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...improve the services sector by increasing financial assistance to targeted businesses and by reducing red tape. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is undertaking his own deregulation program, with a special focus on Taiwan's biggest trading partner, China. Ma believes that sectors of Taiwan's economy, such as tourism and finance, have been stunted by the island's political standoff with Beijing. (China considers Taiwan a renegade province.) Ma is pushing for an agreement with China that would allow for free flows of capital and services across the Taiwan Strait for the first time. He has already opened the island...
Like most of the world's favored travel destinations, tourism-dependent Paris is looking for ways to ride out what promises to be a dismal, recession-plagued 2009. There are bargains to be had, and the welcome mat will be out, defying Parisians' reputation for a certain aloofness when it comes to receiving visitors...
...implementation of Shari'a law is not bad news to many who believe it will be adopted in its moderate form. Karachi native Jamal Panhwal used to work in Pakistan's now shrinking tourism industry and until 2007, guided hundreds of walking tours through Swat. Says he: "I am quite confident the people causing trouble are not from Swat. The natives of this community are the most progressive Pathans. If law is in the control of the local people of Swat, then everything will be fine...
...1930s,” which is on display until November of this year. The Showa period of Japanese history, which translates to “period of enlightened peace,” lasted from 1926 to 1989 and witnessed a government-sanctioned boom in urban renewal via tourism, sporting, and even fashion. The exhibition utilizes these three topics in order to shift the works into separate but relatable categories. In the 1930s, though Japan had only opened its ports to Western trade mere decades prior, nationalistic ambition generated the impetus to fashion Tokyo after the capital cities of Europe with...
...Taling Pling Thanon Pan's most famed restaurant is Taling Pling, tel: (66-2) 236 4830. Many dishes here are traditional Thai gone the bland way of all tourism. But order wisely to score a rare northeastern-style curry of thick greens with hed thob (tiny mushrooms) or thousand-year eggs deep fried with basil. Besides, Taling Pling serves one mean caramel-lined banana cream...