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Regardless of theme, each room is a riot of color and a welcome alternative to more staid boutique hotel competitors. Catering to well-heeled fashionistas, the hotel welcomes "little pets" like chihuahuas, and the three-night vip Shopping Package comes with 15% discounts on top-end labels such as Jean-Paul Gaultier and Lancel...
...Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In his separation of mosque and state, they finally found freedom from discrimination. But that eroded under subsequent governments, often violently. As recently as 1993, a group of 33 prominent Alevi poets, writers and musicians were burned to death by a fundamentalist Sunni mob in a hotel in eastern Turkey...
...other foreign businessmen living in Hong Kong. Instead, all that longstanding China travelers like Weckherlin are being granted are visas with paltry two-day durations and permits to visit only one city or province at a time. Even then, applicants are being forced to proffer both return tickets and hotel vouchers, a new requirement that makes planning for contingencies or traveling on the fly virtually impossible. Hong Kong's many foreign Chambers of Commerce have lodged complaints with the Chinese Foreign Ministry office in the city, but no clear explanation has yet to be given for the restrictions...
...property taxes for every $1,000 worth of residential property they owned, and $17.24 for every $1,000 worth of commercial property. Healy said that the city was trying to offset some of the new costs with surplus funds from past years and from the city’s hotel and motel tax. The finance committee will hold at least two more hearings to discuss specific segments of the budget before voting on it on May 19. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
...Somali and foreign radical militants that had been established by Osama bin Laden in remote swamps in the southeast of the country. It was this group that Washington blames for the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and for the 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, as well as several other attempted atrocities...