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...back safaris will take you deep into the forest. Four of the best national parks are listed below; a few days spent in any one of them can open a window into a secret world, where golden-faced storks hover over the morning mist in ghostly congress, monkeys hold parliament on the branches of dead trees, and peacocks fight stately, formal duels while circling around watering holes...
...appetite. Head to the New 7th Storey Hotel in Bugis, tel: (65) 6333 4900, for an alfresco "steamboat" or hot-pot dinner. The hotel is one the few remaining old landmarks in the area. After dinner, pop over to the Arts House, tel: (65) 6332 6900, on Old Parliament Lane. A theater screens Singaporean films and critically acclaimed foreign works, while the café, Earshot, doubles as a shop that stocks the largest collection of local music, books and videos. If you want to chill out late, go to Haji Lane, where there are dozens of quaint little...
Turkey has voted itself the right to launch cross-border military attacks on Kurdish separatist fighters holed up in Northern Iraq, but it has not yet decided to exercise that right. The Turkish Parliament on Wednesday authorized military operations into neighboring Iraq to hunt down guerrillas of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, which continues to launch attacks inside Turkey that have killed more than 30 Turks in recent weeks...
...Olympics Committee. "All they can do is sing along with 'la la la.'" In an attempt to rectify the situation, the Committee, working with the Society of Authors and Writers, has opened a contest to put words to the Spanish national anthem. The winning entry will be presented before Parliament on Dec. 19, in the hope that the legislators will decide to make it official. But in today's Spain, with its fierce regional identities and sharply conflicting political ideologies, the idea that members of the contest's jury - let alone a bunch of politicians - could agree on a single...
...Gorges Dam across China's Yangtze River has been mired in controversy ever since it was first proposed 88 years ago by Sun Yat Sen, the founding father of Modern China. In 1992, when Chinese Premier Li Peng submitted a proposal for the dam to China's normally pliant parliament, the National People's Congress, it ran into serious opposition and ultimately passed with the smallest margin in the legislature's history...