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...running for the Davao mayoralty on his eternal platform: to bring peace and order the Duterte way. The city's 1.3 million residents swept him back into office, and no wonder. On his watch, Davao's per capita crime rate has sunk to the nation's lowest. The local tourism board calls it "the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia." People once fled the place in fear; now they flee other trouble spots in the Philippines?for Davao...
Genial and plain-spoken, 69-year-old Prasarttong-Osoth attributes the company's success to its focus on tourism?especially to cultural destinations?courting the oft-sneered-at holidaymaker rather than the business traveler. "Tourists travel all week long," he says. "Businessmen are more demanding and can only travel a few days a week. Where's the money to be made in that?" On average, his flights are 75% full, and 93% of those passengers are international tourists. Tourists for whom Prasarttong-Osoth has great plans. As part of his Mekong region tourism development scheme, Prasarttong-Osoth has started building...
...addition to moving GSE and the Law School, several museums and science labs should move across the river. The museums will help improve community relations with Allston, attracting tourism and opening the University to the city’s residents. The science facilities are desperately in need of space to expand and improve; state-of-the-art labs built across the river will have room to grow as new subjects of inquiry arise...
...maintained online. BORN. To MARIANNE PEARL,the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a baby boy; in Paris. Pearl was killed more than four months ago by Islamic militants while reporting in Pakistan. ARRESTED. LEE HONG SEOK, 54, Korea's assistant minister of culture and tourism, on bribery charges; in Seoul. Lee is accused of having received $13,800 from sports-lottery operator Tiger Pools International to secure a license in 2001. He is the first government official to be arrested in the scandal that has also implicated the youngest son of President Kim Dae Jung. AWARDED.To...
That may well spawn other reforms, such as allowing Cuba access to U.S. credit to buy American food and medicine. "U.S. business, tourism and farm-state politics are overtaking Miami politics on this issue," says Flake, an Arizona Republican. Florida political analysts say the Bushes want to maintain a hard line, at least until the gubernatorial election in November. But with even Fidel turning against the embargo, the Bush brothers may have less time than they thought. --With reporting by Dolly Mascarenas/Havana