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...Francisco Monaldi, a Venezuelan oil expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute, said the timing of the arrest, months ahead of an election and with the future of US sanctions in doubt, could be a message...
...breath-stealing altitudes; but Punakha, a small village in its centre-west – sitting at around 1,250m above sea level, compared to Gangtey’s 3,000m – is unexpectedly lush, verdant with banana-tree groves and rice...
...The main opposition candidate, María Corina Machado, was banned from running, her selected replacement candidate was not allowed to register and some of her campaign team were arrested....
...The layered patios recall the rolling landscapes of the rice terraces in the island’s centre; there is an enormous, undulating infinity pool, bales and loungers, and a very grown-up menu that blends Japanese...
...Export restrictions from India coupled with extreme weather are threatening the global supply of rice, a staple commodity relied on by millions. A Big Read explains....
...Food historian Tarana Husain Khan is reviving lost Muslim culinary heritage in India, working with scientists to regrow extinct varieties of rice....
...Once a retreat of the royal family, its architecture and offerings nod to tradition (the whisper of sliding doors clad in rice paper is one of the only things breaking the silence; your feet on the tatami...
...Bite Me Café Plaza de la Beata María Ana de Jesús 2, 28045 Madrid Good for: A quick snack to go Not so good for: A private chat — a lot of the seating is communal FYI: Doughnuts can be ordered in advance...
...cook and hostess at her own homely restaurant, and a stalwart guardian of time-honoured local recipes such as pote — a stew of beans, meats and cabbage — maize-flour tortos and arroz con leche (Asturian rice...
...Yet hopes of a political opening were tempered when the government-backed Supreme Justice Tribunal suspended the results of the opposition primary, which was convincingly won by María Corina Machado....
...Other highlights include traditional Japanese folding fans and crayons created from rice wax, rice oil and surplus vegetables. awagami.com Inès Cross Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris It feels reductive...
...Food and drink: As at Raffles, the options here cut a wide swath, from Italian at Waterfall to sashimi at Nami to a sublime version of chicken rice — that staple of hawker centres — in the patrician Lobby...
...Designed as a family effort, with interiors by Ibuku, Elora Hardy’s architectural practice, it connects three trees on the Bambu Indah estate, which sits on the Sayan Ridge overlooking rice terraces, just...
...Dive into the Komodo Archipelago in Indonesia Nirjhara resort, hidden away in the rice terraces north of Tanah Lot on Bali’s south-west coast, has been on our radar for months....
...The rice dish of spinach and langoustines and the strawberry, cucumber and kefir dessert with black pepper were for me the standouts of her springtime repertoire....
...Maria Shollenbarger travelled as a guest of Tourism Australia (australia.com) and Kimpton Margot Sydney (kimptonmargotsydney.com)...
...Asian kitchen made up of community organiser Jenny Lau, supperclub host Cherry Tang, recipe developer and supperclub host Tiffany Chang, and cookbook author Emily Chung, as well as the singer and cook Maria...
...But its waterways are under pressure from illegal rice farming, and poaching is problematic....
...He initially responded to the protests on July 11 with subsidies to freeze the price of fuel at $3.95 per gallon and hold down the cost of basic food items, including canned tuna, rice and white bread....
...Now he and his white-haired wife were clambering up hills, walking down to the beach to see the sun reflected in the giant Walter De Maria granite balls and planning a trip to Teshima....
...Ultra-fine chains with a tiny trio of diamonds sit at the neck or wrist coupled with the single-stone chain rings framed in the house’s twisted rice-grain setting....
...Tabanan, a Unesco-designated site (and home to arguably the world’s most photogenic rice terraces) in Bali’s less-trod west, is one such place; it’s where Nirjhara quietly opened earlier this year....
...Pensioner Maria Flier said that almost all of her savings now go to groceries....
...It is generous: the portions of clean, fresh, fish-and-vegetable-based curries and rices are robust, the breakfasts vast and varied, the staff chatty and smiling....
...“This [deal] is prolonging the agony, we’ll suffer a default sooner or later,” senator María Inés Pilatti Vergara said on casting her vote against the agreement last week....
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