The News Review:

- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Enhances nline Recruiting Tool
- Foreigners still find Chennai safe
- Back from devastation of Myanmar
- Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Enhances nline Recruiting Tool
Hospitality Net – May 30, 2008
In the past few months Westin signed deals for five new properties and Aloft executed deals for three new properties. Elsewhere in Asia-Pacific Starwood?s brands are growing their footprint in Thailand Vietnam Malaysia Indonesia Macau Japan and New Zealand. In Thailand alone Starwood will debut 11 new hotels in the next three years including three Le Meridien hotels in Bangkok Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai coming onboard this year. In Malaysia the Luxury Collection brand is also reinvigorated upon the completion of a USD12 million renovation of Hotel Imperial Kuala Lumpur this year which included a major facelift of its restaurants and guestrooms. About Starwood Hotels & Resorts | Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 890 properties in more than 100 countries and 145000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood® Hotels is a fully integrated owner operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St.

Foreigners still find Chennai safe
Times of India – May 30, 2008
And this is what thetourists feel too even after hearing about the unfortunate experience thatKelly Baker a US citizen had after a party at a star hotel in the city. Samantha Jones a tourist fromLondon was shocked to know about the Baker incident and said “You have to becareful. I had a drink at club in a hotel yesterday but ensured that I just hadone and I was not alone. Samanthawhile shopping at a mall said “I have been in this mall for the past one hourbut nothing untoward has happened tome. However it is alwaysbetter for the tourists to be careful. Samantha says “It is quite difficult todefine whether a city is safe or not. Harrassments and crime can happenanywhere… Harrassments and crime can happenanywhere. It is a matter of time and place. It will not make much differencewhen whether you are in India Philippines or Thailand. I have visited Delhibefore arriving in Chennai. There is not much difference in the way peoplebehave. Mostly foreignersfind the city safe and have never felt paranoid about stepping out of theirhotel rooms. Anita Jonsdottiran Icelander living in the city for the last three years had good things tosay about Chennai.

Back from devastation of Myanmar
stuff.co.nz – May 30, 2008
The continued and unnerving high-pitched whistle of the wind carried on for the next 12 hours. "With daylight we were able to see the devastation – every tall tree including solid mango was knocked over except for the flexible coconut palms. "We were in the embassy area and our four star hotel only lost six windows but the roads outside were littered with satellite dishes and iron roofing and the beautiful Kandawgyi Gardens a remnant of British rule were flattened. "But the real damage was to the low-lying rice-growing area of the Irrawaddy Delta. Accompanied by sea surges wind ripped through bamboo and thatch houses. People mainly died through being washed away and drowning. With temperatures in the low 30s bodies lay around on the delta unburied… "And 90 percent did. They were used to dealing with troubled times. "ur area being in that part of the city was one of the first to get power while overseas aid did start to come through via Thailand and Bangladesh. "The situation for the Kiwi team was tolerable but when Mr Armstrong was taken to preach at a suburban church he saw the real city destruction with power lines down and one lane of the road only open cleared by the local people some with nasty cuts from flying glass. n the whole Mr Armstrong prefers to keep his thoughts on the generals who control Myanmar the role of the military and their suppression of the popular uprising of 2007 to himself. "The army – some of them just boys – were using machetes to clear away trees – they didn’t even have a chainsaw and were looking bewildered and ill-equipped for a disaster. "There was no panic buying although there were queues for roofing iron and not much looting – people looked bewildered shell-shocked but there was an impression of resilience and courage.

Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Daily Times – May 30, 2008
It could be in Iraq Indonesia’s Bali southern Thailand or like last weekend in New Delhi. But as the blasts in the Indian capital reinforced life quickly gets back to normal – at least in Asia. At least 59 people were killed in bomb blasts in Delhi bazaars on Saturday evening but by Sunday itself shops in these areas had re-stocked and re-opened. Most did good business. Teenagers were playing cricket as usual on the city’s lawns the day after the bombs and Delhi’s many parks were full of early morning walkers… Those bombs just over a year after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States caused a huge exodus of tourists and significantly hurt the country’s economy. But there were hardly any hotel cancellations this year. And despite widespread anger at the bomb attacks Balinese seem determined that life will go on. Peter Semone vice president of the Pacific Asia Travel Association said that following a string of bombings around the world in recent years tourists had become more resilient. “Is it going to affect Bali tourism? It will be naive to say it will not” he said earlier this month. “(But) I think we live in a new (situation).

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