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Late last year, three world-renowned wine experts gathered in a nondescript, windowless room at Changi Airport in Singapore. For two days, they methodically worked their way through some 400 unmarked bottles of Champagne, Chardonnay, Cabernet and Merlot from around the world, pausing only to record scores on a 20-point scale. The test was one that required not only a trained palate but also a certain imagination. The judges had already sampled wines in a pressurized room that replicates the taste-deadening conditions at 30,000 ft., so they knew to choose softer, fruitier wines. After six bottles...
...accounts does it dictate the airline's strategy, the government aids SIA in many ways. Tax breaks on the carrier's aircraft help SIA maintain one of the youngest fleets of any major airline. The government helpfully paid the multibillion-dollar construction cost of Singapore's impressive Changi Airport, the airline's hub since 1981 and one of the best airports in the world...
...Kisho Kurokawa, the innovative Japanese architect who designed Kuala Lumpur's terminal with flowing buttresses reminiscent of desert tents, points out that Arabic sources of design harmony were more important to him than Asian ones. While Singapore's top-rated Changi Airport is praised by Malaysian feng shui guru Joey Yap for entry roads and fronting lawns that properly gather up pools of surrounding qi, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore states categorically that it "does not take feng shui into account" in airport designs...
...HANGED. NGUYEN TUONG VAN, 25, an Australian convicted of attempting to smuggle 400 g of heroin to Melbourne; in Singapore. Nguyen picked up the heroin in Cambodia and was caught in transit at Singapore's Changi Airport. Australian officials lobbied unsuccessfully to stop his execution. Singapore rejected Nguyen's request to have a final hug with family members, but allowed his mother to hold his hand and touch his face and hair the day before he was hanged. Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock called the execution a "barbaric...
...Idris, a forensic expert at Jakarta's University of Indonesia/Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, is anything above 200 mg. Friends and family reject the idea that Munir might have committed suicide. According to Jakarta-based Tempo magazine, Munir sent an SMS to his wife Suciwati from Singapore's Changi Airport that read: "I really can't make this out. How come my tummy is so upset? I really hope it isn't playing up again." (Munir suffered from ulcers.) Hakim says that on the flight out of Singapore, Munir was convinced he had food poisoning. His family wonders how the poison could...