Mr Eskenazi, recognised as one of the most important dealers in Oriental art in the world, paid more than seven times its estimated value.

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It also selects the upscale east-meets-west eatery Vong (at Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental hotel) as the best restaurant in the world, bar none.

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For instance Best Western, Carlson, Mandarin Oriental and others have teamed up with Clean the World, an initiative that recycles your partially used soap from the hotel room.

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While she is more sedate here, her haughty oriental beauty suggests that many doughty warriors would consider the world well lost for her.

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I'm wondering, as a practitioner of Oriental medicine, knowing that the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization has discovered through their studies that alternative medicine often is more cost-effective and very effective, how will alternative medicine fit in your new health care program?

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The company, Dubai Ports World, would do so by purchasing a British concern, Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ("P and O").

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This demanding group of busy travelers placed Singapore's Raffles, Tokyo's Park Hyatt, Bangkok's Oriental, the Ritz-Carlton Millenia in Singapore and Hong Kong's Mandarin Oriental, Regent and Peninsula (at No. 1) among their choices for the world's top international and city hotels.

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