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...billion tons of greenhouse gases, according to a Greenpeace report. Indonesia is the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind the U.S. and China, says the World Bank. "We liken what's going on [in Indonesia] to pouring petrol on a fire," says Martin Baker, a Hong Kong-based communications officer for Greenpeace International. "It's completely ridiculous to produce green fuels from places like this...
What those foreigners are missing is that French culture is surprisingly lively. Its movies are getting more imaginative and accessible. Just look at the Taxi films of Luc Besson and Gérard Krawczyk, a rollicking series of Hong Kong-style action comedies; or at such intelligent yet crowd-pleasing works as Cédric Klapisch's L'Auberge Espagnole and Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped, both hits on the foreign art-house circuit. French novelists are focusing increasingly on the here and now: one of the big books of this year's literary rentr...
...Atlantide is the name of the newest high-jewelry collection to emerge from the Place Vendôme ateliers of Van Cleef & Arpels. The jewelry, which will be introduced at a private dinner in Hong Kong this month and then flown immediately to New York City, includes pieces reminiscent of the mythical island and its lost civilization. Underwater icons such as fish (below), shells and the waves of the sea are recurring themes. One magnificent ring features a 59-carat pearl with baroque diamonds splashing around...
...HONG KONG Statement pieces like Van Cleef & Arpels' Hawaii ring ($20,600) are what clients want...
...calculus, it is often surprising who comes out ahead. According to the Business Competitive Index, the Global Competitive Index's sibling measure developed by Harvard economist Michael Porter, the countries with the lowest wages relative to competitiveness - that is, the best values as investment locations - are Taiwan, Hong Kong and India, followed by Chile, Singapore, the Czech Republic...