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...tend to be brandy and beer, respectively). Singapore, where average per capita alcohol consumption barely notches three liters a year, is not that much different - and yet it recently became home to a branch of La Maison du Whisky, an award-winning whisky stockist headquartered in Paris. The new offshoot, tel: (65) 6733 0059, hopes to educate the Southeast Asian market - as well as provide succor to thirsty visitors and the area's sprinkling of whisky fans - with its splendid selection of 700 premium blends and malts, housed in the new Pier complex at Robertson Quay. Selections range from simple...
...When did you start Pink Is The New Blog and why? I started Pink Is the New Blog in June 2004, but it was actually an offshoot of my original blog that I started in August of 2002. The whole reason I started blogging in the first place was because I wanted to get into the habit of writing every single day, and I thought that if I did it online, and if there was an audience - even if the audience as small as my parents and my friends who I made read my blog - that I would have this...
...China: a junior school in Suzhou in 2007 and an upper-school joint venture with a leading Chinese high school in Beijing in 2008. Dulwich has plans for India, too. The trend has caught on: Shrewsbury School has a three-year-old affiliate in Bangkok, and a Dubai offshoot of Repton will open for business in 2007. Given British schools' success overseas, can a private education by any other name smell as sweet? In Gamagori, Japan, Kaiyo Academy, backed by a group of high-ranking businessmen hoping to revamp Japanese academic standards, has tried to shake off the name minted...
Austin, Texas, is home to three standouts. In October more than 100 short and feature films are screened at the Austin Film Festival. SXSW Film is an offshoot of a music festival held every spring. And in April the Best of QT Fest draws die-hard Quentin Tarantino fans to the Alamo Drafthouse...
...write about Venezuela?s political movement. "Venezuela is an inspiration to people from around the world," said McLlroy, who writes from Caracas for the publication Green Left Weekly. "Venezuela is not on the normal tourist map in Latin America. But I think the tourism industry will be an offshoot of the success of the political revolution...