HERE are more clips of INQUIRER.net multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla’s Shanghai odyssey. Hope you’ll enjoy them.

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INQUIRER.NET multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla may be spending the holidays in China, but that hasn’t stopped her from working, heh

Check out this video she sent of her visit to the Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai.

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As noted in the video caption,, “hidden inside is the rare cultural relic, the Jade Buddha, which cannot be photographed or filmed out of respect for both Buddha and its pious followers.”

By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net

INQUIRER.NET reporter Lawrence Casiraya interviewed El Nido Resorts chef Rey de la Cruz and sampled the exotic delicacy known as tamilok.

While it looks like a worm, the tamilok is actually a mollusk that burrows inside the trees in Palawan’s mangrove areas. It’s supposed to be an aphrodisiac, hehe

Video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Alex Villafania at Miniloc island on Nov. 17.

For more videos from our Palawan adventure, check out my earlier post. And go to iVDO on Yahoo! for more videos from INQUIRER.net and our partners.

By Joey Alarilla
INQUIRER.net

UPDATE: Added a video.

WE went to Miniloc island in El Nido Resorts, Palawan last week to cover the annual Synergy information and communications technology forum jointly organized by Intel Philippines and Hewlett-Packard Philippines. This year’s Synergy was special because this was its 10th anniversary.

Of course, since we were in paradise, we not only covered the ICT forum itself but also shot videos for iVDO on Yahoo! and Tales for the Nomad, as well as producing content for different sites under INQUIRER.net. We wanted to show multimedia journalism in action, meaning the coverage provided by the INQUIRER.net team that attended (we’re informally known as the INQuboys, heh) not only included breaking news and Infotech articles, but also blog posts, podcast interviews and video. Because that’s how we are over at INQUIRER.net — we work hard and play hard, and we have fun while doing our jobs well.

Here’s an underwater video that INQUIRER.net reporter Lawrence Casiraya took with the waterproof Olympus mju 790SW digital camera that Axis Global lent us as a demo unit. We’re evaluating different digital cameras for our Editorial team, and this baby has really caught our attention.

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CHECK out this video from INQUIRER.net executive editor Leo Magno.

For more videos from INQUIRER.net and our partners, visit iVDO.

HONG KONG is such a busy city (I remember being there on a Sunday, wondering why the heck everyone was running up and down the escalators when it was a weekend) that people almost have no time to greet each other, let alone (gasp!) give each other hugs.

These young people want to change that situation.

Check out this video clip from Reuters.

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

WHAT’S the difference between alligators and crocodiles? Apparently not so much says this guy at Hartley’s Creek Crocodile Farm in Cairns.

The video below shows him feeding these nasty-looking crocs while telling us guests a thing or two about these reptiles.

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By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

ON A TRIP to Cairns over the weekend, Systimax treated us journalists to a trip to the Great Barrier Reef. To an avid scuba diver, this sure sounds like heaven. I’m not a certified diver, but once we were told we could do some snorkeling… man, this is the Great Barrier Reef!

To get close to the reef, we hopped on a boat from that would take us to Green Island. You could tell from the above picture it was early morning, people sipping coffee to go with some excellent hot muffins. Two hours on a boat sounds like fun, but not totally for seasick chumps like me.

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ENJOY this video of the Apsara dance or Khmer classical dance of Cambodia uploaded by mboogiedown.

HERE are interesting clips of a Filipino carinderia and sari-sari store in Osaka, Japan posted by jvtigno.