Cultural Diplomacy

Indian films and Indian music are being performed during the event and participants will offer Indian food and Indian handicrafts to visitors during the festival that will run until May 15... “There is much commonality between these two nations and each generation tries to boost these ties that are based on cultural and civilizational resemblance between these two countries,” he added.

Moments after he said that his country had instructed Pakistan to target terror havens, US ambassador Timothy Roemer was given basic lessons in the American sport of ultimate (earlier known as Frisbee) by slum children on his visit to Gandhi Ashram on Tuesday.

South Korea and North Korea have been invited to field a joint table tennis team at an upcoming international event designed to promote peace through sports, officials said. [The] ...Peace and Sport Table Tennis Tournament will invite 10 countries to "encourage dialogue and good relations" between states.

Asserting that India and Kazakhstan have rich heritage and culture, Union Minister of Tourism, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja on Wednesday said mutual cooperation and organisation of cultural events and exhibition between the two nations will go a long way in cementing mutual cultural relations.

May 11, 2011

It's familiar, unmistakable. The melody echoing through the auditorium at Rangsit University is from Days of Wine and Roses, that Hollywood drama from the early 1960s whose theme music, composed by Henry Mancini, won an Academy Award. The odd thing is that the tune is being played by a group of Asian students who couldn't possibly have been born when that film was released.

Forty years after a week of table tennis exhibition matches helped restore relations between the United States and China, pingpong diplomacy is making a comeback.

People often get to know about another country's culture through its cuisine... During the Golden Week holiday, that's how nearly 50 people in Tokyo got to know more about the rich history of Estonia, learning how to make Estonian culinary delights.

In keeping with the resolve to further cultural exchanges between Pakistan and Brazil, the Embassy of Brazil has invited five prominent members of the cultural and artistic scene of Pakistan to visit Brazil in May.

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