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...displays, the handshake is once again the business greeting of choice, and restaurants and bars don't look like furniture showrooms anymore. "Everything seems a bit rosier now," says Jonathan Zeman, COO of Lan Kwai Fong Holdings, owner of many trendy bars, restaurants and serviced apartments catering to the expat community in the city center. "We are seeing a lot more business travelers at our places." That includes those on the steep stone streets of the lively Lan Kwai Fong district, a must-stop for visitors before the epidemic...
...Crawling (thatsbeijing.com) Called to the Bar Pulled from the pages of the expat monthly, this site has the most complete listings and cheeky reviews of Beijing's bars. The index is under the homepage's events directory, where you'll find descriptions of 179 drinking holes...
...books that the Nazis deemed to be politically incorrect. Perhaps the reminder of those awful times will renew your appreciation for the book fair and its bustle of activity. Come night, you can join the book-fair partyers at one of Frankfurt's best clubs, Oneninetyeast (www.190east.de), where American-expat, house-legend Joe Jam will be scratching, or head to the King Kamehameha club for a cocktail. When you're hungry, have some local onion-topped Handkäs mit Musik cheese with onions and an oil-and-vinegar dressing, or simply some frankfurters. However you spend your time...
...leisure travelers, they are few and far between, and generally fall into the expat weekend-getaway category: the couple deserting SARS-afflicted Hong Kong for a spa weekend in Bali, a lonely bachelor checking out of a subdued Singapore for a Bangkok party break. "Intraregional travel is leading the pack," says Kodowlski "because places aren't so far from home. People are closer to the reality of SARS; they see behind the media hype...
...Scott Schlageter, 35, an American procurement manager for the Saudi air force, it was just another expat's night in Riyadh. He was watching an Antonio Banderas thriller, curled up on the sofa in his home in al-Jadawel, a gated town-house complex in the Saudi Arabian capital. Suddenly the lights died, and the TV zapped off. Schlageter saw a flash and felt a thundering explosion that blew out all his windows. "I grabbed my cell phone, went upstairs to a secure room, called the U.S. embassy and told them we were under attack," he says. A vehicle loaded...