sampan

After the meal has run its last course and the paper-covered table is heaped with refuse and shells, you'll cast off and tie up to an entertainment sampan where a stone-faced, three-woman orchestra, armed with flutes, bells, drums and unfamiliar stringed instruments, knocks off barely intelligible renditions of Western tunes you select yourself from a song menu.

Janna Sampan, founder of Bride & Breakfast said, "The goal of the fair has always been one that is deeply aligned to both the Bride &Breakfast and Baby & Breakfast, which is to make planning for your special celebration much easier."

Chew, 57, was arrested by Police Coast Guard officers about 2.4 nautical miles east of the Pulau Ubin Main Jetty in a motorised sampan.

The other two children were the house owner's niece and nephew, Baby Love Sampaco, 10, and Gerald Sampan, 9.

She took a tiny suitcase the size of a cabin bag and travelled by ship, horse, rickshaw, Chinese sampan and donkey.

Other gigantic installations include a 4.4-metre tall wau (Kelantanese kite) which allows the curious to learn about the richness and diversity of Malay arts and culture, and a 12-metre wide kelong (offshore platform made of wood) and sampan (fishing boat) that will form the main stage area for weekly performances and movie screenings.

At one point, a family in a sampan traveling in the opposite direction smiled and waved.

However, Sampan Silapanad, president of the Electronic and Computer Employers' Association, said the problem had been limited to Bangkok and even there disruption was minimal.

By Johanna M Sampan, Jefferson Antiporda & Llanesca T Panti/Manila Times The six leading candidates in the senatorial race were proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday night, and the six other winners might be proclaimed today.

We take in the Peak, the highest point in the city with spectacular views, board a sampan for a brief trip around Aberdeen Harbour and finish with a shopping spree at Stanley Market on the far side of the island.

Escaping the city, we take to the water again, this time on the Mekong River via sampan boat to Cai Be and Cai Rang's famous floating markets where traders jostle to sell produce from their long narrow boats.

We cruised on a sampan along the Tan Tach canal, stopping at a rare bee farm, sampling fresh honey and tropical fruits while we were entertained by local musicians and singers.

sampan race that will be held off the coast of the eastern city of Qingdao during the four-day celebration.

Visit the fishing village of Sai Kung (take the underground to Diamond Hill then get a bus) and hire a skippered sampan from the harbour for an hour-long pootle around the bay and islets.

Dave laughed: "We were setting up to cook for the ladies who work at the sampan boats in Hoi An when a French tourist passed us.