This is the Golden Palm Tree Resort and Spa, a luxurious Maldivian-style, over-water villa complex, just off the coast of Selangor in Malaysia.

BBC: The Maldives meets Dubai, in Malaysia

Co-winner of the Golden Palm at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

NEWYORKER: Farewell My Concubine

Many felt that this fable should have won the Golden Palm.

ECONOMIST: Good films, pity about the jury

Less so was the jury's final award, the Golden Palm, which went to a fine and stealthy film that crept up on festival-goers on the very last day.

ECONOMIST: The Cannes Film Festival

In rural Quang Ngai province the authorities are seeking hoteliers to develop its golden, palm-fringed and empty beaches, and dream of building spa resorts around the hot-water springs that bubble up through the province's rice paddies.

ECONOMIST: Tourism could do a lot of good if Vietnam handles it properly

As he speaks, stunning images of the Golden Gate bridge and Santa Monica's palm trees clash with a cow crossing a freeway in a drab Nevada desert.

ECONOMIST: Emigration from California

The main island, Apo Island -- not to be confused with the better known island of the same name off the island of Negros in the central Philippines -- is a palm-fringed beauty, ringed by golden sand and home to an emerald-green interior lagoon embraced by mangroves.

BBC: The undiscovered jewel of the Philippines