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...least 50 Stava residents are believed to have lost their lives. Even harder hit was the tourist population, especially guests at three hotels, the Erika, the Stava and the Miramonti. All were crowded at the time, and it was originally feared that 95 children were among the victims when the buildings were totally destroyed. But on Saturday it was learned that the two bus-loads of children had left the scene safely. Many other people died. "We reached the Erika," said one fireman, "and there was nothing there. It was just gone." Explained Painter Giovanni Grandi, who had been...
...DIED. PRINCE RAINER III, 81, Europe's longest-reigning monarch, who, as ruler of Monaco for 56 years, transformed his tiny, nearly bankrupt principality into a tourist-friendly international business center; after a month-long hospitalization for heart, lung, and kidney ailments; in Monaco. With the help of his 1956 fairy-tale marriage to Hollywood royal Grace Kelly, Rainier modernized a community once called a "sunny place for shady people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino, and popularizing the mini-state, which has no income tax, as a tax haven for foreign...
...almost 20 years as the general manager of the Choeung Ek genocide memorial, Neang Say revealed to the Cambodian media a second secret about the mass graves?a plan to privatize them, turning over their management to a Japanese company so they can be transformed into a revenue-generating tourist attraction. According to a contract signed on March 18, the new operator, JC Royal Co., is expected to "increase revenue for the state and develop and renovate the beauty of Choeung Ek killing fields." JC Royal is to pay the municipality of Phnom Penh $15,000 a year. In return...
...last week with a spate of bombings and shootings that left four people dead, the Prime Minister ruled out the idea of retaliating with force against the insurgents. At the same time he ordered a dramatic increase in security at the nation's airports, embassies, and major commercial and tourist centers. Last week, hundreds of checkpoints and surveillance cameras were set up across Bangkok, including on Khao San Road, a tourist strip popular with backpackers. "We must remain vigilant," says one senior military intelligence official. "[The militants now] have the ability to strike anywhere...
DIED. PRINCE RAINIER III, 81, Europe's longest-reigning monarch, who, as ruler of Monaco for 56 years, transformed his tiny, nearly bankrupt principalitya longtime gambling playground for Europe's wealthy éliteinto a tourist-friendly international business center; after a month-long hospitalization for heart, lung and kidney ailments; in Monaco. With the help of his 1956 fairy-tale marriage to Hollywood royal Grace Kelly, Rainier modernized a community once called a "sunny place for shady people," building affordable hotels to draw middle-class visitors to its famed Monte Carlo casino and popularizing the mini-state, which...