Newsweek International articles from April 2008

Newsweek International archives from April 2008

Mail Call: Turkey and the EU.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
April 7, 2008... Our Feb. 18 cover story on Turkey's fight to join the EU got mixed responses from readers. One claimed, "Turkey isn't part of Europe--its leaders can't manipulate geography." Another said, "Erdogan is Islamizing Turkey, not democratizing it." A...

The Politics of Practical Nostalgia.(World Affairs; EAST ASIA)(Ma Ying-jeou, Lee Myung-bak, Thaksin Shinawatra)(Cover story)
April 7, 2008... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jonathan Adams; With Jaimie Seaton in Bangkok and B. J. Lee in Seoul Asians are rallying to new leaders promising something the region once took for granted: growth. Voters in Asia are kicking out...

Meet Taiwan's Conciliator-Elect.(World Affairs; FIRST PERSON)(Ma Ying-jeou)(Interview)
April 7, 2008... Urging Beijing to seize the chance for cross-strait detente A political earthquake shook Taiwan on March 22. Out went the brash, pro-independence Chen Shui-bian. In came mild-mannered Ma Ying-jeou, who has ambitious plans to open Taiwan's...

The Prime Minister Vanishes.(World Affairs)(Yasuo Fukuda)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi As Japan's economy stalls, Yasuo Fukuda has gone missing in action. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda couldn't have made it any clearer. Appearing before the cameras on March 24, he...

China's Dangerous Game.(World Affairs; PROPAGANDA)(violent demonstation in Lhasa, Tibet)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Melinda Liu; With Mary Hennock in Beijing and bureau reports As rulers successfully crush sympathy for Tibet at home, they stir it worldwide. It didn't take long after the outbreak of violent protests in Tibet two weeks ago...

Taking Out the Trash.(World Affairs; EUROPE)(Italy's general election)(Cover story)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Barbie Nadeau, Jacopo Barigazzi and Christopher Dickey If Silvio Berlusconi and Walter Veltroni came together they just might be able to save Italy. Eating mozzarella cheese is becoming a test of patriotism in Italy. But not...

The Businessman Prime Minister.(World Affairs; THE VIEW FROM THE RIGHT)(Silvio Berlusconi)(Interview)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Jacopo Barigazzi 'I'm an entrepreneur who has grown up in the market.' Never one to be out of the spotlight, media mogul Silvio Berlusconi is running for another term as Italy's prime minister. NEWSWEEK's Jacopo Barigazzi...

The 52-Year-Old Italian Upstart.(World Affairs; THE VIEW FROM THE LEFT)(Walter Veltroni)(Interview)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Barbie Nadeau 'I honestly believe that we are now facing our last chance.' Former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, at 52, would be Italy's youngest elected prime minister if he wins against 71-year-old Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's...

Why Beijing Needs Tibet's Help.(Point of View)(Viewpoint essay)
April 7, 2008... Recent events in Tibet have underscored the fact that more than a Half Century of Chinese occupation--and forcible attempts to change Tibetans into Han Chinese--aren't working and never will. Resistance to Beijing's imperialism hasn't come just...

A Crash Landing.(World Affairs)(Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Rod Nordland and William Underhill; With Sophie Grove and Christopher Werth in London Heathrow is one of the world's busiest airports--and possibly the worst. Heathrow is hard to avoid. The world's busiest international...

Slowing the Money Trail.(Business; EAST ASIA)(remittances)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Joseph Contreras; With Mac Margolis in Rio De Janeiro, Owen Matthews in Moscow and Stefan Theil in Berlin Immigrants are starting to send less cash back home, in part because there's no one at home. For decades, millions of...

Music to Her Eyes.(Arts)(Patti Smith)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Amber Haq Patti Smith, the high priestess of punk rock, also knows her way around a camera and a sketchpad. She may be an icon of rock and roll and the godmother of punk, but today Patti Smith is in a mellow mood. Sitting by...

Building Moments.(Society and the Arts)(Jean Nouvel)(Interview)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan Pritzker Prize winner Jean Nouvel on his battle to reshape a world of cities that all look the same. Jean Nouvel, 62, is the 2008 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, only the second French designer...

