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...tigers are already heading in the right direction. Shortly after South Korean President Lee Myung Bak took office last year, he launched a program to improve the services sector by increasing financial assistance to targeted businesses and by reducing red tape. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is undertaking his own deregulation program, with a special focus on Taiwan's biggest trading partner, China. Ma believes that sectors of Taiwan's economy, such as tourism and finance, have been stunted by the island's political standoff with Beijing. (China considers Taiwan a renegade province.) Ma is pushing for an agreement with...
...flair for the macabre - in one scene, a man who has been tortured by Red Guards commits suicide by driving a nail through his skull - but there's humor in between the horror. Having made a fortune trading scrap, Baldy decides to launch a contest to find the country's most beautiful virgin. The "Inaugural National Virgin Beauty Competition" is a punchy spoof of the Beijing Olympics, complete with salivating sponsors, a city leveled and rebuilt for out-of-town guests and a contestant who wins by sleeping with the judges. Portraits of contemporary China are rarely sharper or more...
Sharply attired in a slim-fitting black suit and stylish thick-rimmed glasses, Matthew B. Kaiser folds his elbows neatly on his desk. For a professor who leads a class on crime and horror, his Barker Center office is strikingly cheery. The plush red rug matches the pillows arranged on the sumptuous couch and the lamp that sits atop one of the full bookshelves lining the walls...
...century mansion where actor Daniel Craig stayed during the three-month Bond shoot. The hotel's three guest rooms are named after the Canal's massive locks - Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun - and each has a wrought-iron balcony with views of the Casco's Cathedral Plaza and surrounding red-tiled roofs and cobblestone alleyways...
...recently opened Pony Club (www.limoncillo.com) for dinner. Panamanian chef Clara Icaza has worked at Manhattan hot spot Aquavit, and her nuevo-Panamanian menu includes signature dishes such as Turkolimano (grilled jumbo prawns, tomato and feta with lemon-ouzo vinaigrette) and squid risotto in a broth of octopus and roasted red pepper, all served in a pale-wood dining room and accompanied by an ambitious wine list. After dinner, it's just a short drive back to the Casco Viejo and its many historic glories...