India’s Hotel SuperpowerAsia’s Answer To The Starwood PhenomenonWhat:India’s Tata Group has seen its hotel division create yet another brand, this time, geared at travelers soaking up modern India.

The Dirt: Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces is just one unit of the massive empire created by one of India’s richest families, the Tata family, with ties to everything from telecom to automobiles to solar power. However, the leadership in this unit is smart enough to realize they don’t have to reinvent the wheel to [...]

Morocco’s Latest Natural Resource

Often thought of as a stable African nation and exotic tourist destination, Morocco is now referred to by some as the home of the Argan tree. The tree found in a certain region of the nation that straddles Africa and the Middle East bears a fruit whose insides are cultivated for its oil. Long used [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking September 8

Organizers of the Venice International Film Festival showed one of Vietnam’s banned movies, reports Intellasia.net. Vietnamese censors banned Phan Dang Di’s 20-minute film entitled Khi Toi 20, claiming that it portrayed Vietnam negatively. The film follows the relationship between two teenagers, one of which is a sex worker forced into the profession to support her [...]

News on U.K. Immigration, Taiwan, the Middle East and South Africa

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing for an investigation into China’s claim that the Dalai Lama spurred the violence in China-occupied Tibet, BBC reports. While the Chinese government says 19 people were killed in the riots in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa, the Tibetan government puts the number at about 99. In the United Kingdom, government unit [...]

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