Lawrence Summers: 'A Long Way From The 1970s'.(The Last Word)(Interview)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Adam B. Kushner Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary, is as well credentialed as anyone to assess the global credit crisis. He won the John Bates Clark award for best economist under 40, was chief economist at the World...

It Began With Books.(Turning Point)(Room to Read)
April 7, 2008... Byline: John Wood; Wood is the founder of Room to Read and the author of "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World." On Microsoft, meaning, and the drive to help educate children across the developing world. My defining moment happened 10...

With Rooms to Grow.(The Good Life; TRAVEL)(Moscow hotels)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Anna Nemtsova If there is any doubt that Moscow has arrived as a high-end tourist destination, just try booking a hotel room. Accommodations in the hotel-starved Russian capital are already going for $1,000 a night--not including...

Sirocco, Kalk Bay, South Africa.(The Good Life; HOT SPOT)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Located about an hour outside Cape Town, this lovely open-air restaurant is snuggled on the main street between art galleries, antiques shops and the picturesque harbor filled with fishing boats and friendly seals....

Belize City.(The Good Life; 4 HOURS IN)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Lauren Mack THIS unspoiled Central American eco-tourism center is a perfect blend of natural beauty and compelling history, boasting world-class diving, ancient ruins, rain forests and small islands, like Cayo Espanto, which can be...

The Maximalist.(The Good Life)(Dubai First Royale credit card)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Karen Pinchin When platinum just isn't enough, the diamond-encrusted Dubai First Royale credit card can deliver any good or service imaginable. Available by invitation only and hand-delivered to the front door, it comes with a...

Watch Out for the Bees.(The Good Life; FASHION)(garments and accessories with rose design)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Lily Huang A rose is a rose is a dress is a purse is a -- shoe? This spring, roses can be found on all sorts of garments and accessories, and still look awfully sweet. They garnish Prada's satin clutch, their folds echoed on the...

Mountain Highs.(The Good Life; ADVENTURE)(zip lines)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Paul Tolme Thrill-seekers are discovering the joys of zip lines, rides that zoom over treetops at high speeds. Riders wear a harness that clips to a cable, and automatic brakes prevent crashes at the bottom. Popularized in Costa...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Quotation Sources: AP, Reuters, AP, Reuters, NY Times, BBC "Mr. Fujimori -- You are sleeping!" Peruvian judge Cesar San Martin, scolding the former president for snoozing at his own trial, where he stands accused of authorizing...

Christian Provocateurs and Muslim Moderation.(Periscope; CONTROVERSIAL CONVERSIONS)(Pope Benedict's baptism of Magdi Allam)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Christopher Dickey Have you noticed that Europe is issuing new provocations to Islam, and that Muslims are reacting so far with calm? Dutch politician Geert Wilders is promoting a film he says will prove his belief that "Islamic...

Going Down the Tubes?(Periscope; CITY OF LONDON)(Northern Rock)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz As the Bear Stearns meltdown made front-page news in Britain last week, London bankers worried Wall Street's chaos could spread across the pond. And with good reason: bankers and regulators are still feeling the...

What 10 Million Buys.(Periscope; BLACK MARKETS)(10 million Zimbabwe dollars)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Scott Johnson Zimbabwe's new 10 million dollar bill is red, perhaps a warning that this money is melting down fast. Last week, 10 million Zimbabwe dollars could buy two rolls of toilet paper. By now, it probably won't get quite...

It's Biennial Time.(Periscope; MODERN ART)(Whitney Biennial)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Katie Baker The Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial show has long been heralded as a survey of the most influential up-and-comers, and also derided as a hit-or-miss exhibit that fails to live up to its hype. The reality, of...

PR For Dictators.(Periscope; SPINMEISTERS)(public relations)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Christopher Flavelle In the 1930s, the Nazis hired an American named Ivy Lee to improve relations between Hitler's government and Washington, until the deal provoked outrage and led to the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938....

