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...Or, if you’re looking to embed a bit in the local community, book a long weekend at Stevenson’s Cottage, an 1870s gold-rush cottage in Arrowtown with a sleek (if diminutive) new addition. rosewoodhotels.com...
...Where there was nowhere to sleep, Scott created magical Indian-style tented encampments in romantic ruins....
...‘Birdwatch’: The strength of Twitter’s Community Notes fact-checking feature is that it works through consensus, writes Jemima Kelly....
...Yields from rice and other staples have halved in many areas and the once largely self-sufficient Indian Ocean island now depends on international aid to combat a hunger crisis....
...Indian payday Marsalek and O’Sullivan’s closest collaboration was Wirecard’s most costly and controversial M&A transaction, the €340mn purchase of three Indian payments companies announced in October 2015...
...Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries spent almost $1bn in the first quarter of this year....
...It came as Fiji became the first Pacific Island nation to join the US’s new Asian trade initiative....
...Students are now treated as paying “consumers” who have to be pacified, rather than members of an intellectual community, she says....
...Who Engel & Völkers Mahé, Seychelles, $11m Where On Mahé, the largest of the Seychelles’ islands, situated off east Africa in the Indian Ocean; well connected by flights to Africa, Asia, Australia and...
...Concerned that mass tourism would undermine their unique cultural relationship with the leopards, the Rabari want the area designated a “community reserve”, only the second in India, which would ensure regulation...
...Quilalea Island lies within a protected marine reserve, and the coral reef, just 20 metres offshore, offers “the most incredible snorkelling and scuba diving to be found anywhere in the Indian Ocean”, says...
...A Unesco Biosphere Reserve, “Holy Spirit” is easy enough to reach by boat from La Paz, the low-key harbour town that has become a mecca for sport fishing and eco-tourism....
...Forky’s menu is designed by Gkontas’s business partner Petros Pitsilis, a childhood friend and the owner of a popular bar and restaurant on the Aegean island of Mykonos....
...More emerging surf spots Lakshadweep Islands, India When professional surfer Dave Rastavich was filmed riding two huge waves in the Lakshadweep archipelago for the 2010 film Castles in the Sky, he put Indian...
...The Indian labourers who started building the Kenya-Uganda Railway in 1895 faced disease, harsh terrain and the famous man-eaters of Tsavo, a pair of maneless male lions that stalked campsites at night,...
...Until recently they were thriving coastal communities....
...Not surprisingly, lawyers in the environmental community do not agree with activists such as Mr Horner....
...Madagascar is holding its first presidential election since a 2009 coup plunged the mineral-rich Indian Ocean island into a prolonged political and financial crisis....
...for this novel about a poor community facing a series of natural disasters....
...Fascinating and funny, it has been as well-received by Indian as western reviewers. … Gironimo!...
...Kashmir and Ladakh “Indians refer to Ladakh as their best-kept secret,” says Tom Marchant of Black Tomato....
...In recent weeks the government has rowed back on the proposal, putting the onus on authorities, and offering general assurances to the investor community that Delhi will do right by them....
...Clayoquot is at the heart of a Unesco World Biosphere Reserve just an hour’s floatplane journey from Vancouver....
...Hong Kong, China Golden Valley Mansion is on Hong Kong island’s Mid-Levels West, a traditional safe haven for investors in recent years....
...The waters between the Chinese island of Hainan in the north and the island of Borneo in the south hold rich oil and gas reserves and vital sea lanes for energy imports of most East Asian nations....
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