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...group's past acts of sabotage became an embarrassment in the post-9/11 era. Chanh left the movement last year to head the United States International Mission, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of human trafficking. But if South Korea decides to extradite him, his past may land him in a Vietnamese jail...
...Land prices in some of Pattaya's beachfront areas have jumped 50% in the past two years, largely in anticipation of a visitor boom. "The airport is going to bring Pattaya more tourism and investment," says Soamaphat Traisorat, deputy CEO of Bangkok-based developer TCC Capital Land, which is building luxury villas and condos by Jomtien Beach, 5 km from downtown. "If someone wants to hold a conference or a business meeting in Thailand, they'll be able to do it in Pattaya just as easily as in Bangkok, and they'll get to be on the beach...
...terms with a new, shocking world in which other nations are more powerful and technologically advanced. As the dominant player in that story for more than half a century, the U.S. occupies a unique place in the Chinese imagination. To immigrants and students, it is the "Gold Mountain" - a land that, ever since the gold rush in 19th century California, has epitomized the promise of wealth, progress and modernity. The flip side is the global "bully" with which China first clashed in the Korean War, and that to many Chinese still seems intent on preventing their country from rising...
...ever with things Chinese, the weight of history hangs heavily over the Sino-American relationship. When officials of the Qing Empire began visiting America in the 1860s, some kept diaries that expressed what now seem like eerily familiar opinions. In their book Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present, historians R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee write that during the first period of interaction, from 1841 to around 1900, China's view of the U.S. was a mixture of wonder and fear. Woken from torpid indifference to the outside world...
...British Land made Swann the first woman director at the 150-year-old company. It is one of Britain's largest property-investment firms, with holdings such as London's Broadgate offices and 43 Sainsbury's superstores. Swann, CEO of WH Smith, Britain's largest magazine and book retailer, brings valuable retail expertise. She is winning kudos for turning around WH Smith, which was headed for major losses when she took over in late 2003. "Kate Swann, who has the CEO experience that boards want and is a woman, is a very attractive candidate," said Constance Bagley, an expert...