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...Beautiful Holidays, Penang Marketed to Europeans through the Internet, Beautiful Holidays (beautiful-holidays.com) is a tour company providing plastic-surgery packages in conjunction with the Loh Guan Lye Centre, a 25-year-old private hospital in Penang. The most popularly requested operations: liposuction and tummy tucks. "Our customers enjoy the anonymity," says Marloes Giezenaar, Beautiful Holidays' managing director. "They fly in, recuperate around the pool, and fly out again without anyone noticing they've been under the knife." The company can also arrange postsurgery tours of Penang...
...risk of contracting SARS. Airlines are slashing flights to the city as travelers stay away. Hong Kong businessmen were even barred from attending a major watch-and-luxury goods trade fair in Basel, Switzerland, unless they submitted to intrusive health checks, sparking a diplomatic row. Says Christine Loh, a former Hong Kong legislator who now runs Civic Exchange, a political think tank: "The importance of getting it right in terms of Hong Kong's image is critical, and this is where we've been messing...
...need to plan with people in mind and we need to involve those people in the planning process,” Loh said...
Gentrification and potential displacement of residents should also be concerns in the urban ring discussion, said Penn Loh, a Roxbury-based environmental justice advocate...
...existence of these places as long as the patrons behave. If the laws are still weighted against them, gays reason that the government has its compulsions. "Singapore is an island nation surrounded by Muslim states. It would be too provocative to repeal any anti-gay laws now," explains Addie Loh, one of Taboo's owners. Loh won't allow the nightclub to be photographed. "Tall poppies get their heads chopped off," he says, philosophically. "The government has been very kind to us. I don't think we should breach that tolerance...