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Corrections are presented to articles about the visit of Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz to China, a film review of "The Instigators," and the plan of ride-hailing services company Uber in Nevada regarding a ballot measure that would reduce legal fees for plaintiffs.

The article focuses on a three-year round-the-world cruise organized by Life at Sea Cruises, which faced cancellation after failing to acquire a ship, leading to concerns and challenges for prospective passengers.

The article offers information on the tourist attractions of several countries including China, Korea and Singapore. China is famous for its iconic landmarks, skyscrapers of steel and glass and the 3,948-mile-long Great Wall of China. Korea is known for its Jongmyo Royal Shrine and the National Museum of Contemporary Art. The famous landmarks of Singapore includes the National Museum and the Botanic Gardens, it is also famous among tourists as a shopping destination.

The article focuses on a campaign to expand international interest in heritage of Jiayuguan, which has been reportedly overshadowed by sections of the Great Wall of China outside Beijing, as of December 2016. It states that the campaign launched by officials of the province is aimed at transforming the area into a tourism destination, and mentions historical prominence of the wall built in Ming dynasty. Comments from producer Peter Loehr on the same are presented,.

The article reports on the repaired section of the Great Wall of China which gained attention from Chinese preservationists, internet users and media commentators.

The article presents the author's comments about the Great Wall of China. The view of the Great Wall was breathtaking. Half of the 4000 miles long wall does not exist today. The Chinese government is serious about the safety of the wall and planning to have a national regulation for its protection. According to an estimate, around 13 million tourists visit the wall in 2005. The growing popularity is causing problems for the wall.

A SIMPLE painted sign on a wooden board -- ''To Mexico'' -- was propped near the door in the fence, but it was the fence itself that fascinated me. Some masterpieces are unintentional, the result of a freakish accident or an explosive act of sheer weirdness, and the fence that divides Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Mexico, is one of them. In a lifetime of crossing borders I find this pitiless fence the oddest frontier I have ever seen -- more formal than the Berlin Wall, more brutal than the Great Wall of China, yet in its way just as much an example of the same folie de grandeur. Built just six months ago, this towering, seemingly endless row of vertical steel beams is so amazing in its conceit you either want to see more of it, or else run in the opposite direction -- just the sort of conflicting emotions many people feel when confronted with a peculiar piece of art. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TARO, Japan -- So unshakable was this town's faith in its sea wall and its ability to save residents from any tsunami that some rushed toward it after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeast Japan on the afternoon of March 11. After all, the sea wall was one of Japan's tallest and longest, called the nation's ''Great Wall of China'' by the government and news media. Its inner wall was reinforced by an outer one, and they stretched 1.5 miles across the bay here. The surface was so wide that high school students jogged on it, townspeople strolled on it, and some rode their bicycles on it. A local junior high school song even urged students: ''Look up at our sea wall. The challenges of tsunamis are endless.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Maybe it's time for Chinese masons to consider a class-action defamation lawsuit. Because time and again in recent years, when there's a catastrophe, somebody blames the failure of a Chinese wall. It is the metaphor-slash-cliche of our age, a shorthand for the barrier intended to keep conflicting interests apart at organizations where those interests are housed under one roof. Lots of professionals work alongside Chinese walls, including doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers and journalists. The idea is to divide one piece of an institution -- often the part that makes money -- from another, usually the part that is focused on something other than profits. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Great Firewall of China is hardly impregnable. Just as Mongol invaders could not be stopped by the Great Wall, Chinese citizens have found ways to circumvent the sophisticated Internet censorship systems designed to restrict them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A garment company in New York known for publicity stunts has seized the attention of the Obama administration. The Weatherproof Garment Company installed a billboard in Times Square on Wednesday showing President Obama wearing what appears to be one of its coats. The image, which is licensed by The Associated Press, was taken during the president's visit to the Great Wall of China last November. Weatherproof also put the image on its Web site home page for a time on Wednesday, promoting ''The Obama Jacket.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The police in China have detained two project managers for a mining company who are accused of causing serious damage to one of the oldest sections of the Great Wall, the state media reported. The Hohhot Kekao Mining Company is suspected of destroying about 330 feet of the wall while prospecting for gold in Inner Mongolia, northwest of Beijing, said Xinhua, the state news agency. The damage was discovered in September along a section of the wall that dates from the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and that is much less grand than the sections of the wall on the outskirts of Beijing that are tourist destinations. The two officials could face up to 10 years in prison depending on the degree of damage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On his last day in China, President Obama went to see the Great Wall. At around 3:32 p.m. on Wednesday, Mr. Obama's motorcade arrived at the wall's Badaling section, which snakes over jagged, rocky mountains. The usual cacophony of vendors at the wall was absent as the whole place was largely shuttered for the presidential visit. The bustling tourist attraction looked like a ghost town. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a professional skateboarding career that has spanned nearly 20 years, Danny Way has performed many first feats, like launching over the Great Wall of China in 2005 by using a mega ramp, an outsize creation he brought to the X Games a year earlier to create the sport's newest and most thrilling spectacle. Although he will be part of the broadcasting crew at the Staples Center when the X Games begin Thursday, providing commentary on his creation, the skateboard Big Air competition, Way wants to make one thing clear about his career: he is not done. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WALKING THE GREAT WALL NEAR SIMATAI, CHINA, MARCH 23, 2009 Hollis Duncan, 33, a graphic designer recently relocated to Barcelona from New York. ''We didn't want to visit the most crowded section at Badaling, so we opted instead for Simatai, which is more remote and beautiful. From Beijing, we took a public bus about 50 miles to Miyun, and from there arranged for a driver. We underestimated how difficult it was to reach Simatai independently; we couldn't find anyone who spoke English, plus we ran out of money and needed an ATM basically in the middle of nowhere. But it was worth the toil! The wall blends in with its natural surroundings: brown-on-brown with touches of green, sweeping into infinity. The turrets along the wall measure distance. I'd feel such a sense of accomplishment when I reached the next one. What surprised me was how epic the wall is. It was definitely built on a nonhuman scale. So was Tiananmen Square. China makes you realize how small you are.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Great Wall of China turns out to be even greater than had been thought. A two-year government mapping study has uncovered new sections of the wall that total about 180 miles, according to a report posted on the Web site of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For decades, locals in this frigid outpost south of Siberia shaved and chipped and hacked away at big blocks of ice to create China's most popular wintertime tourist attraction. Rising among the barren trees, the sculptures of the Harbin Ice Lantern Festival took the shapes of iconic Chinese monuments: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, sacred Buddhist mountains. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHOTOS: GREETINGS FROM CHINA: Above, young Chinese girls singing during a ceremony to welcome athletes to the Olympic Village. Below left, cyclists passing through a gate at the Great Wall in Badaling, north of Beijing. Below right, the fountains near the National Aquatics Center, known as the Water Cube. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY, ABOVE,DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES; BELOW LEFT, JONATHAN FERREY/GETTY IMAGES; BELOW RIGHT, FENG LI/GETTY IMAGES) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

