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Highlights include island-hopping tours, exploring hidden lagoons and ... boat rides on the Thu Bon River Langkawi boasts stunning beaches, lush rainforests, luxurious resorts.

From the cable car and a magical sky bridge nestled in the clouds, to spas, mangrove tours, island hopping and markets, there are plenty of things to do in Langkawi, Malaysia. After a few days in ...

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While it is always tempting to just laze away the day on a palm-fringed beach, many visitors to Langkawi hike inland, to Seven Wells, the island’s most famous waterfall. But there is an easier ...

Every time I visit Malaysia I make sure to escape for a few days to Langkawi, a paradise bolthole of palm-fringed sandy ...

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LANGKAWI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has activated Ops Guard following the discovery of a boat with almost 200 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. MMEA director-general Rear ...

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said the boats were located two nautical miles (3.7km) south-west of the northern resort of Langkawi late in the evening on Jan 3. “MMEA provided ...

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Around 250 people holding British Overseas Territories citizenship live on the archipelago's only inhabited island, also called Tristan da Cunha, in a community known as Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.