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JUL 9, 2011
More funding for Nollywood, Nexim Bank assures
Vanguard (Nigeria)
More funds to boast film production activities in Nigeria are underway... the Nigerian motion industry has demonstrated its ability to play critical role in the global economy, with its great potential as a tool for empowerment, cultural growth and international diplomacy.
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JUL 9, 2011
Feature: “Ping Pong Diplomacy” enjoys revival at Nixon Library
Xinhuanet
On Friday at the Nixon Library in California, Braithwaite played against Liang Geliang, a Chinese Ping Pong player who was one of the Chinese team members in Japan for the historical table tennis competition in 1971. The two of them had a rematch 40 years later.
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JUL 9, 2011
America 3D roadshow strengthens US ties
Sun Star (Philippines)
Aside from performances by the Philippine All Strar hip-hop, crooner Jed Madela singing Broadway tunes, US Navy fleet band, Baguio residents will also get the chance to participate in interactive games and contests organized by the US embassy.
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JUL 8, 2011
When ‘the little ball moved the big ball’ four decades ago
Los Angeles Times
On Friday the Richard Nixon Foundation commemorated the 40th anniversary of what became known as pingpong diplomacy. The notion that sport could open a country seems outlandish on its face, but pingpong diplomacy is just one of several examples of sport influencing politics. Ultimately...sports' ability to humanize is part of the reason pingpong diplomacy can work.
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JUL 8, 2011
China Pavilion to reopen to visitors
China Daily
The Shanghai Expo's China Pavilion expects crowds to teem through its doors when it reopens on July 12 in the sweltering summer heat. The pavilion will be open to public for three months till Oct 9, from Tuesday to Sunday.
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JUL 8, 2011
Poland’s EU Art Avoids Controversy—And Much Notice
Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
Remember Czech artist David Cerny's "Entropa"? The sculpture, which showed stereotypes of all 27 EU member states, was perhaps the most memorable symbol of the otherwise ill-fated Czech EU presidency in the first half of 2009.
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JUL 8, 2011
Betty Ford: The woman who wooed the Russians to Vail
Vail Daily
The Vail Valley Foundation staff had received a call that the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, in the midst of its first U.S. tour, had to cancel its shows scheduled for Texas. Would Vail be willing to host the world-renowned ballet company's first U.S. performance instead?
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JUL 8, 2011
‘Latma’ produces new flotilla song
Jerusalem Post
n the immediate aftermath of the IDF’s takeover of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara during last year’s pro-Hamas flotilla to Gaza, Israel’s greatest public diplomacy victory came in the form of a private initiative by Latma... a satirical media criticism website...
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JUL 6, 2011
After Tahrir, New Voices in a Global Fugue
The New York Times
It is convenient to represent cultures as monolithic entities especially if they are to be seen as a threat to “our” way of life. It is clear from the poetry, music and voices in general that the Arab culture is not such an entity. In this age of musical and political cosmopolitanism, as opposed to alienating exclusivism or anything-goes pluralism, I hope for a celebration of every viable strand in our tapestry.
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JUL 6, 2011
A Reunified Painting Stirs Big Thoughts in China and Taiwan
The New York Times
If the story of “Fuchun Mountains” is richly symbolic of China’s tumultuous history and its six-decade estrangement from Taiwan, then the painting’s reunification last month at the National Palace Museum here in the Taiwanese capital is a made-to-order metaphor for the reconciliation that Communist Party leaders have long imagined for what they deem a breakaway province.
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