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...report. It estimates the international trade in "looted, stolen or smuggled art" at $4.5 billion to $6 billion a year. In p.n.g., says museum director Eoe, the trade in illegal artifacts is probably "a multi-million-dollar business, but we don't really have any idea of the true extent...
...girls - almost certainly naked - cavorted in the surf. It's thought that the missionaries convinced the chiefs that fanifo was corrupting Tongan youth and didn't belong in a budding Christian society, and that the chiefs placed on the sport a tapu, or ban. "This is, to some extent, speculation," says Po'oi Puloka, secretary general of the Tonga Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (tasanoc), "but it's more than likely what happened." (The banning of a sport has a more recent precedent in Tonga. In the 1920s authorities prohibited the playing of cricket, which had so gripped...
...extent that she does. I?m very lucky that most of my time is absolutely my own. The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. You can drift around and go and work at a coffee shop if you like. But occasionally, things get very hectic when I?m having to do promotions and do interviews and go traveling and that kind of thing. And I have two children, and another on the way. All boys...
...clean up India's 26 World Heritage Sites and exploit their business potential so that they pay for themselves. Tourism Joint Secretary Amitabh Kant is perhaps the only person in India more outspoken than Thakur about heritage. "Encroachments have been terrible," he says. "Upkeep is awful." To a great extent, he blames Indian officials for what he calls a "total lack of civic governance and discipline." In a plan that delights Thakur, Kant says all shops, hotels and stalls built on historic sites will be demolished and their successors kept at least 3 km away, a process he has started...
...misunderstanding about this. The only thing we needed permission from the government for was to take such a sizable amount of money out of the country [to finance the deal]. That's all. We received that permission from the appropriate financial authorities, and that's been the extent of government involvement...