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Still relatively unknown both in Korea and abroad, PyeongChang, the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics, is hoping to be much more than just a ski resort.

As home to some of the most scenic nature and comprehensive leisure facilities in the nation, PyeongChang is hoping duplicate the success of Lake Placid of the United States during and after the 1980 Winter Games, in attracting tourists and international events.

Korea has grown into a winter sports powerhouse in Asia, finishing in the top 10 in the medal standings in the five previous Winter Games.

To achieve this, Korea has cultivated an environment to nurture winter sports and nowhere is it more obvious than in PyeongChang.
During the past decade, the remote alpine town traditionally known as the best place to ski here has also grown into a favorite destination for mountain hiking, especially the southern part of Mt. Read more…

PHUKET, Thailand – HotelTravel.com is sinking hotel deals and birdie putts for this week’s 140th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s at Sandwich in Kent, England, offering additional savings off its usual super low rates.

While Tiger Woods has already declared he is unfit for this year’s British Open, the world of golf seems to have left him behind. After upstart Roy McIlory scored his first major victory at the US Open earlier this year, the refrain around PGA clubhouses in 2011 could easily be ‘Tiger who.’

HotelTravel.com Chief Marketing Officer, Tom Racette, said: “Roy McIlory is the face of professional golf for 2011, along with his young posse of friends who dress up flash in bright colors and white belts. The

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Treasuries and mortgage bonds are lower this morning after rallying yesterday on a strong 10 year treasury auction.

 U.S. lawmakers are under pressure to come to an agreement on the 414.3 trillion debt limit after Moody’s placed the nation’s credit rating under review for a downgrade.

Tags: Credit Rating Downgrade Debt Limit Mortgage Bonds Nation’s Credit Rating Quicken Loans Treasuries Treasuries and Mortgage Bonds open Low Treasury Auction U.S. Lawm

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Climate change is biggest and most urgent challenge facing humanity.   Scientists say we need global emissions to peak within the decade and decline rapidly thereafter to have an earthly chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.

The world we want will require much more enlightened green governance.

When you think about it, without some measure of governance in any field, we get the law of the jungle – the powerful dominate, the weak get squeezed, bad things happen, and there is no redress.

So what should good green governance mean?

• It means, above all, governments not just recognizing but taking responsibility for the state of the planet – including the cause and consequences of climate change.
• It means governments having a clear vision or ambition for where they want their country and the world to get to, and clear milestones to get there.
• It means being crystal clear about the things we need more of, and the things that must stop, to reach that vision
• And it means putting in place the rules, incentives and penalties to accelerate the good and put a brake on the bad.   So, for example, investing in and promoting the most helpful technologies and behaviours and weaning us off fossil fuel – taking the right decisions today to safeguard tomorrow.
• And it means monitoring progress carefully so we know whether or not we are on track.

So, let’s have a look at how the coalition government is doing on green governance.  How is it doing on setting a clear vision for change, promoting the good, stopping the bad?

When David Cameron said on his second day in his new job that he wanted to lead the Greenest Government Ever, we welcomed it – cautiously, knowing that its actions not words that will count.

To mark the first anniversary of the coalition we published a report – written by one of my predecessors, Jonathan Porritt – weighing up how the Government had acted so far.

And I’m afraid it made for pretty grim reading. “The bad and the ugl

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