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...SHANGHAI Shanghai Tang's tote ($365) pays homage to another era in the city's history...
...Shalini Mehta, 27, Stylist Toto's Garage Pub and Restaurant in Bandra West, tel: (91-22) 2600 5494, is a great place to hang out. I like it for its garage décor - there's a very grunge feel to it. If you're hungry, try their Shanghai Chicken. But if you'd rather go elsewhere for dinner, head to Out of the Blue, tel: (91-22) 2600 3000, a lounge place off Carter Road with romantic lighting, good music and Mediterranean-style food. End the night at any of the nearby coffee shops, which stay open late...
...unconventional with her outspokenness, Miyuki Hatoyama can claim a background uncommon for most Japanese women: she was born abroad and has lived overseas for more than 10 years in her adulthood, she has had more than one career, and she is in her second marriage. Born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, she returned when she was one year old and grew up in Kobe. By 18, under the name Miyuki Waka, she was acting with the all-female Takarazuka Theater troupe, a traditional Japanese revue with a style somewhere between a glitzy Las Vegas spectacle and a Pyongyang parade to celebrate...
...kicked out of China in June 2007 after illegally scurrying up the country's tallest building, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, which stands 1,410 feet...
...Praising China's use of moral suasion to persuade the banks to cut back on lending instead of resorting to the blunt instrument of raising interest rates, ING sees GDP returning to its trend growth of 10% next year. The Shanghai index now "rests two standard deviations below the trend line that starts in early November 2008, which we consider strong support," says ING chief economist Tim Condon. "We do not expect the support to be broken...