{"id":293,"date":"2007-06-01T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/06\/01\/5th-global-indian-shopping-festival-midvalley-1-to-10-june\/"},"modified":"2007-06-01T09:00:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T01:00:02","slug":"5th-global-indian-shopping-festival-midvalley-1-to-10-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/06\/01\/5th-global-indian-shopping-festival-midvalley-1-to-10-june\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Global Indian Shopping Festival &#8211; Midvalley 1 to 10 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Fifth Indian shopping fiesta at Mid Valley<\/h5>\n<div>KUALA LUMPUR: Planning to go to India to look for the latest saree for a special occasion? <\/div>\n<table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>You may want to stop by the Mid Valley Megamall first.<\/p>\n<p>The Mid Valley Exhibition Centre has been turned into a &quot;Little India&quot; from today for the Global Indian Shopping Festival 2007. <\/p>\n<p>Sarees, bangles, decorative items and Indian sweets are just some of the attractions at the 10-day festival, which is being held for the fifth time at the shopping mall.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by ASC Agenda Suria Communication Sdn Bhd, the festival also offers numerous contests, dance displays, concerts and fashion shows. <br \/>&quot;This year, we have more exhibitors from states like Orrisa, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. The prices are also cheaper as we have special clearance from the Customs Department,&quot; said company director Jaggarao Simancha. <\/p>\n<p>There will be a total of 218 exhibition booths.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight is a traditional Hindu wedding called &quot;Kettimelam Kalyanam&quot; for three lucky couples.<\/p>\n<p>Jaggarao said last year&#8217;s festival raked in RM12 million and he expected this year&#8217;s revenue to rise to RM20 million. More than 300,000 visitors are expected to turn up for the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Indian shopping fiesta at Mid Valley KUALA LUMPUR: Planning to go to India to look for the latest saree for a special occasion? You may want to stop by the Mid Valley Megamall first. The Mid Valley Exhibition Centre has been turned into a &quot;Little India&quot; from today for the Global Indian Shopping Festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[65,133],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-festival","tag-isa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}