Issue 4279. Last Updated: 11/20/2009

Turkmenistan Opens $1.5Bln Resort

The Associated Press
The president of this normally reclusive nation staged lavish ceremonies for foreign guests and media Monday to launch a new $1.5 billion resort on the desert shore of the Caspian Sea in a city named after his eccentric and autocratic predecessor.

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