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...women on business, a trouble-free environment is key. "Female frequent travelers have concerns about their safety," says Michel Van der Hoeven, manager of Singapore's Gallery Evason. "They always ask to be close to the elevator, to reception." Gallery Evason was the first hotel in Asia to reserve a floor for women, served by female staff, when it opened this spring. Doubles start at $86; to reserve, call (65) 849-8686. Since then, the Novotel Atlantis in Shanghai's Pudong district has set aside its 43rd floor, under the name Club Femme. Doubles...
...Ollson, head of Asia for Best Western, says the world's biggest hotel chain has yet to find significant demand for female-only facilities. "It's not like women execs need bodyguards," he says. "I really don't think we want to spend money on this." But replies Van der Hoeven: "It's not about money. Look at any hotel. Look at the size of the robe, the slippers: they're based on males. At the end of the day, it's about good service...
...Furniture Fair in New York City in May. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs. It's not just in North America. He has been dubbed Der Poet des Plastiks by a retailer in Germany and the prolifico progettista Americano by Interni magazine in Italy...
...Publicly, the big dogs of European integration dismissed the Irish upset as no big deal. The French assembly quickly backed the Nice Treaty last week 407-27, with 113 abstentions. At a summit in Freiberg, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder pledged to work for Nice's ratification "according to the existing timetable and without any delay...
...muted, with Angela Merkel, the CDU leader, announcing a nuanced change to her party's outright opposition to immigration to allow a small number of temporary visas to help industry fill its job vacancies. But this is indeed a minor shift: when the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder appealed last month for a bipartisan consensus on immigration so that it won't become an issue in next year's parliamentary election, the CDU rejected the plea...