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...feels he has the financial muscle to absorb the shock of the slowdown. He remains bullish on the prospects for Asia, and particularly for China, where Shangri-La already has 27 hotels including entries in up-and-coming cities like Wuhan and Dalian, where business has been holding up better than in major metropolitan areas like Beijing and Shanghai. "We do still see medium- to long-term opportunities for growth for all the areas we are getting into," Rao says. "We are in this for the long haul...
...Handelsblad's lost generation of rich young readers. At one euro, the skinny NRC Next is only two-thirds the price of Handelsblad, but it looks and feels way cooler - the paper it's printed on, for instance, is slightly heavier. "Readers have got to feel that this is better than Holland's four free dailies - better even than Handelsblad - or this isn't going to work," says Nijenhuis...
...British lost the battle to stabilize Basra and spent four years dealing with an increasingly chaotic province. Things changed for the better only after March 2008, when local units of the Iraqi army - trained by the Brits and in control of the region from September 2007 - launched an operation to disperse the militias. Now violence has been replaced by an uneasy calm, and with Britain preparing to withdraw all but a small rump of its 4,100 troops by May 31, Basra is daring to dream of peace. (See pictures of Basra back in business...
When Mahmoud voted in the regional elections in January, she opted for candidates she felt could offer "sustained security, jobs for young people and a better Iraq." Voting went off without violence in Basra (the only incident came when an overenthusiastic Iraqi policeman fired a gun into the air to encourage voters into a polling station). The bloc affiliated with Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, benefited from his action against the militias. In Basra, messages of national unity played better than did religious or sectarian appeals. "We have a new breed of politicians who can take Basra into...
...represent have generally written more critically of business--and sometimes their own clients--than most paid publications. There are hundreds of other examples in which the advertising-only model has produced hard-hitting journalism. The bottom line for all news media is the same regardless of model: you'd better produce content that people pay attention to, or you aren't going to have a business. Richard Karpel, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, WASHINGTON...