Word: mecca
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...made and cut over night. It's total chaos." Will the rapprochement between France's Muslims and the rest of society last? Some say that the government should reward the country's Muslims by making Eid al-Adha, the festival marking the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, a school holiday. And it could be difficult for Islamic leaders to reverse last week's acceptance of the head-scarf ban once the hostage crisis has passed. As the school year begins, both sides still have a lot to learn...
...SEOUL Livingsa, located in the Hoehyeon Underground Mall in the financial district, is a mecca for vinyl hunters. The tiny shop is so tightly packed with its 150,000 records that customers have to shuffle sideways around the store. The catalog is eclectic and includes Korean folk collections from the 1950s, live Nat King Cole recordings, Eddie Murphy stand-up albums as well as a jumble of jazz, classical...
Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 9-sq.-mi. territory, whose small contingent of casinos generated $3.6 billion in gaming revenue--three-fourths of what the Vegas Strip managed to pull in. Long a mecca for Asia's high rollers, Macau in 2003 averaged a daily haul of nearly $22,000 per gaming table compared with just $2,200 in Vegas. And thanks to the recent removal of certain internal travel restrictions, some 150 million mainlanders can now head to Macau without a tour guide...
...Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 23-sq-km territory, whose small contingent of casinos generated $3.6 billion in gaming revenue - three-fourths of what the Vegas Strip managed to pull in. Long a mecca for Asia's high rollers, Macau in 2003 averaged a daily haul of nearly $22,000 per gaming table compared with just $2,200 in Vegas. And thanks to the recent removal of certain internal travel restrictions, some 150 million mainlanders can now head to Macau without a tour guide...
...flights a day, AirAsia currently has a hundred. On July 1 alone, AirAsia launched its first flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, added a second to Bangkok and announced two more to Malaysian cities. Four days later, Fernandes was on AirAsia's first flight from Bangkok to the gambling mecca of Macau. Upcoming in August: flights to Bali. He's also eyeing China and India. Fernandes boasts, "We have transformed the way people think about flying...