Word: siam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mean anything," says the graduate of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. Siriwan prefers terms like vintage and one of a kind. Indeed, she goes out of her way to supply her customers with unique designs, often made with antique fabrics discovered on buying trips around Asia. Her store on Siam Square, tel: (66-2) 658 4696-7, attracts a diverse clientele, from students to society matrons. Prices range from $65 for a puff-sleeved T shirt to $3,200 for a floor-length ivory slip with lace and pearls. INSPIRED BY INNER COMPLEXITY: Since its opening nearly three years ago, this...
...While Razzak appears to be a well-qualified technocrat, there are questions over whether Interior Minister nominee and longtime Hamas activist Sayed Siam will have the power and experience to handle the increasingly difficult internal security challenge symbolized by Monday's Gaza firefights. Still, Hamas is taking a pragmatic approach, blessing current talks about opening border crossings to ease the stranglehold on Gaza's food supplies and also on combating a regional outbreak of bird...
...THAILAND: Siam Winery (www.siamwinery.com) began life producing blended wine-juice coolers, but lifted its game in recent years with the help of French winemaker Laurent Metge-Toppin. Siam's Chatemp label took a bronze medal at the International Wine & Spirits competition...
...production at Sanur, Bali, with Alphonse Lavelle grapes in 1994, experts scoffed, claiming that the table variety was unsuitable for winemaking. They were wrong. Hatten's Rosé is medium dry, fresh and pleasantly fruity. Winemaker Vincent Desplat also produces an award-winning, semisweet wine, Pino de Bali. THAILAND: Siam Winery, www.siamwinery.com, began life producing blended wine and juice coolers, but lifted its game in recent years with the help of French winemaker Laurent Metge-Toppin. Siam's Chatemp label took a bronze medal at the International Wine & Spirits competition in 2001. JAPAN: With Asia's most developed winemaking industry...
...1980s and '90s, an unassuming Thai boutique called Greyhound did respectable business in Bangkok's Siam Center shopping mall, selling reasonably priced clothes that melded international urban chic with local tastes. For its co-owner and designer, an advertising executive named Bhanu Inkawat, the shop was little more than a weekend hobby. But in 2003, with Thailand starting to become more fashion conscious, Bhanu saw an opportunity: he quit his day job and poured his energy into Greyhound. Today, Bhanu, 50, presides over a growing style empire with 12 designers, 14 clothing stores and seven caf?s in Bangkok, franchises...