Containing Multitudes.(Periscope; FAST CHAT)(Junot Diaz)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 7, 2008... Literary wunderkind Junot Diaz's debut novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," just netted top honors with the National Book Critics Circle Award. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Jesse Ellison. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: So 10 years ago you were...

Building A Faster Internet.(The Technologist)(dynamic-circuit network technology)
April 7, 2008... Byline: Karen Pinchin A conductor in Tokyo moves his baton, and an orchestra in Cleveland starts to play. A few bars later, a violinist in Berlin joins in. To compensate for a slight delay, the musicians play along with an electronic...

Mail Call: Italy's Problems.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
April 14, 2008... Our Feb. 25 cover story on Italy's mess hit home for many readers. "Politicians hide the truth of the economic decline," wrote one. Another said, "Problems of crime, corruption and inefficiency are well known." A third insisted, "Venice is not...

Attack of the Judges.(World Affairs; Europe)(secularism versus religion )
April 14, 2008... Byline: Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen In the battle for the heart and soul of Turkey, the lines are now being drawn by the judiciary. Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya doesn't look like a revolutionary. With his sober black suits and neatly...

Ankara's Quiet Revolution.(Point of View)(banning of Justice and Development Party)(Viewpoint essay)
April 14, 2008... Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) must be delighted by the recent turn of events. On March 31, the nation's constitutional court agreed to review a case urging that the party be banned for allegedly violating Turkey's secular...

Repression 2.0.(World Affairs; Asia)(internet repression)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Adam B. Kushner; With Zhong Menglu and Melinda Liu in Beijing, Christopher Dickey in Paris And Gameela Ismail in Cairo Totalitarian states are learning to control citizens by creating the impression of ubiquitous surveillance. ...

One Sure Thing: Death to Taxes.(World Affairs)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Mac Margolis; With Brian Byrnes in Buenos Aires Latin Americans watch their taxes grow but get little in return. Now they're finally fighting back. In Argentina, pots and pans have many uses. Brandished over the hearth, they...

What Power Looks Like.(Business)(superclass)(Cover story)
April 14, 2008... Byline: David Rothkopf They ride on Gulfstreams, set the global agenda, and manage the credit crunch in their spare time. They have more in common with each other than their countrymen. Meet the Superclass. To get a sense of how the...

The Overlooked Killer.(World Affairs)(traffic accident)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Andrew Ehrenkranz and Adam B. Kushner; With Jason McLure in Addis Ababa In Africa, traffic accidents are a leading cause of death, inspiring new calls for an end to the carnage. Miscano Messelleh is a 52-year-old truckdriver,...

The Gangs of Beirut.(World Affairs)(Sunni, Shiite)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Mitchell Prothero An eruption of street fights between Shiite and Sunni youths has many fearing a slide toward war. When the scooter flies around the corner for the third time, Mazen and his friends--clustered outside a south...

Digging Up the Dirt.(World Affairs; Truth Test)(Missing Persons Task Team)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Kim Gurney and Scott Johnson A forensics team is tracking down South Africa's disappeared--and reopening some very cold cases. One June day in 1986, security agents from South Africa's apartheid regime abducted 10 black...

Storm Warning.(World Affairs)(food crisis)
April 14, 2008... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jason Overdorf; With Christopher Flavelle, Ana Elena Azpurua and John Sparks in New York The world could be one crop failure away from an actual food crisis. Market panic has already started. When all goes...

Talking Ourselves Into Recession.(The Last Word)(Luis Alberto Moreno)(Interview)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Adam B. Kushner Market turmoil has already spread like a cancer from New York to Berlin. All over the world, the zeitgeist is turning against the markets, prefiguring a cyclical return to regulation. Luis Alberto Moreno, the...

Turkey's Judicial Coup D'etat.(World View)(banning of Justice and Development Party)
April 14, 2008... This battle could last for months longer, and whether the AKP wins or loses, the consequences are bad. Turkey is at war with itself again, over religion and politics in Turkish life, and the consequences for both itself and its friends...

