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...Investors' newfound interest in north Vietnam can't be explained just by simplified commercial procedures. The north has a number of advantages over the south, including lower wages, cheaper real estate and a nearby port that is less clogged than Saigon's. Sumitomo, the Japanese real estate giant, first looked to the south when it was planning to build a Vietnamese industrial park in 1997. But after comparing Saigon's infrastructure and labor costs, the developers chose Hanoi instead, and the gamble paid off. The first two phases of Sumitomo's 300-hectare Thang Long industrial park in Hanoi sold...
...Lodge offers visitors a front-row seat at one of nature's greatest shows: the world's oldest continuously surviving rain forest. Dusk on any of Daintree's screened-in balconies is a noisy delight as an invisible chorus of birds, frogs and insects serenades nightfall from the giant vine-draped ylang-ylang trees...
Vogel agreed, pointing to China’s recent offer of a giant panda to Taiwan as an example of its efforts to be liked by its neighbors...
...timely expose in the October 19th issue of Fifteen Minutes took us one tick closer to solving the mystery of the giant old green clock in Harvard Square outside Bank of America. The timepiece was inexplicably stuck—seemingly permanently—at 12:16. Now FM returns with a hard-hitting follow-up investigation. The clock, of which neither Bank of America nor Cambridge nor Harvard will claim ownership, now reads 10:15. What is the significance of the clock’s nine-hour and fifty-nine minute great leap forward to the future? Or rather...
...alien life. “About half [the people we talk to] think we’re looking for UFOs, and I try to dispel that notion,” says Andrew W. Howard, a graduate student working on the project. So they’re not searching for giant saucers in the sky or some Twilight Zone-style phenomena. Instead, they’re hoping to identify extraterrestrial communication, in the form of light flashes from distant civilizations. But don’t look for ET and his friends to phone home any time soon. Bruce Betts, director...