New hotels arise amid ruins in Haitian capital

Sun, 04/29/2012 - 13:56 EDT - Yahoo! Business News

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Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, as the concrete Royal Oasis hotel rises over a metropolitan area still filled with displaced-persons camps housing hundreds of thousands. Signs of Haiti's comeback can also be seen in the 105-room Best Western hotel being built within blocks of shanty-covered hillsides.

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