Styling in the Rain.(The Good Life; Fashion)(rain coats)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Karen Pinchin Spring showers may be on their way, but that doesn't mean we need to dress to match the drear. Burberry encourages customers to face the rainy season head-on in its dazzling gold double-breasted leather trench coat...

Hot Spot.(The Good Life)(Sunset Marquis Hotel)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Dana Thomas Sunset Marquis Hotel, Hollywood For most of its 45 years, it's been known as a discreet retreat for the wild and famous: Courtney Love wrote a song about the place, Brad Pitt moved in when he and Jennifer Aniston...

4 Hours In -- Wroclaw, Poland.(The Good Life)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Karen Pinchin Once the ancient capital of Silesia, Wroclaw (pronounced vrot-swaav) weathered the second world war and five name changes to become one of Poland's best-kept secrets, buzzing with romance, hard-earned history and...

Dream Home.(The Good Life)
April 14, 2008... Saunders Street This 7,567sq.k. estate in Perth, Australia, boasts a tennis court, private cinema, boat shed, gymnasium and indoor pool (price upon request; 43saunders.com).

Around the World in 131 Days.(The Good Life; Travel)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Ana E. Azpurua Major cruise companies are scheduling ultra-long voyages for those with time to kill. These journeys evoke the golden age of steamship travel, with the added comforts of our time. The Silver Shadow visits 45...

A Wing And a Chair.(The Good Life; Decor)(MotoArt's aircraft furniture)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... The coolest new office toy isn't a nano-size satellite device. It's a desk made out of a Boeing 747. MotoArt turns salvaged historic aircraft parts into furniture. Now you can gather a board meeting around a wing-flap table ($12,000-$50,000) or...

Perspectives.(Perspectives)(Quotation)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Sources From Top: Times of London, AP, Reuters (2), AP "Everyone should put down 'trisexual,' whoever you are." Actress Vanessa Redgrave, reacting to the news that London's Arts Council is now requiring organizations to list...

If Lethal Dictators Ban the Death Penalty, Who Cares?(Periscope; The Measure Of Civilization)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Joseph Contreras and Owen Matthews For years now, the death penalty has been held up as a marker of enlightenment, distinguishing the cultivated states that ban it from the brutish ones that still administer it. By this measure, the...

Goodbye, Shanghai.(Periscope; Factory Flows)(why )(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Christian Caryl with Jonathan Adams, B. J. Lee and Akiko Kashiwagi Evidence of an investor exodus from China is mounting. Some 200 Taiwanese firms have left the city of Dongguan, says a Taiwan trade group. The Federation of Hong...

All For the Tehran Line.(Periscope; Exclusive Poll)(Iranian youth speak out)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Tepperman Western pundits like to console themselves that while Iran's leaders may be fiercely anti-American, its people, especially the young, are another matter: pro-Western aspiring democrats who, if allowed to vote...

By the Numbers.(Periscope)(Georgia and Ukraine seek North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... They're not a natural pair, even if George W. Bush wants both Georgia and Ukraine in NATO, and Germany and France want them out. No one is listening to what the Georgians and Ukrainians want, which is (respectively) in and out: 77...

Afghanistan's Idol.(Periscope; TV Stars)(Lima Sahar)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau The usual line about "Afghan Star"--the TV hit where competitors croon traditional tunes--is that the show represents a cultural breakthrough in the country's strict Muslim society. It's not a hard...

Dengue Plagues Rio.(Periscope; Disease Watch)(Rio de Janeiro)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Mac Margolis Tropical maladies are nothing new for Brazil. Still, until the late 1990s, dengue fever--the scourge of Asia--was practically unknown in the country, where battalions of mosquito killers had all but wiped out the...

Sarkozy's Nouveau Style.(Periscope; Le Bling-Bling)(Nicolas Sarkozy)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Tracy McNicoll Re-presidentialization. De-bling-bling-ation. To hear spectators on both sides of the channel tell it, you'd think French President Nicolas Sarkozy's trip to Britain last week was less state visit and more celebrity...

