In fact, several of the more sophisticated spots are in hotels, including the glass-walled Blu Horizon in the Shangri-La overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hemmesphere in the Establishment Hotel and the cavernous lobby-level Water Bar in BLUE Sydney.
The Manhattan restaurant serves up Asian-influenced cuisine, but in Hong Kong, Restaurant Petrus at Island Shangri-La specializes in French fare.
In 1936, she decorated her Hawaii hideaway in this style, a process beautifully documented in the new book "Doris Duke's Shangri La: A House in Paradise" (Rizzoli), the companion to an exhibition on display through Feb. 17 at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
Who could resist a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on East Paradise Lane, in the subdivision of Shangri-La?
While many people still view the ancient city of Kathmandu as a mystical Shangri-la in the Himalayas, the modern reality of life in Nepal's capital is far from peaceful.
Tamie has integrated all of her inspiration from these places and spaces to remodel and rebrand Hotel Shangri-la in Santa Monica, which has gained rave review in several publications including the New York Times, London Independent and Sunset magazine.
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Mr Hagel's speech, at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, followed the same pattern.
Christie Williams saw her worst fears unfold on television as she watched her Shangri-la Ranch in Ramona go up in flames.
The dispute took center stage earlier this month when defense officials from 28 Asia-Pacific nations gathered at the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore.
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The Regent Hong Kong was rated No. 2, the city's Peninsula No. 3, the Oriental in Bangkok No. 4, Hong Kong's Island Shangri-La No. 6 and its sister property in Bangkok No. 8. (The No. 1 spot went to the Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans).
Then, at the annual Shangri-la security conference in Singapore that month, Gates had to endure a series of hostile comments from Chinese flag officers.
The 202-room Shangri-La Toronto opened in August 2012, just in time to host the stars and starlets in town for the annual Toronto International Film Festival, which takes over the city each September.
The elegant 81-room Shangri-La Hotel opened in 2010 among the embassies and mansions in the Trocadero district, after a four-year revamp of a building that was once the residence of Roland Bonaparte, grandnephew of Napoleon.
In contrast, most Asian hotel chains, such as Shangri-La Asia, Mandarin-Oriental, and Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (which holds the Peninsula brand), own and manage their own hotels.
In the last decade, big international chains such as Shangri-La, Peninsula, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental and Ritz-Carlton have moved in, dominating the luxury hotel scene.
Several hotels loom over it, such as the recently renovated Shangri-La, which has Asian design touches in the rooms and all-harbor views, and the also recently renovated InterContinental, which has a new presidential floor incorporating an outdoor roof terrace.
Yes, more than a few Democrats will claim that the Veterans Administration health program is the liberal Shangri-la: an integrated single-payer system in which government pays VA doctors directly and owns and runs VA hospitals.
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