Mumbai, June 8 (IANS) Mumbai will have the world’s tallest residential building, nearly half a km in height, by 2014, providing an unhindered view of the city from all sides. City-based realty group Lodha Developers will collaborate with two New York-based firms to build an over 450 metre residential tower at Worli in south-central Mumbai at a cost of Rs.2,000 crore ($424.67 million), the company said here Tuesday.
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Mumbai Worlds’ Tallest Building by 2014
The Hanoi’s old quarter is known for small alleys of less than 1m wide and very long. Each alley is the home to a dozen of families who live in tight space where lacks of air and sunlight. When asked why local people don’t want to escape that life, most said that the living space is very cramped but they can easily earn a living.
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Cramped life in Hanoi’s old quarter – VIETNAM IN PHOTOS
Banyan Tree Private Collection , Asia’s first asset-backed destination club offering perpetual and transferable membership, is pleased to announce the addition of two new spectacular “Own Villa “inclusions – a three-bedroom jet pool villa at the Banyan Tree Lijiang, China; and a two-bedroom pool villa at the Banyan Tree Phuket – further expanding its current portfolio of luxury properties worldwide.
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Banyan Tree expands in Asia
When Frank Zappa was a teenager, he became obsessed with the daring music of Edgard Varèse. He listened to an album with the works of the European composer over and over, even though he didn’t understand the technical aspects. “I didn’t know what timbre was,” he wrote in a 1971 magazine piece titled “The Idol
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Ojai Music Festival: A look at Frank Zappa’s classical side
No one wants to think about the workplace during a hard-earned vacation, but a new exhibit opening next month at the University of Florida’s Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville could turn that around. “America at Work: Art and Propaganda in the Early 20th Century” features 30 bold and colorful lithographs made by Chicago-based Mather
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Florida’s Harn Museum of Art to display vintage posters meant to motivate workers
The calendar says Memorial Day weekend, but it sure feels like Christmas at Knott’s Berry Farm. “Snoopy’s Starlight Spectacular” nighttime light show starts Saturday and will run every night the Buena Park theme park is open after 8 p.m
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Snoopy light show debuts Saturday night at Knott’s Berry Farm
Even though it’s nowhere near the banks of the Mighty Mississippi, the California town of Victorville will celebrate one of Mark Twain’s best-loved characters June 18 to 20 during the Huck Finn Jubilee. This year marks both the 175th anniversary of the author’s birth and the 125th anniversary of the publication of “The Adventures of Huckleberry
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Get your fishin’ pole: Huck Finn Jubilee opens June 18 in Victorville
Tiffany lovers take note: It’s time to hit the road. A new show of more than 170 glass works and decorative objects created by Louis Comfort Tiffany will open Saturday at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, which just added a $150-million wing. In addition to the show, the museum’s website offers a detailed
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Virginia: ‘Color and Light’ displays range of Louis Tiffany
Women have left an indelible imprint on Asilomar, the Arts and Crafts lodge complex that sits on 107 acres of California state parkland overlooking the ocean. Four women, including Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of publishing pioneer William Randolph Hearst), who donated the land for a YWCA conference site and hired architect Julia Morgan (the Hearst
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Pacific Grove deal: Get a state parks day pass and lunch in Asilomar
Feel like puzzling your way around Florence, Rome or Venice this summer? I’m not talking about a frustrating day with a map of the city but, rather, embarking on a scavenger hunt as part of new city tours offered by Select Italy.
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Italy: Hop a gondola and go on a scavenger hunt on ‘Made Easy’ city tours
ED NOTE: Check out my Photo Gallery of Sapa http://www.pbase.com/ckuhn55/sapa Charming waterfalls in Sapa Challenging times for Sapa Sapa’s terraced fields suggested for world heritage recognition The transplanting season is the most beautiful in Sapa, so photographers and tourists have flocked to this mountainous area. Source: Dan Tri
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Sapa I miss you
Vietnamese photos win at FIAP Commemorating the ancestors of photography Werewolf by Xuan Thang. Viet Van carried of the first prize for environment photos with “Sand Story 4” while Nguyen Xuan Thang won first prize for liberal photos with “Werewolf”. The competition drew 7407 photos from 114 countries
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Vietnamese photographers take first prizes at Cyprus
( Arab-Americans expressed delight Monday, a day after 24-year-old Lebanese-American Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA. “For once, we’re talking about beauty and not terror,” said Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab-American News, in Dearborn, Michigan, who knows Fakih and her family. He and about 150 other Arab-Americans watched the pageant unfold on a 100-inch television screen at La Pita Restaurant in Dearborn, which was packed with her friends.
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24-year-old Lebanese-American Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA.
Indian zoo to put its stuffed dead animals on display Mumbai zoo hopes its stuffed exhibits will keep drawing the crowds The only zoo in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) plans to stuff its animals after their deaths and put them on show in a museum, officials say. The move follows a ban by India’s central zoo authority on new animals being kept in confined spaces.
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Battambang develops THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010 15:00 SOEUN SAY T he owner of a US$29 million residential development project in Battambang is expected to complete the first of its three phases by early 2011, but the completion date for the whole project hangs in the balance as the construction sector struggles to recover from the global financial crisis.
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Battambang Develops-$29 million residential development
More and more cafés, restaurants, and boutiques are opening below street level in the southern metropolis – testimony to the high demand for downtown retail space, according to the market newspaper, Saigon Tiep Thi. Tenants vie for top retail space High-end leases demarcate Saigon’s “well-known brand” streets Retail market and three most important things The upscale commercial real estate agency CBRE Vietnam says that in HCMC, retail space in prime downtown locations is nearly fully occupied and demand remains high though rents have been increasing day by day
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Below street level cafe’s, restaurants, boutiques in high demand
Yen Tu Festival Situated within the immense arched mountain range of north-eastern Vietnam, Yen Tu Mountain in northern coastal Quang Ninh Province bears at its peak the Dong Pagoda: at an altitude of 1,068m above sea level. The beauty of Yen Tu consists in the majesty of its mountains mingling with the ancient and solemn quietness of its pagodas, shrines and towers. Yen Tu has been a centre of Buddhism for many centuries, and is the starting point of the Buddhist sect of Truc Lam.
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Yen Tu Festival
A picture taken on June 30, 1951 shows US Actor Errol Flynn given a lesson in the technique of attaching a leader to a fishing line by his son Sean during holidays at Lake Mead, near Las Vegas. Forensic tests will be conducted on what could be the remains of the war-photographer son of film legend Errol Flynn, who disappeared 40 years ago, a US Embassy official said on March 29, 2010.
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Mystery of Errol Flynn’s son’s disappearance may be solved with Cambodian bone find
Cambodia has reported that it had sent more than 50,000 Cambodians to work abroad, all of them in Asian countries. The report filed by Ministry of Labor, a copy of which seen Monday, showed that by the end of March as many as 51,647 Cambodians were working in Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. Among them, 27,152 were working in Malaysia and followed by 16, 197 in Thailand, 8,201 in South Korea and 97 in Japan
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The term “travel scam” covers a wide spectrum of potential trickery, from mild deceptions to outright fraud. The worst, of course, is the fraud, where the operator has no intention of delivering anything whatsoever. More common are semi-frauds, where the operator makes exaggerated claims, but delivers to enough persistent consumers to deter law enforcement
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Five worst travel scams