Doris Duke and James Cromwell arrived at the islands on their honeymoon, beginning the American heiress's long love affair with surfing and leading to the eventual purchase of her Shangri La estate on Honolulu.
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.
"I reject that view entirely, " he said during the speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue.
Who could resist a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on East Paradise Lane, in the subdivision of Shangri-La?
During the bus ride from Beijing airport to the Shangri-La Hotel, the tour guide kept mentioning housing prices.
The 200-room Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo crowns the top 11 floors of the 37-storey Marunouchi Trust Tower next to Tokyo Station.
Mr Hagel's speech, at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, followed the same pattern.
Before the designers turned his old five-bedroom into a Shangri-la, he was gone.
The bus tour guide, during the ride from the Beijing airport to the Shangri-La hotel, kept mentioning house prices.
This pint-sized Shangri-La is only a short journey from L.A, but it's a long, long way from Jersey City, N.
For a 007-style Asian experience, the chocolate and caramel rooms at the Shangri-La Hotel are a good place to start.
The company is currently constructing a 6, 400-room complex at the COTAI STRIP, which will feature the Shangri-La, Traders, Sheraton, and St.
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Christie Williams saw her worst fears unfold on television as she watched her Shangri-la Ranch in Ramona go up in flames.
Shangri-La Asia, which runs 71 luxury hotels around the world, has temporarily stopped importing fresh food from Japan, according to Bloomberg News.
One afternoon at the Shangri-La, my wife and kids and I decided to abort a long elevator wait and take the stairs.
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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And ministers meet at the ASEAN Regional Forum and the Shangri-La dialogue.
The Manhattan restaurant serves up Asian-influenced cuisine, but in Hong Kong, Restaurant Petrus at Island Shangri-La specializes in French fare.
Paraguay is less of a smugglers' Shangri-la now that it is a member of Mercosur, a trading block that includes Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
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.
Shangri-La merely had to set up a Hawaiian production outfit and get it qualified as a high-tech business to earn a 100% tax credit.
The second are techno-libertarians and Utopians, who see the Web as some digital Shangri-La that should be protected from the real world's rudeness and vagaries.
People now have more money to spend, and some of them go to the new Shangri-La-run hotel at the top of the China World Tower, Beijing's tallest building.
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.
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.
To the distant Western traveler, Timbuktu has for centuries conjured images of mystery and wonder, a remote Shangri-La whose tantalizing riches and intellectual wealth lured the brave and adventurous.
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