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...that kind of person. He will work in a very collegial way with Malaysia and Singapore and others, as he does with us. We're very happy with the renewed higher profile of Indonesia because they were very supportive of us getting to the East Asia summit (in Kuala Lumpur in December...
...Kuala Lumpur and "cool hotels" are not often mentioned in the same breath, but the reopening of the eight-year-old Hotel Maya, after a $10 million makeover, may change that. The hotel is in the busy heart of the Malaysian capital, but top local architect Sonny Chan?a specialist in tropical architecture?has managed to give it the air of a chic, beachfront getaway. Earth tones and black and white predominate, with splashes of crimson and fuchsia. Cast iron and natural-looking materials such as rope and bamboo are liberally employed in the public areas...
...Kuala Lumpur and "cool hotels" are not often mentioned in the same breath, but the reopening of the eight-year-old Hotel Maya, after a $10 million makeover, may change that. The hotel is in the busy heart of the Malaysian capital, but top local architect Sonny Chan - a specialist in tropical architecture - has managed to give it the air of a chic, beachfront getaway. Earth tones and black and white predominate, with splashes of crimson and fuchsia. Cast iron and natural-looking materials such as rope and bamboo are liberally employed in the public areas...
...Yasukuni?not Japan's longstanding ties to the U.S.?that is straining relations within Asia to a breaking point. The leaders of South Korea and China refused to have formal bilateral meetings with Koizumi at December's East Asian summit in Kuala Lumpur. At the APEC summit in November, South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun told Koizumi the visits to Yasukuni were "totally unacceptable." Tang Jiaxuan, a Chinese State Council member in charge of diplomacy, said that the issue has made Sino-Japanese relations "the most difficult" since the two nations normalized diplomatic ties in 1972. And Wang...
...summit may not live up to its hype; few such gatherings do. But it is not unreasonable to see the meeting in Kuala Lumpur as a punctuation mark in the 60-year-long progress of Asia. The leaders of the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet together with those of Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand - and China. The U.S will not be present. Some of the more breathless commentary on the summit sees parallels to the meeting of European leaders in Messina in 1955, which laid the foundations for what has become...