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...beyond. Its big businesses are buying land and building hotels along Georgia's posh Black Sea coast and in Moscow, purchasing big banks and companies in Siberia, and investing in the telecommunications network of Nepal. Kazakhstan is the only country in Central Asia that attracts rather than supplies guest workers. "Kazakhs don't work in other countries' markets as vendors," proudly comments Zhenis Kasenov, an Astana dweller. "Kazakhs come there as buyers." Oil wealth, however, often brings corruption in its wake, and for three years the country has been embroiled in "Kazakhgate." In March 2003, in the most far-reaching...
While the bedbug—known by scientists as Cimex lectularius—is not charged with the transmission of any diseases, it is hardly a polite guest. Victims of bedbug bites have reported symptoms ranging from the relatively pedestrian (itchy, red spots) to the far more frightening (sickly sweet odors, sheets speckled with blood in the morning). And while finding and killing the culprits can be difficult, keeping them down can be even worse...
...southern France, not a slice of southern China. Complete with manicured lawns, shuttered windows, carriage lamps and oil paintings, the reservation-only Restaurant 131 has become one of Hong Kong's most sought-after dinner venues. Actor Jackie Chan has been known to book the whole restaurant, and the guest book reads like a Hong Kong Who's Who. This is not simply a result of its intimate ambience (with room for no more than a dozen or so, an evening there has the air of a private party). It's also due to its sequestered location on Tolo Harbour...
...THIS CHAIR IS JUST RIGHT Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie kicks off a p.r. tour in support of his not-especially-tell-all memoir, Winning Right. The launch- party guest list includes Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman--whose own book, What a Party, is due to be released in January. That book's tell-all proportions are unknown, but attendees overhear McAuliffe boasting that his book is "much thicker...
...southern France, not a slice of southern China. Complete with manicured lawns, shuttered windows, carriage lamps and oil paintings, the reservation-only Restaurant 131 has become one of Hong Kong's most sought-after dinner venues. Actor Jackie Chan has been known to book the whole restaurant, and the guest book reads like a Hong Kong Who's Who. This is not simply a result of its intimate ambience (with room for no more than a dozen or so, an evening there has the air of a private party). It's also due to its sequestered location on Tolo Harbour...