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...contains an original chair - created by notables like Philippe Starck and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec - which the hotel's Hungarian designers used as inspiration to produce artwork unique to each room. A curvaceous white Verner Panton chair, for instance, became the bride that inspired a wall panel on marriage. "Every corner has another story to tell," says Zsuzsa Szkurka, the hotel's director...
...criticism of the economic stimulus program which comes from almost every corner of the political, economic, and business worlds is that the plan for creating jobs by building infrastructure may take too long...
...Fuxing Road in western Beijing is a vast Soviet-style building that proudly houses jets, tanks and ships - all memorials to the military conflicts faced by the People's Republic of China. But just around the corner, in a typical middleclass housing complex, is an unwelcome reminder of how the country manages its political conflicts...
...paint itself into this uncomfortable corner? "The BBC is completely obsessed with impartiality when it comes to the Middle East because it's on the receiving end of particularly vigorous lobbying by both sides," says a former senior journalist for the BBC. "Staff are made to take modules [seminars] on use of language and how to give balance. From this perspective, it's easy to understand the mind-set. It's just that they seem to have lost touch with the real world and put their editorial values ahead of trying to save lives...
Tucked into a former laundry room in a softly lit corner of Singapore's Regent Hotel, Iggy's doesn't exude the flash one would expect of the "Best Restaurant in Asia." But that is precisely the accolade bestowed upon it by the Miele Guide - a recently launched work of reference that aspires to be to Asia what the Michelin is to Europe. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...