 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Travel: Bin there, dune it; Don't give this Canary Island the bird, says Iain Mayhew.(Review)
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Byline: Iain Mayhew
WELL, here's a thing. I'm on an island which I'd normally go out of my way to avoid and I'm having the best holiday I've had in a long while.
Helped in no small part by a little mountain village or two, a couple of great restaurants, a friendly, well-run hotel, plenty of sunshine and a huge beach.
Gran Canaria, the third largest of the Canary Islands, is not high on the list of the world's paradise islands. It's never been on top of mine, anyway.
When I first pitched up on the island nearly 30 years ago, the barren ...
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A taste of Sulawesi (Celebes): Sulawesi, one of the Greater Sunda Islands is the world's eleventh largest island with a land mass of about 74,000 miles, falling 1,800 square miles short of the tenth spot, which is held by Ellesmere Island in the Canadian arctic. Despite its size, it has a very rich history of coffee cultivation.(Sulawesi Coffee)
Magazine article from: Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
; ...Strait and beyond the Indonesian island of Kalimantan (Borneo). The Banda Sea and the Indonesian Island of Maluku (the Moluccas...Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands is in the south, while the...Sulawesi in the north. The island has a spidery shape with four...
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United States : State Financing Urged for Sunda Strait Bridge.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo
; ...kilometer bridge spanning the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra...Indonesians live on the two islands. The project would consist...that would also traverse the islands of Prajurit, Sangiang and...Bambang Yudhoyono had a vision of island connectivity, which he believed...Yudhoyono wanted to see ...
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 "ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)")
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SUNDA STRAIT BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION TO DEPEND ON FEASIBILITY STUDY.
News Wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
; ...realization of the proposed Sunda Strait Bridge (JSS) project...accurately. Kalla said the Sunda Strait Bridge project had actually...would link Java and Sumatra islands. "The government fully supports...encourage economic growth on the two islands, he said. He added that the...
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Japan : Japan and China Interested in Sunda Strait Project.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo
; ...investing in the project of a Sunda Strait bridge connecting the islands of Sumatra and Java. Japan...to build the bridge over the Sunda Strait. Government is identifying...two options to connect the two islands. All options have their positive...
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GOVT BACKS SUNDA STRAIT BRIDGE PROJECT.
News Wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
; ...government fully supports a plan to build the Sunda Strait Bridge (JSS) which will link Java and Sumatra islands, a minister said. "The government fully...to encourage economic growth on the two islands, he said. He said the government would...
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CONSTRUCTION OF INDONESIA'S SUNDA STRAITS BRIDGE IN FINANCIAL STRIFE.
News Wire article from: AsiaPulse News
; ...is set to go ahead with plan to build a bridge spanning the Sunda straits between the southern tip of Sumatra and western part...spanning the sea between eastern part of Java mainland and the island of Madura in East Java East. (ANTARA) lm 08-10 1544
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Flavours from Sunda Strait
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times
; ...just like how it's done in a Sunda home. Sayur Asam (RM5.50...obvious Chinese influence in the Sunda Strait," says Teoh. Eat it...reminds me of the small, rocky islands in Pulau Langkawi's Geopark...Because they live near the Sunda Strait, the Sundanese diet...
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SUNDA STRAIT BRIDGE TO SMOOTH JAVA-SUMATRA ECONOMIC LINKAGES : OBSERVER.
News Wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
; ...km bridge over the Sunda Strait to connect Merak...Bakauheni harbor on Sumatra island must be realized because...goods between the two big islands, an observer said...transportation density in the Sunda Strait was far higher than that between Madura island and Surabaya's Ujung...
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Brinkmanship and deterrence success during the Anglo-Indonesian Sunda Straits Crisis, 1964-1966.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
; ...of war at the height of the Sunda Straits Crisis in September...Malaysian border on the island of Borneo. The violence there...through the Indonesian-claimed Sunda Straits between Sumatra and Java. The resulting Sunda Straits Crisis has been dubbed...
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MoU ON ACCELERATED SUNDA STRAIT BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION SIGNED.
News Wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
; ...accelerated construction of the Sunda Strait Bridge project. A similar...realization of the project. The Sunda Strait Bridge would be the first bridge linking the two big islands in Indonesia. The MoU is also...design of such project over the Sunda Strait. In 1986, President...
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