Power From a Distance.(The Technologist)(gadgets that don't require plug-in recharging)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Christopher Flavelle Roy Kuennen had a problem to solve. In 1996, one of Amway Corp.'s products, a household water filter, kept breaking down. The filter used an ultraviolet lamp to kill bacteria, but the lamp had to be submerged...

Quirky Ways of Fueling the Future.(The Technologist; Environment)(solar energy)(Brief article)
April 14, 2008... Byline: Katie Paul Chances are you've heard of hybrids and biofuels, but what about oil-producing yeast and turbinelike buoys that transform ocean waves into electricity? Those are just a few of the alternative-energy sources that may...

Mail Call: Seoul's Leader.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
April 21, 2008... Readers of our March 3 article on South Korea's President Lee took us to task. One said, "The leftist government's defeat does not negate all its achievements." Another wrote, "Roh Moo Hyun's Korean is excellent, as are his speeches." A third...

Big Power Goes Local.(Business)(alternative energy)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Stefan Theil; With Patrick Falby and Jesse Ellison A grass-roots movement to generate power in towns and basements is challenging the energy industry's status quo. In the late 1990s, the town of Freiamt in Germany's Black...

Stronger Than Steel.(Business)(bamboo)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Lily Huang Bamboo may be the world's greenest raw material. Architects and bicycle designers are catching on. For the opening race of the Eastern U.S. collegiate cycling season, Nick Frey, a junior at Princeton, had a brand-new...

Meles Zenawi: An Impatient Ally.(The Last Word)(Interview)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Jason McLure We understand why the U.N. could not send a peacekeeping mission. But why not provide some funding to the African Union? Despite his poor human-rights record, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is Washington's...

Luck Of The Wary.(World Affairs; FINANCE)(Europe's banking industry)
April 21, 2008... Byline: William Underhill Caution helped a few Continental banks avoid subprime turmoil. There are plenty of headlines touting the latest European victims of the subprime crisis. Earlier this month the Swiss banking veteran Marcus...

Pilgrims' Progress.(World Affairs; ASIA)(Uighurs' unrest)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Ansfield; With Melinda Liu, Wang Zhenru and Mary Hennock in Beijing China offers its minorities wealth and worldliness--and that's just what's driving the ethnic protests. As turmoil erupted in Tibet and Xinjiang...

Don't Mention The War.(Arts; FLASHBACK)(Yasukuni)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Christian Caryl and Akiko Kashiwagi A new documentary on Japan's wartime past has provoked a conservative campaign to ban the film. Sooner or later, anyone who wants to understand Japan's tortured relationship with its past...

Lured Into Bondage.(World Affairs; ASIA)(Forced labor)
April 21, 2008... A growing back channel of global trade tricks millions into forced labor. Some of the world's leading computer makers don't want you to know about Local Technic Industry. It's a typical Malaysian company, one of many small makers of the...

A Korean 'New Deal'.(World Affairs)
April 21, 2008... Byline: B. J. Lee Lee Myung-bak aims to dig his nation to prosperity. But will his $16 billion canal turn into a black hole? It's a development project aimed to turn the tides--literally. Korea's Han River, which runs across Seoul,...

Till The Bitter End.(Point of View)(Zimbabwe election)
April 21, 2008... Mugabe may well succeed in holding onto power in the end. But the cost for Zimbabwe will be terrible. For a few brief days following last month's elections, it seemed the long night of Robert Mugabe's reign over Zimbabwe was ending....

My Big Fat Indian Wedding.(Top Shelf)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy During wedding season, it's impossible to cruise Marine Drive without getting held up in traffic. On July 29, 1981, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer got married in St. Paul's Cathedral before 3,500 invited...

Boomers' Little Secret.(Turning Point)(Alzheimer's disease)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Terry Pratchett; Pratchett is the author of the worldwide best-selling Discworld series of fantasy novels. We say 60 is the new 40, but we lie--and the truth becomes all too clear when early Alzheimer's hits. At first I blamed...

