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...island's image, with boutique properties popping up wherever you cast your sunglassed gaze. Leading the charge is Sanctuary Resorts, the Hong Kong-based, eco-conscious developer, which recently opened two facilities in the area. Just an hour's drive on the mainland from Phuket airport lies Khao Lak, better known among divers as the jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff are clad in black, as is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start at around $85 a night...
...tide has turned is palpable not just in the cities but in the countryside as well, where farmers were particularly hard hit by the '97 crisis. Indeed, Thaksin's greatest success so far may be reviving the debt-laden rural economies. In the farming town of Bahn Rong Kong Khao, near the city of Chiang Mai in the country's north, the government's $2.3 billion Village Fund program, a microlending scheme, is a mini miracle, say residents. Narong Fongkraew, 50, who grows rice and chilies on his small farm, credits the Village Fund with saving not just his farm...
...government, villages like Bahn Rong Kong Khao are proof that its policies of driving growth from the grass roots are working. "By giving [the poor] access to capital, we have given them the chance to show that they are capable of imagination and expansion," says Chakramon Phasukvanich, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Board, a governmental planning agency. Finance Minister Suchart Jaovisidha says concerns that loans to farmers would load the sector with even more debt have proved unwarranted: "It's been very successful. About 97% of loans have been paid back. It's much better than...
...November, when suicide bombers struck a Mombasa hotel frequented by Israelis, killing 13 people, and two shoulder-launched missiles were fired at an Israeli plane nearby. The Kenyan attacks may presage more to come: Lillie said he did surveillance on two Israeli-owned businesses on or near Bangkok's Khao San Street, the region's most famous backpacker district, as well as on the ticket counter and airplanes of Israeli carrier El Al at the city's airport. Hambali scouted the Israeli embassy and a synagogue in Manila. "The prisoner mentioned that Jewish targets were always the main priority," reads...
...Thailand Bangkok Songkran Festival [April 13-15] Thailand erupts in a frenzied water fight during this ritualistic festival, with locals, tourists and even the police using everything from buckets to high-powered water guns to wage battle. Khao San road, Bangkok's backpacker nexus, is the battleground of choice. For more info, visit thailandgrandfestival.com