A two-day photo exhibition on Nepal-China cultural exchange began in Yichhang Huwei province of China on Saturday.The exhibition organized by Chinese Yichhang Photographers' Association began with the participation of Kathmandu School of Medical Technology (KSMT).

When Taiwan entered a film in the Tokyo Film Festival last month, there was no sense of an impending diplomatic incident. On the surface, relations between Taiwan and China had rarely been better, and for more than 10 years, the Japanese festival has welcomed films ''made in Taiwan''.

Ten Myanmar amateur directors will compete in Japan-Mekong film competition to be held in Ibusuki and Kagosheema in Japan in the first week of December under the cultural exchange program of Myanmar and Japan, a local weekly reported Friday.

As the southern city of Guangzhou hosts the Asian Games, which will come to a close on Nov. 27 in China, the prosperous city is putting its best face forward and has welcomed foreigners from all across Asia. However, the sweet welcome the visitors are receiving puts the treatment of a growing presence of African immigrants in the city into stark relief.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington and its escorts are heading for the waters off the Korean peninsula, in the aftermath of the flare-up between North and South Korea. This is very much gunboat diplomacy 21st Century-style.

But some had grander hopes for the Expo – namely, that it would ‘showcase China’s soft power’... As it happened, the events that swirled around the Expo’s closing weeks showcased something quite else: Why China doesn’t have much soft power and why the West, broadly defined, still has it in spades.

Just after artillery fire at the divided Korean Peninsula border struck a hard blow to international relations, filmmakers from Beijing presented a gift celebrating soft power to North Korean leader and cinephile Kim Jong-Il.

The ongoing "Chinese Language Year in Russia" program has deepened mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples, and injected fresh momentum into the all-round bilateral cooperation, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov.