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...arts-and-crafts show that's now held every December and is a must-attend event for retailers and the local design trade. "If you want to see the next generation of Lanna artists and designers, you come here," declares Rachen Intawong, proprietor of the fashionable Nimmanhaemin boutique hotel, At Niman Conceptual Home. And if you want to know where to buy some of the street's coolest crafts, take a look at the list on the right. Just make sure there's plenty of slack in the credit card...
...audience. And what chance does a premiere by minimalist Taiwan master Hou Hsiao-hsien have when, that same morning, U.S. comedian Jerry Seinfeld is promoting his cartoon feature Bee Movie by dressing in a bee costume and flying, on guy wires, from the top of the Carlton Cannes Hotel across the town's oceanside boulevard to land on a pier jutting into the Mediterranean? "They tell me Scorsese did the same thing last year for The Departed," he quipped...
...Tourism Studies is grooming the next generation of workers to man the front desks, kitchens and boardrooms of this former Portuguese colony's booming leisure sector. But learning isn't restricted to the classroom: students also help run the Pousada de Mong-Há, www.ift.edu.mo, a 20-room hotel housed in old Portuguese army barracks. If you've had your fill of casino hotels, the Pousada-situated on a hill near the scenic ruins of a 19th century fort-is one of Macau's better-kept secrets. It's also affordable (spacious modern rooms go from around $65 a night...
...Litvinenko's murder drew a response that's increasingly familiar to Kremlin watchers: an abrupt no. There were some obvious reasons for Russian intransigence. The case is a skein of disputed plots and subplots. Lugovoi and one companion - or two, according to some versions - met Litvinenko at a London hotel on Nov. 1. Litvinenko died 22 days later from the invisible toxin apparently swallowed at that meeting. British investigators have tried to unpick the events, linking Lugovoi to a trail of particles shed by the polonium. Lugovoi denies blame, while Russia says its constitution prevents it from handing over...
...famously pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian President "barbaric and ruthless." Now British prosecutors have challenged Russia by requesting the extradition of ex--KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi in the murder--a request Russia promptly refused. Lugovoi, who denies any guilt, met with Litvinenko at a London hotel the day his tea was poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium...