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...simple answer is no, unless you count cricket, which the International Olympic Committee rather unsportingly doesn't. The painful truth is India is rubbish at pretty much every other game. It has no football team worthy of the name, ranking 142nd in the world, behind the Maldives (paradise-island nation, pop. 339,330). Its rugby squad lost 78-3 in a recent match in England, to Pershore (pleasant market town, pop. 7,304). And in a century of Olympics, India has won just 16 medals?fewer than that other nation of a billion, China, typically wins at a single Games...
...clean, effective system of public administration?not always qualities found in abundance in the region. But as Asia's cities modernize and its economies open up, Singapore?which has a population of just 4.4 million?must remain competitive. That may mean that the famously neat and manicured island will have to provide the sense of messy excitement that makes the world's great cities places where lively minds want to live...
Phuket is undergoing a makeover. New resorts in or near Thailand's capital of sun and sleaze are cleaning up the island's image, with chic, boutique properties popping up wherever you cast your sunglassed gaze. Leading the charge is Sanctuary Resorts. The Hong Kong-based, eco-conscious developer recently opened two facilities in the area...
...Just an hour's drive from Phuket airport lies Khao Lak on the mainland and better known among divers as the jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff members are clad in black, and so is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start around $85 a night. Meanwhile, a 30-minute speedboat ride away from Phuket's main town, on Racha Island, lies the Racha. Fronting one of Thailand's most pristine beaches, this Sanctuary resort boasts 70 villas. Some...
...Manhattan, which houses America's biggest bank. It looms over a city that was once the very symbol of urban blight in America. On a clear day the more famous spires of Manhattan are visible from Newark, and so too is the empty space in the skyline on the island's southern tip, where once the city's two tallest buildings stood side by side...