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...More for Less. The Marriott Rewards guest loyalty program, has lowered the points required for a three-night stay at participating Marriott hotels anywhere in the world - from Phuket, Thailand, to Tucson. To stay three nights, you'll need to redeem only enough points for two. So, if you stay six nights, for example, you'll be charged for four. The Three For Two promotion is good through Sept...
...director of iiNet, an Australian ISP. He added that his company agreed to participate in the trial only to demonstrate that the policy was "fundamentally flawed, a waste of taxpayers' money and would not work." Critics of mandatory Internet filtering point out that in some countries, including China and Thailand, it's used to block not only morally objectionable content but also those that are critical of the government. More to the point, many Internet providers say blacklists don't work anyway: most illegal activity online happens via peer-to-peer networking, which Web filters can't block...
Believing that organic, locally farmed ingredients could be fashioned into gourmet feasts free of meat, dairy, eggs or any other animal products, he developed a slew of complex, flavorful dishes for a menu that changes depending on what's in season and incorporates influences from Spain, India, Thailand and elsewhere. With charmoula (North African-style) grilled portobello mushroom, maple-glazed smoked tempeh, various rich curries and inventive salads, he has proven that he can take what die-hard carnivores sarcastically term "rabbit food" and turn it into the kind of meal that lingers long in the memory...
...Mosquito Coast In return for oil, natural gas, timber, hydropower, gemstones, cash crops and a periodic table's worth of minerals, countries like China, India, Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea are propping up - and massively enriching - Burma's top brass. In the first nine months of 2008, foreign investment in Burma almost doubled year on year to nearly $1 billion, according to government figures that don't even take into account significant underground economic activity. Burma today is estimated to produce 90% of the world's rubies by value, 80% of its teak, and is home to one of Asia...
...Eastern oil can dock and disgorge their valuable cargo, gives China an alternative to the expensive and sometimes dangerous Strait of Malacca by directly supplying energy to its landlocked west. The Shwe project is Burma's largest ever foreign-investment commitment. (The second largest is the Yadana pipeline to Thailand.) Though Arakan sits on the country's biggest oil and natural-gas fields, Sittwe only gets three hours of electricity a day. The town boasts an "e-library" located in a government building, but all the computers sit unused because there is no power during office hours...