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“The growing demand presents us with tremendous opportunities with the demand for travel infrastructure, including hotels. We continue to see growth opportunities and potential even during this time” said Neo.

Patricia Neo, senior director of Customer Contact Centre for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Asia Pacific, said Starwood was launching five-star Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & Spa located along Tran Phu Boulevard in Nha Trang in November.

“Besides the international, the local market is an important market for us. 80% of the tourist arrivals to Nha Trang are domestic, so we will be offering a special promotion that will help local residents experience the services of the new Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & Spa and enjoy the fantastic view of the bay”, Neo said recently in Hanoi.

“We are also actively working on potential projects in HCMC, Dalat and Danang. When Sheraton Nha Trang joins the Starwood family in Q4 of this year, it will give us presence in all of north,Replica Purses, south and central Vietnam, said Neo.

The U.S. hotel manager is operating two hotels in Vietnam, namely Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers and Sheraton Hanoi Hotel. The three hotels and resorts under development are part of the long-term business strategy of Starwood in Vietnam’s hospitality market.

Starwood expanding high-end hotels chain in Vietnam Accoding to VietNamNet/SGT

American’s Starwood Hotels & Resorts is planning to open three new high-end hotels and resorts in well-known tourist destinations in Vietnam in the next three years.

“We’re planning ahead for the recovery so we can come out of the gate fast, ahead of the competition. We also believe that today’s reduced travel budgets, cancelled meetings and staycations are tomorrow’s pent up demand”.

Neo said the growth and stability of the Vietnam market in relation to other Southeast Asian nations were bringing opportunities in expanding Starwood brands to key destinations across Vietnam.

Starwood said Cam Ranh Bay – a protected inlet off the Eastern Sea situated between Phan Rang and Nha Trang and about 290 kilometers northeast of HCMC – would help lure both high-end domestic and international travelers to the Westin.

The 30-story hotel will be the tallest building in the coastal city and all of its 284 guest rooms will enjoy breathtaking views of the bay.

Another Starwood outlet – Sheraton Hoi An Resort & Spa – is also scheduled to open in 2011, with 242 rooms which is situated in a new destination along Vietnam’s popular China Beach and will offer exclusive beach access to the resort’s guests.

Neo told the Daily that the hotel management group would open Westin Resort & Spa, Cam Ranh in Nha Trang in 2012, featuring 330 rooms and a range of Westin products and services including Westin Heavenly Bed, Westin Workout and Heavenly Spa.

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Unfortunately that means I won’t be able to attend either the screening of Highcore, which is a documentary about one guy’s attempt to break the high score record for Asteroids, which means he has to one credit the machine for about 56 hours.

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BTW, I was going to pass a heads up about all this stuff last night, which would have been more timely and useful I realize, but I was super tired when I got home last night. And since I’m out of time, I’ll have to talk about being interviewed by a UK game journalist yesterday morning about my childhood infatuation with the Sega Genesis, as well as seeing Drawing Restraint 9, that new Matthew Barney/Bjork thing, next time.

The awesomest part about living in New York City is that there’s always a ton of stuff to. But the biggest problem ends up being there no being enough time to do it all…

Then I’m heading back into Manhattan for the NY Shitty Punk Rock CD release party to check out BDF and Blackout Shoppers and about 30 other local area punk bands.

At least I’ll be around the corner from the The Tank, which is where BENT 2006, the International Circuit Bending Festival, is taking place. If there’s anything that’s possible cooler than hearing music being created from Game Boys, then it has to be broken toys.

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Boiling Water Spikes Bisphenol A Levels : TreeHugger
We have been saying for a while that polycarbonates bottles can leach Bisphenol A, a gender bender and that it was time to ditch them; now a new University of Cincinnati study shows that the temperature of the liquid inside has the most impact on how much BPA is released.

The finding suggests that parents sterilizing polycarbonate baby bottles by heating them in water or in a microwave may be inadvertently increasing the amount of the estrogen-mimicking chemical leaching from the containers. It also indicates hikers who use the bottles as a thermos to store hot tea or liquids may be doing the same.”

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Second, we’re so addicted to plastic bags that we don’t notice it anymore. So here’s artist/photographer Chris Jordan reminding us of our plastic bags consumption.

Re: Paper or Plastic? Neither!

In anticipation of the plastic shopping bag tax here in Seattle,Replica Purses, I just bought two re-usable bags from ChicoBag for our household use. The plastic shopping bags tax is still a proposal, but I’m looking forward to its approval and implementation next year. So I might as well change my habits early.

First, there’s already a successful precedent in Ireland.

