Hints and tips:
...For late-night cocktails, one cannot do better than Jigger and Pony, currently 12th (and the highest-ranked Singapore bar) on The World’s Best Bars list....
...Compounding Moon’s predicament is that his two immediate predecessors, Park and Lee Myung-bak, are also behind bars for bribery and corruption. Their supporters have also sought pardons....
...Sweating, exhausted from unpacking and hungry, we fell upon their kong bak pau (steamed buns with braised pork in soy sauce) and falafel pita sandwich and thought it was one of the best meals we had ever...
...— For a nightcap, go toD.Bespoke, a cosy cocktail bar tucked away in Chinatown, which has some incredibly experienced bartenders....
...Women, endowed with weaker constitutions, would need them “Boil’d, Bak’d, Pickl’d, or otherwise disguis’d, variously accommodated by skilful Cooks, to render them grateful to the more feminine Palat”....
...“I think South Korea raised the bar too high,” he says. “It is implausible for the North Korean government to get rid of these weapons of mass destruction altogether.”...
...In the absence of wine bars and nightclubs, the government has resorted to organising dating events for lonely public servants....
...Hanoch Sheinman, a law professor at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, sent an email to his second-year students last week to reassure them that a new date for their final exam would be set because of the disruption...
...Park Geun-hye, president since February, has promised to abandon the practice of her predecessor Lee Myung-bak, who pardoned several business leaders on the basis of their importance to the economy....
...Her 31-year-old daughter plans to open a beer bar, while her son, 28, works for a computer company. “In North Korea, when people graduate, they get dispatched to work,” Park says....
...Still overnight hotel stays this winter are forecast to drop by 2.6 per cent this season, with demand from foreigners falling 4.2 per cent, says the BAK Basel forecasting group....
...The beating was reminiscent of the case of the chairman of Hanwha, an explosives and chemicals conglomerate, who beat bar staff with a steel pipe but was later pardoned by the president....
...Yet president Lee Myung-bak is in no mood to waver, having distanced himself from previous regimes’ “sunshine policy” of paternalistic appeasement. Disarm, then we talk....
...Despite tough rhetoric, Lee Myung-bak pardoned Lee Kun-hee last year so he could return to Samsung....
...North Korea’s ban on all ties could also bar South Korean aircraft from North Korean airspace, adding fuel cost and time to many international flights....
...His government forged a trade deal with Washington, that has run into trouble under his successor, Lee Myung-bak....
...The streets are packed with a raucous crowd, mostly young, hitting the espresso bars....
...The chairman of Hanwha enjoyed the same outcome after he was found guilty of assaulting some young men with an iron bar....
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