The swish Hotel Baia di Nora is a 20-minute drive up the coast from Chia.
Certainly, Chia concedes the Singapore environment is tangibly more outward-looking than it was a decade ago.
The more sophisticated Singapore artists have learned "to make their work viable without being penalizable, " Chia observes.
Chia Steiner(ph), who came to the mall with her two young children to see a puppet show, agreed.
Jeff Lunden reports on Wenlan Chia, a 36-year-old designer from Taipei who's preparing her first big runway show.
You can even buy Mr. T-themed Chia Pets, cookie jars and USB drives.
"They knew they had to get away from Singapore to do what they had wanted to do, " says Chia.
Benny Chia, the Singapore-born organizer of Hong Kong's annual City Festival thinks so.
"The high liquidity and favorable interest-rate environment remain supportive of home-buying demand, " said Colliers International property analyst Chia Siew Chuin.
Yu Chia-yi and her two siblings lost their mother, who was travelling with neighbours on a group tour bound for northern China.
"It remains to be seen if the strong sales momentum can be sustained for the second half of 2012, " Colliers International's Ms. Chia said.
"Speculation has been excessive, " says Chia Yew Boon of Crosby Securities.
At the time the juice business was dominated by Japanese importers, so he decided to mimic their marketing strategy to promote his Chia Meei juice brand.
In 1974, giant pandas Chia Chia and Ching Ching, gifts from China to British Prime Minister Edward Heath when he visited there in 1973, arrived in London.
In 1996, Arquitectonica completed the "Chia Pet, " a garage with six levels of parking plopped on top of a historic block of buildings and shrouded entirely in greenery, and earned rave reviews.
While the Costa Smeralda in the northeast gets the celebrity attention, the mile-long stretch of sand at Chia at the opposite end of Sardinia is a jaw-dropper of a beach without the mark-up.
When painting returned yet again from the dead in the 1980s, the big news was the neoexpressionism of David Salle, Julian Schnabel and the "Three C's" (Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia and Enzo Cucchi) from Italy.
"A more challenging economic environment and cautious employment prospects" could mean prices start to stabilize, although demand should stay supported by low interest rates and as volatile financial markets push investors into property, Ms. Chia said.
"With the general election overhang out of the way, we expect the market to gradually move higher in the months ahead to narrow the gap to its regional peers, as concerns over continuity of policies abate, " said Alexander Chia, an analyst at RHB Research.
While many of us are busy ferreting out the best deals on everything from tablet computers and diamond earrings to talking Furby dolls and Chia Pets, experts advise that this is also the best time of the year to garner the deepest discounts on a new car or truck.
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