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...Southern India and Sri Lanka: Posh travel company Abercrombie & Kent would like the pleasure of your company on a visit to Cochin, Goa, Panjim, Malvan and Mumbai on a Hebridean Island Cruises boat for 16 nights (departs Dec. 18). A representative for A&K says that the vessel feels more like a "floating five-star country-house hotel" than a cruise ship. From $8,785 to $16,993 for a two-person cabin. tel: (44-0845) 0700 606; www.abercrombiekent.co.uk...
...experts question whether governments can or should stop private firms from moving jobs to gain competitive advantage. So far, Europe's biggest job-shifters have been in Britain. Last month, the big insurer Aviva announced it is moving 950 back-office and processing jobs to India and Sri Lanka next year - and laying off 150 workers in Britain as a result. That follows similar announcements over the past year by British financial firms HSBC, Lloyds TSB and Barclays, among others. Others are trying to catch up. A study carried out last June by German consulting firm Roland Berger polled...
...complemented by walks through bamboo forests to isolated villages and temples, two nights on the Ayeyarwady River on a luxurious riverboat, and a hot-air balloon ride over the golden temples of Bagan. $5,595 per person, $850 supplement. tel: (1-800) 678 1147; www.butterfield.com Southern India and Sri Lanka: Posh travel company Abercrombie & Kent would like the pleasure of your company on a visit to Cochin, Goa, Panjim, Malvan and Mumbai on a Hebridean Island Cruises boat for 16 nights (departs Dec. 18). A representative for A&K says that the vessel feels more like a "floating five-star...
...Still, the bitterness and despair engendered by the five year crackdown have seen Islamist influence grow. This is manifested in the emergence of suicide bombers, although the Chechens depart from conventional Qaeda practice by using women in this role - a habit learned, perhaps, from the secular nationalists of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, the movement that claims authorship of suicide bombing as a terror weapon. Simultaneous attacks on two airliners, of course, is another Qaeda operational signature...