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...happy to discover the East End Brewery, (852) 2811 1907, where discriminating beer connoisseurs can sample microbrews from around the world, such as California's Anchor Steam, or the tangy Aldrich Bay Pale Ale and the full-bodied Too Soo Brew, both made by the award-winning Hong Kong SAR Brewing Company. Brewpubs like East End and microbreweries like Hong Kong Brewing are expanding around the region, as Asian beer drinkers discover what the rest of the world has already learned: if you're going to get sloshed, do it with taste...
...John Docherty, general manager of the Hong Kong SAR Brewing Company, can relate. He knows how difficult it is for microbreweries to find their niche in a macrobrew region. Founded in 1996, his is one of the oldest microbreweries in Asia and does most of its business supplying Hong Kong pubs with exclusive microbrews; he began exporting its popular Dragon's Back Ale and Premium Gold Lager outside Hong Kong only a few months ago. Though the company has expanded its production, the focus is on providing diversity to local tipplers stuck in an unimaginative market. "With most bartenders...
...said his opponents were trying to destabilize the country and force the military to intervene, which is exactly what happened in April, when dissident military officers briefly overthrew the government. Meanwhile, international mediation efforts continued, led by the Secretary-General of the Organization of American States, César Gaviria. "If we don't find a solution at the table, there is a risk that the country will become more polarized - and that brings an enormous risk of violence," Gaviria said.- By Owain Johnson/Caracas...
...subject of Victoria Finlay's book, Colour: Travels through the Paintbox. A British author and adventurer, Finlay embarks on a quest for the origins of colors?her favorites, anyway. Finlay is part scholar, part mad scientist and always a sprightly and engaging storyteller. This search takes her, inevitably, to Sar-e-Sang mine in northern Afghanistan, the main source of lapis. "The first 20 meters would have given the stones for the Egyptian tombs," she writes. "A little later was where the Bamiyan Buddhas got their haloes." Deeper down was "where Titian may have got his sky from?a whole...
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