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. Excluding breakfast. Ideally located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur's lively Chinatown is Hotel China Town Inn offering affordable accommodations with free wireless internet access in public areas. Rooms offer a TV, comfortable bed and attached bathroom. Most rooms offer air conditioning. Services offered by Hotel China Town Inn include a tour desk, car rental and laundry services. Hotel China Town Inn is close to the LRT (light rail) Station, Pudu Raya Bus Station and Bukit Bintang Shopping Centre. It is also within walking distance from various attractions.

. Excluding breakfast. Ideally located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur's lively Chinatown is Hotel China Town Inn offering affordable accommodations with free wireless internet access in public areas. Rooms offer a TV, comfortable bed and attached bathroom. Most rooms offer air conditioning. Services offered by Hotel China Town Inn include a tour desk, car rental and laundry services. Hotel China Town Inn is close to the LRT (light rail) Station, Pudu Raya Bus Station and Bukit Bintang Shopping Centre. It is also within walking distance from various attractions.

Learn how to order a plane ticket in this week’s episode of Peggy Teaches Chinese.

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We Inhabitat writers have had our fair share of bicycles and bicycle parts stolen on the mean streets of New York City. It seems these days you’ve got to lock everything down (even the brakes!) in order to keep your cycle intact. That often means buying more than one lock and disassembling your bike every time you leave it unguarded. Kevin Scott hopes to change all of that. He just unveiled his revolutionary bendable bike. That’s right, with the push of a lever the cycle becomes bike-Houdini and can wrap around any post making it easy to secure all its parts with just one lock. No more clunky chains? Sign us up!

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Mostly cloudy 26°C

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88%

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We’ve seen some cool treehouses here at Inhabitat, but never as zany as this creepy hotel in Dalat, Vietnam. Unlike regular treehouses, which sit upon the branches of trees, the Hang Nga Guesthouse (a.k.a. “Crazy House”) actually is a tree (although some of it is concrete and other materials). Named for the architect who built it, Hang Viet Nga, the spooky hotel is known for its Alice in Wonderlandish, dark fairy tale mood and wildly organic twists and turns. Would you stay at this weird and wonderful treehouse retreat?

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Pinakin Patel, a designer who first got his start creating picture frames in Mumbai, has released a new prefab luxury villa for India. The Hara Villa is a one bedroom retreat that can be erected anywhere and designed to have a low impact on its surrounding environment. Hara, which means “green” in Hindi, is built from local materials with a strong focus on energy efficiency and water conservation and is designed to run off solar power. But act now, because the home is a limited edition model and then there will be no more!

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Malaysia's LBS Bina Group Bhd plans a "multi-million ringgit" sukuk program to finance its housing development projects, according to an invitation to a signing ceremony sent by public relations company Rantau PR. MIMB Investment Bank Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of EON Bank Bhd, will sign an agreement with LBS Bina on July 13 to be the principal advisor and lead arranger for the Islamic bonds, the invitation said. This will be the first Islamic securities issuance in Malaysia to be guaranteed by Danajamin Nasional Bhd, the nation's first financial guarantee insurer, according to the invitation. Bloomberg

PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has taken emergency measures to shut down production pipelines at offshore platforms 240 kilometres off the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia after a thin layer of oil sheen was sighted. The sheen was sighted near facilities operated by Petronas' production sharing contractors, comprising Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc and Newfield Peninsular Malaysia Inc, Petronas said in a statement today. Efforts are ongoing to identify the source of the sheen, using remotely operated underwater vehicle as well as subsea pipeline tests, said the national oil corporation. As per standard procedure, emergency response and oil spill teams, including those from the Petroleum Industry of Malaysia Mutual Aid Group and East Asia Response Ltd, were mobilised to the area. All relevant authorities, including the Department of Environment, were informed, Petronas said. The contractors have cleaned up the majority of the sheen and are now monitoring the situation via aerial and marine surveillance, it added. BERNAMA