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Want a quick taste of Indonesia, but find yourself stuck in Jakarta with only an afternoon to spare? To Alun Alun (Town Square) with you, in that case. Located on the third floor of the Grand Indonesia mall, the hip craft store, art gallery and café-restaurant has quickly become the default place to which expats send out-of-town visitors in search of souvenirs. But Indonesians themselves are the real target audience for the rich displays of batiks, paintings, jewelry, ornaments, books...
...convince just 1% of Indonesians to buy one quality Indonesian item per year, that is already a great start," says Alun Alun's Pincky Sudarman, who scours the country for interesting products and returns with items old and new. Alongside the traditionally made batik, for example, is a great selection of batik made using a breakthrough technique that allows for the printing of completely different patterns on each side. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...totaled just over $13 million, down from the $20 million peak in 1997. Part of the problem stems from bureaucratic hurdles for importers and heavy import duties that account for 60% of the price of the bottle. "There are still immense difficulties importing wine into China," says Alun Griffiths, wine director at Berry Bros. & Rudd, the big U.K. wine merchant. So will the market ever take off? Yes, the optimists continue to believe. Chinese officials sometimes extol the healthy qualities of wine - in any case seeing it as better than local spirits which are often made of rice, corn...
Guitarist Alun Woodward has a few moments of soaring vocals recalling Scotland’s other pop music export, Travis, but The Delgados never wander into their shoegazing territory. The album’s two strongest songs, Woodward’s “Is This All That I Came For?” and Pollock’s “Everybody Come Down” run back to back, a choice that does much to remind listeners of good ol’ pop—singable, hummable and, most of all, with just a touch of sadness...
...Rather than tread the sitcom writer route, Shenson and Lester selected Alun Owen, an acclaimed Liverpudlian playwright, to write the script. Owen was finely attuned to the nuances of the rough working-class humor indigenous to Liverpool, and rather than impose artificial comedic personas on the Beatles, he simply constructed larger-than-life interpretations of traits he observed in the individual Beatles...