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...study’s lead author Andrew P. Wilper said the goal of the study was to investigate “what’s going on in the place people go as a last resort for care...
...should not resort to violence even if we have differences.' MAUMOON GAYOOM, President of the Maldives, after an attempt to assassinate him was foiled when a boy scout waiting to greet the island nation's leader grabbed the attacker's knife as he lunged out of a crowd...
Outside the compulsively groomed resort areas, garbage grows in small piles on the side of streets on the island's growing urban areas, festering in the tropical sun. Much of what is collected finds its way to the TPA Suwung landfill, about 10 km outside the sprawling provincial capital of Denpasar. Every day trucks add up to 800 metric tons of waste to quivering piles of tattered cloth, leftover food and the ubiquitous plastic water bottles. Virtually the only waste management at Suwung comes in the form of scavengers who brave the heat to comb through the mountains of trash...
...hole golf course and a five-star hotel with a spa and top-class restaurants. You want, in other words, Corniche Bay, a development of 115 such villas and a 75-bedroom hotel on the secluded southwestern tip of Mauritius. It's one of a few high-end resorts on the island that, for the first time, allow nonresident foreigners to buy property. Each villa has its own uninterrupted sea view angled toward the sunset, an infinity pool and a lush, landscaped garden. The resort is huge, mostly car-free and backed by spectacular volcanic peaks. Sales open...
...Corniche Bay will, over the course of an average working life, save in tax what they paid in the first place. Effectively, the villa is free, while the owner can even earn extra cash by renting it out. And what did the Mauritian government name its brainwave? The Integrated Resort Scheme - or irs. It's enough to make the tax man see green. www.cornichebay...