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...salt-baked lamb is a comfort-food classic), served in highly original settings. The latter constitute a distinctive selling point in a country where smart restaurants are more likely to be found in the contrived spaces of soaring hotels or office-block podiums. "When I first arrived in Asia," she explains, "I was in Hong Kong and got into a lift to go up to a restaurant on the seventh floor, where we were greeted by 20 Chinese guys saying 'Ciao' and singing 'O Sole Mio.' I thought, 'This is crazy.' A restaurant has to have some soul. The whole...
...deposits - have emerged from the financial crisis in better shape than their badly bruised neighbor. The gulf region is poised not only to recover from the global slump this year, but could become the second most important center of world economic growth after the economies of east and south Asia, according to John Sfakianakis, chief economist for Banque Saudi Fransi in Riyadh and Crédit Agricole in Paris. "The world has always been too focused on Dubai, but Dubai is not the GCC," he says, referring to the Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose political and economic union of gulf...
...amounts transferred, is needed to root out the various terrorist organizations that move funds around the world. In 2003, officials say the program helped Thai authorities capture Riduan Isamuddin, also known by the name Hambali, who was the suspected leader of the al-Qaeda terror network in Southeast Asia. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...Arabic): Musical instrument of Southwest Asia and North Africa resembling a mandolin
...UNICEF, the U.N. Children's Fund, de la Soudiere recently initiated a campaign to register Haitian youths, who were among the world's most vulnerable to trafficking even before the quake. The registry will be much like the one crafted in the wake of the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia in 2004, but its purpose is more far-reaching than reuniting lost kids with relatives. The Haiti list, begun about two weeks ago, is also designed to prevent children from being dumped into the country's scores of loosely monitored orphanages, many of which have long been sources of child...