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...historic edifice has been artfully turned into 72 apartment-style rooms, outfitted in a pared-down combination of bleached wood and concrete. Designed by architects Guiliana Salmaso and Goetz Maximilian Keller, each of the rooms comes with an unusually well-appointed kitchenette, including such flourishes as champagne flutes and Asian-accented porcelain. Living areas come stocked with seductive Linari room fragrances, gender-specific toiletries by La Bottega, flat-screen TVs, DVD players and DSL high-speed Internet access. The hotel also boasts an Aveda beauty salon, a "wellness center" and a restaurant-bar serving Italian-Asian fusion cuisine. Says...
...brewed from the youngest tea leaves), and organic Nilgiri, Darjeeling and Assam teas, all served in white china, with an hourglass to measure brewing time. Reasonably priced European fare - quiches, bruschetta, pastas and such - is offered for lunch and dinner. Tibetan momo dumplings and Thai noodles add some Asian pep. At the other end of the price spectrum is Jamavar at the Leela Palace Hotel (theleela.com). The flagship restaurant of the Leela hotel group is opulently designed with chandeliers and exquisite Jamavar shawls. The focus is on North Indian and tandoori items, and most dishes follow traditional recipes without...
...somewhat neglecting the capacity or desire of the al-Qaeda organization to destabilize the Southeast Asia region." JEAN-LOUIS BRUGUI?RE,France's top terrorism investigator, warning that al-Qaeda could be planning to attack a major Asian financial center such as Tokyo or Singapore in order to create economic havoc...
...This is going to create great problems with the Japanese?with all the yellow people." GEORGE BALL, Undersecretary of State to former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, worrying about perceptions of anti-Asian racism in a newly declassified 1963 recording of Kennedy and his advisers debating whether to use nuclear weapons against China if it tried to invade India...
...longer oil prices continue to climb, the greater the inflationary pressures will become. Rodrigo de Rato, the IMF's managing director, said last week that if high oil prices persist, "the impact on Asian growth will be considerable." Degussa's Wagner also warns that his forecast of continued profit growth depends on the stabilizing of raw-material prices. "There's tremendous uncertainty," says Deutsche Bank's Wall. For the moment, though, Europe's business executives, policymakers and central bankers are sitting tight, hoping their luck isn't about to change...