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DISSOLVED. THAILAND'S PARLIAMENT, by King Bhumibol Adulyadej, at the request of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra; in order to call new elections; in Bangkok. While Thaksin's opponents have railed against his family's tax-free $1.9 billion windfall from the sale of Shin Corp., the telecom giant he founded, the Prime Minister still enjoys strong support among rural Thais. Elections for a new House of Representatives will take place on April...
...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...
...started 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...
...University and their peers in Asia. The program has nearly doubled in the number of participants in the past year.This year, students from six different nations are visiting from institutions including National Taiwan University, Peking University, National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, and Thammasat University of Bangkok, Thailand. Harvard students host the visitors in their dorm rooms, and during spring break those students in turn travel to Asia for a similar cultural experience.For many of the visiting students, this was their first time in the United States. HCAP organizers tried to impart to these students...
...beneficiaries of Thailand's new fashion consciousness is Disaya Prakobsantisukh, a lingerie designer who opened her first Bangkok shop in 2004 while still a fashion student in London. Disaya, 27, sells her Boudoir brand in five spots around Bangkok. She describes her creations?which also include lingerie-inspired ready-to-wear clothes?as "very femme ... sexy and childish at the same time." Even though they're locally made, they're not cheap: a hand-knitted, torn-chiffon dress sells for $550. But that doesn't seem to be hurting her business?this year's plans include tripling the size...