(Via ~C4Chaos)

Why am I confident that the proposal will pass here in the Emerald City?

And third, if China is doing it, what’s our excuse?

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Continue reading and check out the photo here. Brilliant idea.

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H is for Humanity, Habitats, Health, Habitats, and HIPPO! Project H, an organization that promotes,Replica Purses, inspires, and delivers humanitarian product design, is funding 50 Hippo Rollers for a series of 17 villages in Kgautswane in Northeastern South Africa. Hippo Rollers, if you haven???t seen them before, they are amazing barrel devices that allow the millions whose livelihoods depend on the daily fetching of water to more safely and efficiently access and transport water.

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Nothig Disney does surprises me anymore. Here is a link to an article by the BBC. Here is an article on MSNBC that states:
Conservationists have long condemned the eating of shark fin because of overfishing and the brutal way in which it is harvested. Critics say many fisherman simply hack off the fins and throw the dying shark back into the sea

Hong Kong Disney will feature shark fin soup despite environmental devastation
Despite the fact that millions of sharks are killed every year, by cutting off their fins and dropping the still-alive body back in the sea, leading to their inevitable extinction, Disney will have sharkfin soup on its menu in its new Hong Kong theme park.
Greenpeace and the Worldwide Fund for Nature asked Hong Kong Disneyland to take shark fin soup off the menu after the theme park announced last week the delicacy would be served at wedding banquets and other special events…

But Disney says that while it takes the environment very seriously, the company is equally sensitive to local cultures and the dish is a key part of Chinese banquets.

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(Via BoingBoing.)

What a terrible waste. About as ridiculously stupid as shooting Buffalo from a train and leaving them to rot… Only it is happening today!

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Sa laki raw ng perang winidraw ni Manny Pacquiao pagkatapos ng eleksyon,Prada Bags, halos naubusan raw ng pera ang tatlong bangko sa General Santos City.

Kamuntik lang daw mag-bank run sa dalawang bangko ng malaman ng ibang depositor na inalis na ni Pacquiao ang pera niya sa mga bangko na yun.

Sa balita na lumabas sa Business Mirror at ABS-CBN online, sinabi na kinuwenta ni Pacquiao ang kanyang ginastos sa election at umambot raw sa P140 milyon.

Kahit pinayuhan siya ng maraming kaibigan na huwag pumasok sa pulitika, tumakbo si Pacquiao para kongresista sa General Santos City sa South Cotabato noong nakaraang eleksyon laban kay Darlene Antonino. Talo.

Sinabi doon sa artikulo, naiinis raw si Pacquiao dahil ang usapan daw ay partido ang gagastos sa kanyang pagkakandidato laban kay Antonino na naging aktibo sa impeachment complaint laban kay Gloria Arroyo. Sinabihan siya na magpaluwal muna ng gastos sa kampanya at saka na siya bayaran.

Mga ilang araw daw bago mag-eleksyon at mukha na ngang tagilid siya kay Antonino, tumawag raw si Pacquiao sa Manila at hinihingi na ang pinangakong pera para sa kanyang kampanya. Bigla raw naputol ang linya. Tawag daw ng tawag si Pacquiao ngunit hindi na makontak ang kanyang kausap.

Nainis raw si Pacquaio kaya kinuha lahat na pera doon sa tatlong bangko pagkatapos ng eleksyon at pumunta sa Amerika para magmuni-muni sa kanyang kinabukasan.

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Si Xanadu, isang bisita rin doon sa king blog ay naglista ng maraming pangalan ng mga taong nagbuyo kay Pacquaio tumakbo laban kay Darlene. Nandiyan si Gloria Arroyo, Mike Arroyo, Chavit Singson, Lito Atienza,Marc Jacobs replica Handbags, Lito Lapid. At Oscar de la Hoya.

Sabi ni Xanadu, nagalit raw si de la Hoya sa hindi pagtupad ni Pacquaio sa pinirmahang kontrata kaya para makaganti, binola-bola niya si Pacquaio na pumasok sa pulitika. Siyempre biro lang yun.

Sigurado mas nasaktan si Pacquaio sa panloloko sa kanya kaysa yung pagkatalo niya.

Mayroon nga daw dalawang pa-lider lider na kinuntrata ni Pacquiao para sa kanyang kumpanya. Ang usapan, bayaran sila ng tig-kalahating milyon. Nang nabigay na ang down payment, hindi na nagtrabaho. Nalaman na lang ni Pacquiao kinalaunan nandoon pala sa kampo ni Antonino nagta-trabaho.

