Word: asia
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...level Rao seeks is global. Shangri-La has confined itself mainly to its home turf of Asia, where it is a well-known brand. But now Rao, a former accountant who became CEO in August, sees opportunity in crisis. He is undertaking a wide-ranging expansion that will take Shangri-La hotels to markets as diverse as Las Vegas and Doha. In January, the company launched its first Shangri-La hotel in North America, with the opening of a 119-room property in Vancouver. Japan will see its first open in March in Tokyo, and Europe later this year...
...steamed pampering. It lies at the intersection of stress management, fine dining, and salon services: at a shabu-shabu restaurant a facial comes rolled up, or rather, bubbling out of, your Japanese hot pot dinner. ABOUT A HOT POTThe hot pot meal is a comfort food tradition widespread throughout Asia, though shabu-shabu specifically refers to the Japanese version. The basic rubric includes a steaming pot of broth (usually beef, chicken, or miso) kept boiling over a tabletop electric burner in which one drops vegetables, followed by raw pieces of top sirloin beef, chicken, tofu, or, less traditionally, seafood...
...other anti-U.S. strongmen out there, from North Korea to Iran, with whom Obama believes he should grit his teeth and engage in the interest of U.S. security. To avoid doing in Latin America what he deems sensible in the Middle East and Asia would repeat Washington's careless habit of treating the continent in ways that helped give rise to the Castros and Chávezes in the first place. The best way to disarm Chávez is to give him fewer "imperialist" targets to rail at. As the anti-Bush, Obama has an advantage in that...
Scarcely 100 miles from the Pakistani capital, Taliban forces loyal to jihadist preacher (and former chairlift operator) Maulana Fazlullah have brutally advanced across Swat - a region once known as the "Switzerland of Asia" - capturing more than four-fifths of the plush valley. Once a choice destination for honeymooners, Swat has over the past two years seen more than 1,500 people killed, close to 200 schools destroyed and girls' education banned, scores of beheadings and kidnappings, and more than 100,000 people driven from their homes. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...These days Barmak spends more time courting financiers than dodging rockets. Making movies in Afghanistan is expensive, and there is no local market to speak of. Instead he relies on foreign distribution - Opium War will be screening in some 15 cities across Asia and Europe this spring, largely based on his success last fall at the Rome International Film Festival, where Opium War won the critics' award for best film. He hopes for more success - and jokes about the remote possibility of failure. "If I can't make it as a director," he says, "at least I now know...