It's a pre-consumerist haven stuck in perpetual slow-mo.
What makes Qeshm different from Kish, known throughout Iran as a shoppers' haven, is that many locals own stores and malls.
Under his long stewardship, Luxembourg became Europe's wealthiest country, one of the richest in the world in per capita terms, as well as a bastion of banking secrecy and a tax haven for multinationals keen to exploit the EU's single market while minimising their contributions to the European exchequer.
The authorities thought the park would be a haven for leopards, but instead the relocated cats were forced to fight for territory and food.
Blogger Maysaloon discusses Qatar's rather sketchy "Plan B" involving some kind of safe haven in Syria.
In a couple of years this scrappy former industrial site has been transformed into a sophisticated boat haven with an eye-catching, modernist building.
Snowden emphatically denied speculation that he had cut a deal with the Chinese government, giving them classified documents in exchange for providing him with an eventual safe haven.
NGOs should act as a haven for the principles they promote, regardless of where their field offices are based, in order to be coherent with their values and mission.
stellabaraklianou said of The Informers, a collection of short stories: LA is inevitably a writer's "paradise" or haven, as it integrates the necessary stage set... Half the time it is like living and driving on a set.
The town's Arizona market – a haven for drugs, prostitution, guns and counterfeit merchandise during and after the war - was transformed into a licensed, regulated bazaar.
His UK company, Wintel Petrochemicals, is owned by a trust registered in the tax haven of Guernsey.
