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...Tokyo's maze of alleys, lack of English signage and haphazard street numbering? Then here's some good news: in a trial program lasting until the end of March, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is loaning visitors PDAs designed to make life easier. There are English, Mandarin and Korean versions of the device, each featuring a voice translator, free local calls, unlimited Internet access and sightseeing information. "Many overseas tourists are in trouble with verbal communications in Japan, and public transportation is overly complicated," says ministry spokesman Asao Toba. "Tourists would prefer having...
...make no mistake, Clissold reports from deep in the trenches. Eventually Pat invests in a variety of companies in China, dealing with everything from beer to brake pads; there's nothing glamorous about any of them. Clissold, a fluent Mandarin speaker, becomes Pat's chief troubleshooter--and there's plenty of trouble. (How does $58 million "disappearing" from the books of a company you've bought grab you?) This is the mid to late '90s, remember, when to many Chinese the definition of capitalism still seemed to be "The foreigner comes, gives me a lot of money, then goes away...
...Tokyo's maze of alleys, lack of English signage and haphazard street numbering? Then here's some good news: in a trial program lasting until the end of March, the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is loaning visitors PDAs designed to make life easier. There are English, Mandarin and Korean versions of the device, each featuring a voice translator, free local calls, unlimited Internet access and sightseeing information...
...Lanna-inspired hotels and resorts are popping up like mushrooms in the northernmost provinces. Ultra-chic retreats like the Rachamanka and Tamarind Village have been booked solid in recent months. And now the soft-opened Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi Chiang Mai hotel, tel: (66-53) 888 888, is set to give Lanna style?characterized by sloping roofs, porches and houses built high off the ground?a new impetus. Pavilions, moats and reconditioned rice barns sit alongside 66 lavish private villas and nearly 80 suites, while the nearby Dheva Spa?over which dozens of wood-carvers sweated for three years...
...adaptation of a Pearl Buck novel, The Patriot, on Orson Welles' Campbell Playhouse (successor to his Mercury Theatre on the Air), supported by future Citizen Kane co-stars Ray Collins and Everett Sloane (as Chiang Kai-shek!). Wong played Peony, a servant in the house of the mandarin-turned-revolutionary I-Wan (Welles). Again she gets star billing; again she has a small role...