Mabuti lang marami pang milyones si Pacquaio.

Leksyon ito kay Pacquaio para huwag siyang basta maniniwala sa mga taong gustong gamitin siya sa mga bagay na masama. Binigyan siya ng Panginoon ng talento sa boksing. Sa pamamagitan nun, naging sikat at mayaman siya.

Gamitin niya yun para tulungan ang mahihirap at isulong ang katotohanan at hustisya. Huwag siya magpagamit sa mandaraya katulad ni Gloria Arroyo.

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The passing away of President Cory three weeks ago and last Friday’s 26th death anniversary of her husband, Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., brought back to mind the events of February 1986 when the world stood in awe as Filipinos linked arms, armed only with prayers and faith, to restore democracy in the country.

Yesterday, we were yet reminded of that glorious February with the news of the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the last surviving son of America’s political royalty.

Precious L. Javier, widow of the late Evelio Javier, the former Antique governor whose murder helped spark the outrage that led to the 1986 People Power, sent me the U.S. Congressional record of February 19, 1986 when American senators passed a resolution expressing their deep concern over the massive fraud that attended the Feb. 7, 1986 snap presidential elections.

Precious said that the American senator’s son, Ted Kennedy, Jr. and his cousin William Smith, were in Antique during the 1986 snap elections.

She said, “ Evelio had asked foreign correspondents to come to Antique as people were being terrorized by armed goons. Among the foreign correspondents who came were Ted Kennedy, Jr. of Boston Globe and Phil Bronstein of San Francisco Examiner. Evelio made the Kennedys stay at the Bishop’s House. I was told by highly reliable sources that Sister Lydia Labrador of Mensa Domini designated herself as chief security officer of the Kennedys (versus the goons) during their stay at the Bishop’s House.”

With the backdrop of the fraudulent 2004 elections very much in our minds as we become engrossed again with another presidential elections less than a year away, Kennedy’s speech reminds us that the malevolent forces had tried to destroy our democracy but failed. And in that fight, there was an American (a number of them actually), who stood up and took up our cause.

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“No one, except perhaps Mr. Marcos himself can dispute the fact that the presidential elections held in the Philippines were a complete and audacious fraud, a mockery of the democratic process which once again demonstrated Mr. Marcos contempt for justice and the rule of law.

“Cory Aquino won that election lock, stock, and barrel. It is time that the United States called a spade a spade. …The American people are outraged and dismayed by the rampant fraud and manipulation that pervaded the Presidential election in the Philippines on Feb. 7. The National assembly, a Marcos organ, has now declared President Marcos the winner of the election, but by all other accounts,Gucci Handbags, the official tally was a fabrication designed to cheat the people of their right freely to choose their leader. The losers in this charade are many – including the opposition candidate Corazon Aquino,the Philippine people, and the future of democracy in the Philippines.

“I spoke with Cory Aquino this morning and we discussed the resolution before the Senate today. Despite the exercise in deceit she has just undergone, that champion of freedom has not forsaken hope for her country. She has vowed to continue to fight for democracy in her country,the cause for which her husband and, and my friend, Ninoy Aquino gave his life….

“The United States cannot assure fair elections in the Philippines, but we must not wink at an election that is so infected with violence,Replica Handbags, intimidation, and fraud as to make a mockery of the electoral process.

“The people of the Philippines want and deserve democracy in their country. None of us will ever forget the pictures of the Philippine people struggling to protect their ballots; their courage as they worked to make their elections fair and honest….”

Sen. Kennedy made special mention of Evelio Javier, whom he called, “Evi”:

“Evi was a courageous opposition leader in the Philippines whom I had met while he was earning a master’s degree at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. ….My son, Teddy Jr. , who was in the elections, visited Evi three days before he was killed. Evi knew his life was in danger, never going anywhere alone and never staying too long in one place. Evi even told my son that he did not expect to live out the week.

“His commitment to democracy in the Philippines never waivered as he courageously continued to campaign vigorously on behalf of the opposition Presidential candidate,replica prada, Corazon Aquino throughout his province in Antique. That commitment cost him his life but Cory won in Antique.”

There was a part when Sen. Kennedy said, “And it is the responsibility of the United States to make it clear it cannot continue to support an illegitimate regime that attempts to legitimize itself by stealing the election.”

I just wished that he, or other democracy-loving American officials, said that again in 2004.

But this is not a perfect world. I’m content with the thought that there was once an American who took up the cause of democracy for Filipinos. That’s a lot to thank for.

A portion of the Senate Congressional Record, Feb. 19, 1986:

Sen.Kennedy Senate Speech1986