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The menu is American in the main, freshened up by Italian and Mexican accents and one or two playfully errant Oriental items (Vietnamese spring rolls, Thai crispy noodles). We start with sesame-crusted scallops with “My Favorite Stir Fry Green Beans” ($12), a rather pointless...
The Hong Kong showbiz scene has an appetite for sensation. The tiny Special Administration Region is crawling with movie stars and pop idols who are paid to be in public - presiding at boutique openings, promoting their CDs, shilling for breast-enhancement creams - and who, when they?re on their own...
Though the saga is likely to drag on, many observers are betting that the Prime Minister will ultimately buckle, compro- mising on the plan's recommendations until they are impotent. Real reform, they say, is about as likely as the successful completion of that Hail Mary pass. "The reformers are...
From the Trojan siege that spawned Homer's Iliad to the Luftwaffe bombing that inspired Picasso's Guernica, war has long served as a midwife for art. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the ensuing horror found expression in the most traditional Afghan art form?the Oriental rug...
The country's $5 billion tourism industry?which contributes about 3% of GDP?is expected to be devastated, possibly for years to come. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Jakarta saw 700 room cancellations in the days after Bali. Markus Schneider, the hotel's executive assistant manager says that the blast...