singapore.? Odyssey2, my second