Welcome To Paradise.(Special Report)(Dubai and Abu Dhabi)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Christopher Dickey Oil revenue has made the desert--and plenty of other places--bloom with unexpected treasures for the tourist. Enter if you dare. Maybe because crude oil carries more than a whiff of hellfire and brimstone,...

Establishing A New Kind Of Modern.(Special Report)(Saudi Arabia)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy In Saudi Arabia, the conservative and the progressive don't feud. They find a way to coexist. Upon landing at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, it's instantly clear that Saudi Arabia is unlike any other...

Beyond The Glitz.(Special Report)(Dubai)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy Forget shopping. An edgy alternative culture is springing up in Dubai. The sunlight in Dubai is blinding, a layer of searing white that blankets the landscape, best encountered from behind deeply tinted glasses....

A Sophisticated State.(Special Report)(Qatar)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy Forgoing flash for substance, Qatar is channeling its oil wealth primarily into culture and education. The visionary architect I. M. Pei, who designed the Louvre's pyramid, the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan and...

Living (Almost) Like Bedouins.(Special Report)(Oman)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Sophie Grove Unlike its neighbors, Oman aims to lure tourists with its history and natural beauty. Oman's Bedouin have always eschewed the coast in favor of the arid desert. Here, pitched in what is the largest expanse of sand...

Following The Rules.(Special Report)(how women should behave when in the Middle East)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Sophie Grove Gulf travel presents a separate set of challenges for women. Tamara Kosta doesn't usually wear her wedding ring at home in London. But when she's in Oman her conjugal band sends an important message. "Most people...

Taking A High Flier.(Special Report)(booming airline industry in the Middle East)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Adam B. Kushner With big orders and pushy demands, Middle East carriers are upending the global airline industry. For the Gulf States, building a luxury tourism infrastructure is only half the battle. Then they need to get...

Escape From Caracas.(Special Report)(foreign exchange rate drives more Venezuelan to shop abroad)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Joseph Contreras High inflation is encouraging Venezuelans to spend their cash on foreign travel--while they still can. Elvira Sarmiento and her husband checked one suitcase each at Caracas's Maiquetia International Airport...

Building The New Links.(Special Report)(Trump International Golf Links)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Already popular with business tourists, Aberdeen now wants to attract the leisure kind. Sixteen kilometers north of Aberdeen, the pristine beaches are barren and the dune grass blows silently in the North Sea...

In The Land Of Borat.(Special Report)(Kazakhstan)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Jaime Cunningham and Christopher Flavelle Visitors to Kazakhstan will find beautiful scenery, great skiing, lively nightlife and even fancy hotels. Some people learned everything they know about Kazakhstan from Borat, the...

Stationary At Sea: Staying Where the Mighty Drills Have Fallen Silent.(Special Report)(oil rigs-cum-resorts)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Lauren Mack An oil rig holiday is a lot like a cruise, with great views and no seasickness. Plus off-deck diving. If visiting a locale made rich by oil isn't quite enough, travelers can get even closer to the source: an actual...

Definitely Not In A Bikini.(Special Report; Marketing)(East Asian countries luring tourists from Middle East)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Asians are thinking hard about how to lure visitors from the gulf. A thousand years ago, boatloads of Middle Easterners regularly headed to the islands around the South China Sea. They sought rare spices,...

Five Star And Far Out.(Special Report)(five star hotels in Central Asian countries)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Luxury hotels are cropping up in such remote locales as Azerbaijan and Inner Mongolia. Marc Hediger knows the luxury-travel experience very well. As a senior vice president for the high-end Shangri-La Hotels...

A Room With A Tie To Oilfields.(Special Report)(Jumeirah Essex House, The Carlyle, The St. Regis)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Sameer Reddy New York's old world hotels have modern day Petro-appeal. New York is home to some of the most storied hotels in the world, outposts of Old World charm in the New World's most famous urban jungle. All offer a...

Making Room For The Russians.(Special Report)
April 21, 2008... Byline: Owen Matthews They have piles of cash to spend but love to party to excess. Are they worth all the trouble? It's the small hours of the morning at Coco, a hot new nightclub in the Swiss ski resort of Verbier, and the champagne...