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...rudimentary health retreats have little in common with the luxurious, pampering spa resorts that sprang up across Asia in the late 1990s. Like other Gulf of Thailand getaways, many were once the preserve of the pierced and tattooed classes. But as onetime travelers swapped backpacks for briefcases and Koh Samui opened an airport, the resorts found themselves swamped with stressed-out executives in need of a little spiritual care...
...meditation courses led by resident monks and visiting teachers. The $28 fee covers food and lodging. Meditators sit for a series of 30-minute sessions, listen to talks, chant and relax in nearby hot springs. Find more details at suanmokkh.org. An hour from Samui by boat is Koh Phangan, home of legendary Full Moon parties and the austere Wat Kow Tahm meditation center. Rosemary and Steve Weissman's retreats, which last for anywhere from 10 days to three months ($83 for 10 days), are not for the daydreamer. Talking, reading, writing and even sign language are banned. Click onto watkowtahm.org...
...Who’s ever heard of an Indian movie star?” countered blockmate Joyce M. Koh...
...money from the Net in low-income China is even harder than in the developed world, and no amount of ambition or chauvinism can mask red ink on the bottom line. "People thought there would be one or two local players who would make it in China," says Jasmine Koh, regional Internet analyst for UBS Warburg in Hong Kong. "Now it's shifting to be a global game." That means opportunities for the likes of AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft MSN Online and Lycos Asia, which reportedly spent $12.8 million to buy myrice.com, a Hong Kong-based community portal aimed at Chinese...
...with heavy machine guns and mortars and other explosives, the two magnificent statues of Buddha, 125 feet and 175 feet tall, that have stood for centuries in Bamiyan, an oasis town on the Old Silk Road, in a long valley separating the chain of the Hindu Kush from the Koh-i-baba range...