The Dutch government has set up a new Water Diplomacy Consortium to help resolved water conflicts around the world. Conflict over water is an increasing problem all over the world and the Netherlands has a unique combination of expertise in water management and international law.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID), aimed at spreading American values all over the world, has started packing up in Russia early this week. Moscow was the initiator of closing down the instrument of American “soft power”, referring to Russian laws.

A China library opened within Tanzania's national library in the African nation's capital of Dar es Salaam on Monday. The China library is a part of the Experience China in Tanzania program, a large cultural exchange initiated by China's State Council's Information Office.

The stunning success of the video and the song has turned assumptions about nation branding and images of Korean upside down... "Gangnam Style" was an unexpected hit, not a promoted one...This says volumes about efforts to promote Korean cultural products overseas: What Koreans like is not necessarily what foreigners like.

It is one of the most sought-after addresses in New York: 1014 Fifth Avenue... According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, the Foreign Ministry is keen to see it house what it calls a German American Forum, an institution aimed at revitalizing trans-Atlantic ties.

Canada and the United Kingdom have agreed to work together on 10 areas when it comes to sharing diplomatic missions abroad, according to a copy of the controversial memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries and obtained by Postmedia News on Monday.

Chinese nationalists have for over a week now staged nationwide demonstrations against Japan which turned violent in some cities. The two countries are locked in a decades-old conflict over the ownership of a group of islets in the East China Sea, called in Chinese Diaoyu and Japanese Senkaku.