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With their gorgeous traditional naxi clay roofs and stone courtyards, the 55 villas at the banyan tree resort, banyantree.com, have become the ne plus ultra of accommodation in mountainous Lijiang, a historic southwestern Chinese town and designated World Heritage Site.[an error occurred while processing this directive] Red lacquered woods and heated private plunge pools are among the highlights of these expansive, 350-sq-m houses, pictured above, and all have unobstructed views of Himalayan peaks and grazing buffalo...
...anyone who has drunk seriously with Japanese, Indian, South Korean or Taiwanese executives can aver, whisky doesn't merely enjoy a healthy market across large swathes of Asia - it boasts armies[an error occurred while processing this directive] of well-informed connoisseurs. Head south, however, and aficionados are thinner on the ground. The Islamic countries of Malaysia and Indonesia are hardly big-drinking nations (and when they do imbibe, the preferred drinks tend to be brandy and beer, respectively). Singapore, where average per capita alcohol consumption barely notches three liters a year, is not that much different...
Fourteen years after Princess Diana's good friend James Gilbey committed the lèse majesté of referring to Her Royal Highness as "Squidgy" in a bugged phone conversation, the British royal family has again fallen victim to a wiretapping scandal. Last week, London's Metropolitan Police [an error occurred while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According...
...boss's business if you have a cigarette after dinner? After an Irish job ad stipulated that "smokers need not apply," that [an error occurred while processing this directive] question was put to the European Commission, which decided that employers refusing to hire smokers do not breach European antidiscrimination laws. "The Commission can legislate on age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, race and gender," says Commission spokesperson Katharina von Schnurbein. "For all other areas, it's the member state's responsibility." Critics fumed that though some countries, such as France and Belgium, have laws requiring employers to hire on qualifications alone...
Stifling heat, sunburn - to the peculiar pleasures of Spain's beaches in August, add the sting of the jellyfish. In the last [an error occurred while processing this directive]couple of weeks, fleets of bloblike Pelagia noctiluca have reached beaches from Barcelona to Málaga. In Catalonia alone, the Red Cross has treated 14,044 bathers for the painful stings. Local governments in Benidorm and elsewhere have posted signs in three languages warning of the dangers. The Interior Ministry has publicized advice for those who are stung - wash the affected area with salt water, don't rub it, seek...