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.

The Library of Congress and Sony launched a new Web that allows listeners to stream a vast archive of more than 10,000 pre-1925 recordings of music, speeches, poetry and comedy. Officials billed it as the largest collection of such historical recordings ever made available online.

The Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) must be lauded for popularising Malaysian food through its much-publicized Malaysian Kitchen Programme which has entered into its second year... The response to Malaysia's Kitchen Programme in the New York/New Jersey region has been quite positive...

Liquid Comics and Open Hands Initiative, a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to public diplomacy efforts, announced Saturday the launch of a new comic book that will introduce children around the world to The Silver Scorpion...[whose] powers include the ability to “help build bridges between the youth of America and the Arab world, starting with Syria.”

We are thrilled to bring some of Hollywood's master storytellers to India to learn from India's long, rich history of storytelling," said Sandra de Castro Buffington, Director of Hollywood, Health & Society. "We know that they will be creatively and personally inspired by what they see and learn while in this extraordinary country.