About HANOI - Vietnam We arrived in Hanoi from Tokyo on Sunday evening having planned on a full day of independent touring before the start of the AmaWaterways organized part of the trip with the rest of the group. We booked the extra night at the Sofitel Legend Metropole directly through AmaWaterways since we wanted to be certain that we did not have to change rooms for the other two nights covered by the tour. We arranged...more
WikiLeaks disclosures drive Manmohan Singh into corner That voters in India are routinely bribed in cash or kind is a well-known phenomenon. In Tamilnadu according to WikiLeaks, it is commonplace, as indeed it is elsewhere in the country. Indians are also familiar with what is generally known as "horse trading" that involves in huge amounts of cash changing hands when, post-elections, political parties engage in government...more
Double heroes set for Scottish Open The Barclays Scottish Open is to get the full support of its country's celebrated new, 'unique Scottish double' heroes US-based Scot Martin Laird who followed fellow-countryman Paul Lawrie into the winner's TaylorMade Burner SuperFast 2.0 Driver on Sunday to give Scotland its first-ever twin victory on both sides of the Atlantic on the same day, have both confirmed that they are targeting the Barclays Scottish Open in am attempt to keep the Scottish flag flying high. Aberdonian Lawrie, who won The European Tour's Open de Andalucia de Golf in Spain some six or so hours before Glaswegian Laird became the first-ever European winner of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on the US PGA Tour, have both confirmed that they will be teeing off at Castle Stuart Golf Links near Inverness on July 7. On a year of firsts, the TaylorMade Burner SuperFast 2.0 Driver, is to be played for the first time at Castle Stuart, a highly acclaimed new links course in the Scottish highlands Both players have expressed the delight to be playing at a classic links course in the week before this year's Open which is to be hosted by Royal St George's on its...more
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Halong Bay - Vietnam The next morning our bags were outside our rooms by 7AM and we had breakfast. We met in the lobby by 8AM for departure to Ha Long Bay. Our bags were checked by us to be certain they were there and put on our bus. We were told to pack an overnight bag just for the overnight on the junk and that we would have an...more
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