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...emerges in the Paris show is an innovator, a perfectionist and a self-promoter. He experimented with the latest gadgets and technology, using an early pocket camera to capture the crowd at Paris' Longchamps racetrack, and portraying artist Auguste Rodin by combining two negatives, one of him with his Victor Hugo sculpture and another with his The Thinker. (The critics loved it; so did Rodin...
...Victor Woo, driver, SMRT Taxis Start at Tanglin Village on Dempsey Hill, formerly home to military barracks and now packed with dozens of restaurants, bars and boutiques. Stroll around the antique-furniture shops and art galleries. For outdoor dining under the stars, go to Oosh, tel: (65) 6475 0002, for its lush greenery, huge waterfall and Western-Japanese cuisine. Try the warm Valrhona chocolate torte with ice cream. Afterwards, go to Bugis Village night market for some bargains, before ending with a supper of local fruits at Geylang district - it's the red-light district but it's also known...
...unsettled and sometimes dangerous country it is a refuge where, after a few visits, everybody knows your name - especially Mark Victor and Thomas Cressaty, the journalists turned restaurateurs who opened L'Atmo (as the regulars call it) in 2004. On Thursday nights - the start of the Kabul weekend - the poolside bar bursts with an eclectic gathering of security analysts, foreign correspondents, diplomats, aid workers and miscellaneous adventure seekers chattering in multiple languages. If Star Wars were to be remade in Afghanistan, the bar scene where Han Solo encounters - and kills - a bounty hunter would take place at L'Atmo...
...Spending summer weekends at the spacious patio and pool is de rigueur for the Kabul social set, though conversations tend toward war stories rather than the latest charity ball. In fact, so central is L'Atmo to the lives of the Afghan capital's foreign community, Victor and Cressaty have opened a branch in Kabul's sandbag-ringed NATO compound. This is so that troops - who aren't allowed around town without a humvee escort - can get a decent meal with relative ease. To quote the restaurateurs' compatriot, Napoleon Bonaparte, "an army marches on its stomach." Dishes like L'Atmo...
...BYUT party of Yuliya Tymoshenko, the former Premier fired in September 2005 by her Orange bloc rival, Victor Yushchenko, appears locked in a neck-to-neck race with the Party of Regions (PR), led by incumbent Premier Victor Yanukovych. With 68 percent of the vote counted, Tymoshenko, whose party advocates closer relations with the West, had 32.59 percent, versus 31.62 percent for Yanukovych, considered closer to Russia. Despite the difference at the moment being a mere 0.97 percent, an already triumphant Tymoshenko promised the media this morning that she would face them next time as Premier. However, as more votes...