Word: shangri
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...Although Mafatlal could easily afford to scoop up gowns by the gross, she wasn't shopping for herself. She was on a fact-finding mission as a prelude to opening the first Valentino store in India, in partnership with Valentino Fashion Group SpA, in New Delhi's five-star Shangri-La hotel. Valentino is the first of several Western designers introduced into India by MLP (Mafatlal Luxury Private), the company Mafatlal heads...
...houses, pictured above, and all have unobstructed views of Himalayan peaks and grazing buffalo. If that doesn't satiate your appetite for exotic luxury, then you can get a second helping at the Banyan Tree Ringha, a sister property four hours' drive north. Located just outside the city of Shangri-La (which used to be known as Zhongdian until the Chinese government renamed it in a bid to lure tourists), Ringha's well-heated two-story Tibetan-style houses feature lovely wooden bathtubs for two, while the spa offers traditional gui shi hot-stone massages that will have you feeling...
...that doesn't satiate your appetite for exotic luxury, then you can get a second helping at the Banyan Tree Ringha, a sister property four hours' drive north. Located just outside the city of Shangri-La (which used to be known as Zhongdian until the Chinese government renamed it in a bid to lure tourists), Ringha's well-heated two-story Tibetan-style houses feature lovely wooden bathtubs for two, while the spa offers traditional gui shi hot-stone massages that will have you feeling even closer to heaven than the property's 3,600-m elevation. Local villagers opposed...
...China has saved Lhasa, their enemies abroad insisting that all Chinese are evil and all Tibetans are pure innocents?Barnett's meticulous documentation has a fresh and welcome air to it. Clearly, he has no time for those who would romanticize old Tibet, or traffic in images of Shangri-La: Tibetans were more than capable of brutality against themselves, he points out, with at least 200 monks dying during an attempted coup in Lhasa in 1947, and the city was never as detached from modern life as the starry-eyed like to believe?Elizabeth Arden cosmetics and the latest Bing...
...subject of buying Unocal had never before been discussed at a board meeting?which meant that when they sat down with CNOOC's CEO Fu Chengyu and other top executives on March 29 in a conference room at the Island Shangri-La in Hong Kong, they were in for a shock. CNOOC, Fu told them, was ready to make a play for the Los Angeles-based oil company. "The ship was about to leave the port, and the [directors] hadn't even known there was a ship," says one adviser to CNOOC with knowledge of the meeting...