US Budget Hotel Chain Looking at India Entry

Continuing the influx of foreign investment into the Indian hotel sector, US-based Vantage Hospitality Group Inc., the world’s 12th-largest hotel company by number of properties,…

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Tourism Ministry Logs in to E-business

The ministry of tourism plans to develop an online portal to compete for hotel and airline bookings with websites such as expedia.com. In partnership with…

India is Next Stop on Orient Express Route

The Orient Express is making tracks to India. One of Europe’s largest luxury train service operators, Orient-Express Hotels & Trains Ltd, which markets opulent rail…

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Reliance Plans Hotels in SEZs

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India’s largest conglomerate, wants to enter the hospitality sector by building hotels and motels. The company plans to set up hotels…

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Samita Sinha on the Fusion Project KAASH

We were joined by Samita Sinha, a local artist trained in piano, and classical South Asian music. Sinha will talk to us about her fusion…

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Vietnamese Americans Demand Release of Cong Thanh Do

Toan Do, a U.S.-based journalist originally from Vietnam, will discuss the recent arrest of anti-government activist and U.S. citizen Cong Thanh Do in Vietnam, and…

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Undercover in Japan: Filipina Sex Workers

A conversation with Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, an assistant professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis who went undercover in Japan to learn…

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Warming Up: The US-Indian Nuclear Deal

We talk to Vijay Prashad about the likelihood of passage and the geopolitics of the US-India Nuclear Deal. Despite the U.S.’s apparent consternation over Iran’s…