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Known for its intricate wall mosaics and a fifty-four-foot dome covered with more than twenty-eight thousand tiles, the landmark building also features a 2, 753-seat main theatre, three Masonic lodge rooms, and four M.
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Only a quarter of migrant workers in the cities were covered by pensions in 2010, compared with four-fifths of locals, according to Albert Park of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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People linger delightedly at the Hotel Habitat by Enric Ruiz-Geli with Cloud 9 Acconci Studio and Ruy Ohtake, a miniature simulacrum of a proposed four-star hotel for Barcelona covered with a web of 5, 000 winking light-emitting diodes, or LEDS, powered by solar cells for a nighttime display of glowing colors.
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From Chiang Mai, visitors spend around four hours in a songtaew, a covered truck with two benches in the back, then two more hours in the back of a 4x4 driving up a primitive road.
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All have been individually decorated, so it is impossible to generalize, but ours came with cream walls, bleached wooden floors covered by sisal matting, wicker screens, a four-poster king-size bed, wingback armchairs, a large writing desk, dramatic framed black-and-white photography and decoration that ranged from traditional African sculptures to a tower of Louis Vuitton steamer trunks.
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