''I WENT to see the Great Wall. You know, you read about it for years. And actually, it was really great. It was really, really, really great.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PHOTO: Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Joe Torre visiting the Great Wall of China on Friday. The Dodgers will play the San Diego Padres in exhibition games Saturday and Sunday in Beijing, Major League Baseball's first games in China.(PHOTOGRAPH BY GUANG NIU/GETTY IMAGES) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on a declaration made by the news agency Xinhua that the Great Wall of China is eroded by sandstorms in China. According to the news agency, more than 37 miles of the wall in Minqin County in Gansu Sheng has disappeared. It has been predicted that the wall would disappear in 20 years provided the erosion continues.

The article presents information on a balloting conducted by the New7Wonders, a nonprofit organization, which says that the Great Wall of China is still standing as one of the new seven wonders of the world. The Associated Press reported that about 100 million votes were cast online and in text messages.

The article presents information about Beijing, China-based photographer Shi Guorui and his contemporary collection of photographs and arts. Shi works exclusively with pinhole cameras which he constructs himself out of wood. Shi built a camera obscura with a watchtower along the Great Wall of China, and also built another image chamber across from Mount Everest. Information on his future scheduled exhibitions at various places worldwide has also been offered in the article.

Highlights the art exhibition "The Wall," that explores the major retrospective of Chinese contemporary art, which runs through August 21, 2005, and opens at the State University at Buffalo, New York. Comment of curator Gao Minglu about the symbolism of the show of the nation's emergence in the early 20th century; Other exhibitions that features the Great Wall of China.

Reports the damages on the Great Wall of China caused by vandalism and other man-made changes.

Narrates family outing experiences to the Great Wall at Mutianyu in China. Transformation of historic treasures by the tourist industry in China; Visit to Beidaihe, the beach resort on the Bohai Sea; Features of Old Summer Palace on the outskirts of Beijing, China.

Presents information on trips to celebrate the year 2000. Weeklong trip to Algonquin Park in Ontario; Outdoor sports trip offered by Roads Less Traveled company to Queensland, Australia; New Year's Eve party on the Great Wall in China; Safari to the Serengeti Plain of Tanzania.

Focuses on the Great Wall of China, as part of the onslaught of commercialism, gripping the country. History of the Great Wall; How the wall is being used in the mid-1990s as an international marketplace; Detailed information on the Great Wall as a tourist attraction.

Reports that segments of the Great Wall of China that have been lost in centuries of desert sand were discovered in radar images taken from the space shuttle Endeavour in April 1994. Images showing two parallel sections of wall built centuries apart; Dynasties that built the Great Wall.