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...based developer Starwood's internationally known St. Regis line of upscale properties, these 173 luxury flats sold out quickly at record prices after hitting the market last June. When the St. Regis and its sister hotel, located next door, are completed in 2008, they'll rise over an upgraded Orchard Road, Singapore's main shopping district
...silence smoking in the garden of a small mosque that had been requisitioned by the army as a fighting position. From the back of the mosque the smoking ruins of the camp's first buildings lay only 200 yards away on the other side of a dense orchard of orange trees...
...India's high-tech heart, but in one part of its leafy suburbs, there's a group of environmentalists trying to get back to the garden. In 2003, husband-and-wife architects Jeeth and Natasha Iype, working with Stanley George, a civil engineer, designed the Good Earth Orchard homes. Each of the 60 projected houses, now in various stages of construction, will feature slate and wood left in a natural state, without toxic waxes and finishes. Sewage will be treated in tanks that process waste without harmful chemicals. Household water will be heated by solar panels, which is expected...
...insisting that they go on a particular day. His insistence caused Park to become suspicious, and she asked him “point-blank” if he was planning to propose that day. He writes in an e-mail that he denied it, but upon getting to the orchard and finding a private area, he did just what she had guessed. “After getting over my nerves, I faked as though I was picking a low-hanging apple, only to end up on one knee and ask Jeanette if she’d marry...
Among the highlights of the Grand Hyatt Singapore's recently completed renovations are three superchic presidential suites, adding to the choice of top-end berths in the Lion City. Perched high above the throngs of Orchard Road, these palatial aeries can be expanded from one to four bedrooms if you're traveling with an entourage of, say, cabinet ministers, groupies or bodyguards...