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Sydney Morning Herald – Sep 30, 2007
It’s a good place torelax with music throughout the day including jazz mostevenings. ther Peninsula restaurants include Thiptara an outdoorriverside Thai restaurant of raised teak platforms in lushvegetation the Mei Jang a Cantonese and Jesters a contemporaryjoint serving Pacific Rim cuisine. Last December the hotel opened the Peninsula Spa in atraditional Thai setting. The decor and treatments combine withwell thought out state-of-the-art facilities to take the spaexperience to new levels. Thailand takes spa and massage treatmentsvery seriously so developing a new luxury spa here was an ambitiousundertaking. The Peninsula combined with ESPA a privately-ownedBritish company to develop a spa concept that would be carriedthrough the whole Peninsula group. The spa offers a sense of space and peacefulness and it iscleverly designed to gradually transport you from modern hotel totraditional retreat by shifts in design and decor.
The Sunday Times
Asiane – Sep 30, 2007
He would always get her to help out in the kitchen and that was how her interest in cooking started. It was only natural that Mrs Leong 37 pursued her culinary interest. She later studied at the Hotel & Tourism Institution Thailand in Bangkok. She started working in Novotel Bangkok hotel in Siam Square when it opened in 1988 and that was where she met Singaporean chef Sam Leong who is now corporate chef and director of kitchens of the Tung Lok group here. He was then an assistant chef at the hotel. They married in 1990 and she came to Singapore about 14 years ago. She started giving culinary classes last year at the request of friends who liked what she cooked.
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guardian.co.uk – Sep 30, 2007
These are floating dive hotels which allow you to move around unconstrained by roads beaches or hotels. You just go where the diving is good and you can reach areas hundreds of miles from airports. I think there are between 100 and 200 of them around the world. They can be pretty rough and ready but given that 70 per cent of the planet is covered with water it strikes me as the perfect type of hotel. My most memorable meal was in… She is Italian and when I’m away I always miss eating Italian food as a family. ne problem with dive boats is that the chefs try to cater to international tastes. n one boat in Thailand the chef boasted of his ability to cook burger and chips when what we craved was good Thai curry. My last trip was to.
Traveling blues | medical bumrungrad care hospitals hospital -…
CRegister – Sep 30, 2007
Middle Eastern families whooshed into the lobby from Bumrungrad-provided limousines and into private rooms. Young Thai Bumrungrad employees welcomed Japanese patients with a bow and a welcome present like hotel greeters. ther Thai hospitals desperately try to keep pace installing hotel-like rooms and upscale restaurants and developing specialties such as sex-change operations. Competitors in Singapore India Hungary Argentina Turkey Brazil Costa Rica the Philippines South Africa and Dubai have also entered the medical tourism market often backed by intense government promotion of medical tourism. (Singapore hopes to attract one million medical travelers by 2012. )Many of these hospitals compete not only on the quality of care but also on other amenities. The Apollo hospital in Chennai has a gym and yoga studio and Singapore has launched a series of “medi-spas” which mix medical treatments and spa services like massage or facials.
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VietNamNet Bridge – Sep 30, 2007
5 billion USD and consumer goods only 1. Vietnam ? good destination for Thai investors Among ASEAN countries Vietnam is a spotlight destination for Thai investors Wittaya Supatanakul Bangkok Bank’s adviser on Vietnam has said. According to Wittaya who used to work in Vietnam as a general director of the Bangkok Bank?s branch in Ho Chi Minh City in the eye of Thai investors Vietnam is more attractive than other ASEAN nations at many aspects. Vietnam has a low but highly skilled labour force while the socio-political situation in the country is stable the bank adviser said in his recent articles on the Bangkok Post. Moreover over the past years Vietnam?s economic growth rate is high and the country really welcomes foreign investors he stressed. Thai investors could pour their money into the tourist industry in Vietnam where many landscapes need investment to develop Wittaya said… The figures which represent year-on-year increases of 80 percent and 40 percent in terms of the number of licensed projects and their value bring the capital city to the second place among the largest FDI attractors of the country behind the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. f the total value 940 million USD came from 210 newly licensed projects. Projects of note include a 500 million USD hotel-trade-office-apartment complex an 80 million USD five-star hotel and a 50 million USD residential area.
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