Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts manages a hotel in Chongqing TravelDailyNews | Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, recently signed an agreement with Chongqing Guest House Co. Ltd. to manage a hotel in Chongqing that is scheduled to open in late 2011. The 469-room Shangri-La hotel will occupy the first 28 floors of a new 58-storey landmar...
Polanski, Scorsese Films to Debut at Berlin Festival Syracuse | (AP) - c ()-2010, Bloomberg News | BERLIN-Roman Polanski, holed up in his Swiss ski chalet and facing possible extradition to the United States on a 30- year-old child-abuse case, is a notable absentee from this year's Berlin Film Festival, where his new film is showing. | "The Ghost Writer," comp...
Tracing our roads and the bumps along the way The Boston Globe | Roads bring us together. They shape where we live, and how we interact with each other. Choices are forks, decisions are paths. Robert Frost tells us this, and so does Bob Seger. | But "not all connections are good,'' warns Ted Conover in "The Rout...
Taiwan's young malt a surprise whisky winner The Boston Globe | ILAN, Taiwan-There are palm groves here, not heather on the heath, but that hasn't stopped a company in northeastern Taiwan from trying to produce a whisky that can compete with Scottish brands. | Executives at beverage maker King Car Food Industri...
Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts manages a hotel in Chongqing TravelDailyNews | Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific's leading luxury hotel group, recently signed an agreement with Chongqing Guest House Co. Ltd. to manage a hotel in Chongqing that is scheduled to open in late 2011. The 469-room Shangri-La hotel will occ...
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Hacking into the mind of the CRU climate change hacker The Guardian | Analysis suggests the hacker was in east coast of America and operated over a number of days, but much remains unknown | Hacker in staged photograph surrounded by computers. Phot...
Spare Times: For Children The New York Times | FOR CHILDREN | 'ADVENTURES WITH DORA AND DIEGO' (Friday through Sunday, and Tuesday through Thursday) The young Latino stars of the Nickelodeon animated television series "Dora t...
Make peace, not war The Star | Jackie Chan uses war flick Little Big Soldier to propagate peace. | skyseto@thestar.com.my | JACKIE Chan may be best known as an international action star, yet the man prefers to...
Former Boeing engineer gets 15 years in China spy case USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the U....
Chinese author Liao Yiwu seeks Merkel support on travel ban m&c | Frankfurt - A blacklisted author who has graphically described the lives of underdogs in China has appealed to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to oppose Beijing's ban on him travelling abroad, a publisher said in Frankfurt on Monday. | Liao Yiwu...
Taiwan's young malt a surprise whiskey winner The Boston Globe | ILAN, Taiwan-Loch Sun Moon Lake? Silk brocade kilts with bamboo inlaid sporrans? | No, Scotland hasn't removed itself to this subtropical Asian island, at least not yet. | But in the northeastern town of Ilan, where palm groves are much more common...
Iran starts work on higher-grade nuclear fuel The Independent | Iran began work on today to make higher-grade nuclear fuel, a senior official said, and the Pentagon said the United States wanted a UN Security Council resolution on Iran "within weeks" over its nuclear programme. | The Islamic Republic, which denies its programme has military aims, announced on Sunday it would produce uranium enriched to a leve...
Some are buying extra train tickets and reselling them to earn money China Daily | SHANGHAI: Some Shanghai office workers and college students are making money by reselling extra railway tickets they bought during the ongoing Spring Festival travel season, a time when billions of Chinese crisscross the country to enjoy the big day with their families. | According to a regulation created by railway authorities to stop scalpers, ...
