Cambodia’s Coast of Utopia
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- Cambodia’s Coast of Utopia
- HRH Princess Ubonrat graces the 2007 World Travel Market in London +…
- As More Take a Chance n Fleeing North Korea Routes for All Budgets
- Southeast Asian ministers adopt landmark charter
- Doc Holiday
- Spa with a view
Cambodia’s Coast of Utopia
New York Times – Nov 18, 2007
Like Dorothy waking up in z she looks around to get her bearings. There are no signs no landmarks just a glimmering ocean an empty white-sand beach and the clear blue sky… You know Thailand like 10 years ago?”Cambodia like 80 years ago is just a couple of hours’ drive along the coast in Kep where the French colonialists established a beach retreat during their rule here in the first half of the 20th century. They built mansions on the hillsides to catch the gulf breezes and as in Sihanoukville the villas’ skeletal remains and shot-up facades are an eerie reminder of the past. Those houses are now being turned into luxury residences and hotels and new compounds like the colonial La Villa de Monsieur Thomas and the modernist Knai Bang Chatt demonstrate what the future of high-end tourism on the Cambodian coast might look like. Although the beach in Kep is less spectacular than those around Sihanoukville the town has a particularly appealing slow-paced charm. There’s not a lot to do but relax go down to the waterfront to eat the famed local crab (grown exceptionally tasty by their life spans in the nearby mangrove swamps) and explore the abandoned old villa of Sihanouk on a promontory overlooking the town which has been left to mischievous monkeys. From Kep you can also take a day trip slightly inland to the town of Kampot with its own yellow-and-white French colonial buildings and riverside cafes and the Bokor Hill Station. Built by the French in 1922 at 3200 feet Bokor has a Catholic church a casino a school and other buildings all completely abandoned since 1972.
HRH Princess Ubonrat graces the 2007 World Travel Market in London +…
nationmultimedia.com – Nov 18, 2007
It also has some wonderful unspoilt beaches. Thai Airways provided enough of the mauve coloured Thai orchid to fill a flower show… A good time was had by all ! We all had to get up early the next day to go back to work at the exhibition. Yet the welcome was just as warm on the Thai Airways stand “Thank you Selena and the crew!”.
As More Take a Chance n Fleeing North Korea Routes for All Budgets
Washington Post – Nov 18, 2007
Given enough money the brokers say they can now get just about anyone out of the dictatorial Stalinist state that human rights activists call the world’s largest prison. A low-budget escape through… But he continues to wrestle with the guilt and longing he feels for the wife and two sons he abandoned. Two years ago he said he paid $4800 to a broker to bring him face to face with one of his lost sons who is now 58. They met for three days and two nights in a hotel on the Chinese side of the border. At the end Lee said his son declined to defect — and returned home to his wife and children. Before his son left Lee said he gave him $1700 in cash a digital camera and some clothes — but Lee later learned that his son lost it all while swimming across the Tumen River that separates China from North Korea. So Lee has raised $3250 for brokers who promised him they will again contact his family. This month he said they hired agents who are already out searching.
Southeast Asian ministers adopt landmark charter
Forbes – Nov 18, 2007
The charter however commits ASEAN members ‘to strengthen democracy enhance good governance and the rule of law and to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms. ‘ It also requires members to keep the region free of nuclear weapons ease poverty protect the environment and work toward an integrated market that allows for free flow of goods services investments and professionals. ASEAN was originally formed as an anti-communist alliance at the height of the Cold War with founding members Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand the Philippines. Later joined by Brunei Cambodia Laos Myanmar and Vietnam the bloc is a now a disparate collection of budding democracies monarchies socialist regimes and a military dictatorship. Myanmar has grabbed the international spotlight at the Singapore talks and Prime Minister Thein Sein faces a grilling over the military state’s violent campaign to suppress dissent which left at least 15 dead. UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari is scheduled to brief leaders of ASEAN as well as Australia China India Japan New Zealand and South Korea on the results of his two visits to Myanmar since the crackdown. However a Southeast Asian official told AFP that the junta was mounting a campaign to derail Wednesday’s discussions… But what can they do? It has been set and he has accepted the invitation’ the official said Sunday. Yeo who has said the leaders will have ‘critical’ talks with Thein Sein at a dinner Monday insisted the Gambari briefing would go ahead and that regional leaders were ‘looking forward to him coming’. Singapore has a reputation as one of the safest places in the world but it has mounted an intense security campaign centred on the Shangri-La hotel the main summit venue which bristled Monday with police and paramilitary Gurkhas. Beyond the situation in Myanmar leaders will approve a blueprint for a common market embracing the region’s nearly 570 million people by 2015 — a target which faces significant hurdles. All rights reserved. The copying republication or redistribution of Thomson Financial News Content including by framing or similar means is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Financial News.
Doc Holiday
New York Times – Nov 18, 2007
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Spa with a view
๒ดà¸à¸° ๒à¸à¸à¸±à¹à¸ – Nov 18, 2007
Tucked away on the 11 th floor of the newly opened Cape Racha a hotel and serviced apartment complex and the latest addition to the Cape Hotel Group the Cape Spa offers a range of treatments from simple traditional Thai massage skin detoxification and body scrubs to aromatic steaming and facial delicacy treatments. It's easy on the eyes with a mix of traditional Thai and modern design and floor-to-ceiling offering stunning views over the Gulf of Thailand. There's an open room for foot massages four rooms for traditional Thai massages and another three rooms equipped with jacuzzi and steam bath for aroma massages. Visitors begin with a consultation to pinpoint their needs and preferred approaches then the therapists tailor the programme to match. "Most of our customers are expatriates and local executives working in the Eastern seaboard area… Tucked away on the 11 th floor of the newly opened Cape Racha a hotel and serviced apartment complex and the latest addition to the Cape Hotel Group the Cape Spa offers a range of treatments from simple traditional Thai massage skin detoxification and body scrubs to aromatic steaming and facial delicacy treatments. It's easy on the eyes with a mix of traditional Thai and modern design and floor-to-ceiling offering stunning views over the Gulf of Thailand. There's an open room for foot massages four rooms for traditional Thai massages and another three rooms equipped with jacuzzi and steam bath for aroma massages. Visitors begin with a consultation to pinpoint their needs and preferred approaches then the therapists tailor the programme to match. "Most of our customers are expatriates and local executives working in the Eastern seaboard area. Half are Japanese both men and women" says spa supervisor Thanjira Jakkaew.