The Prime Minister’s Office has recently issued a tender for setting up a new Internet site for “government news.” Observers and officials said the new site is intended mainly for public diplomacy and marketing. Sources familiar with the details said the site will have “considerable power to serve for PR purposes.”

Hundreds of citizen diplomats will arrive in Washington, D.C., this week for the Global Ties U.S. National Meeting, the first of many events and outreach efforts throughout 2015 to mark the 75th anniversary of State Department international exchange programs.

The Prime Minister’s Office uses employees from the National Public Diplomacy Division’s information and communications technology department to monitor the Israeli media for items about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, and their children, Haaretz has learned.From internal documents, emails and conversations with current and former department employees, it emerges that flagging down reports on Sara Netanyahu or the family’s private affairs is an even higher priority than collecting news items on diplomatic, security or economic issues.

 Indonesias international diplomacy in the next five years focuses on upholding the publics interests and welfare, stated Foreign Affairs Minister Retno L.P. Marsudi. The foreign affairs ministry applied down-to-earth diplomacy that prioritizes the public interest, is beneficial for the people, and is connected with the needs of the public, the minister stated during the foreign affairs ministrys leadership working meeting, which was officially opened by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo here, Monday. 

Last year the Superbowl had an estimated audience of 111.5 million viewers. But world over there is an audience for sport, just different sports. This post we’re going to look at the biggest sporting events in the world, at least by television audience size.  One, because it’s fun. And two, because public diplomacy is always in search of audiences, and these sporting events are unquestionably some of the biggest.  

Pointing out that PM Modi has put soft power or public diplomacy to optimal use, Dasgupta said that instances of this are evident from Modi's visit to the US and Australia, when he reached out to the Indian diaspora there by showing the international community the popularity he enjoys among them. 

U.S. President Barack Obama will appear in public at an event attended by the Dalai Lama in Washington in the coming week, the White House said Friday, a move sure to anger Beijing.

Japan’s latest hostage crisis has exposed shortcomings in Japan’s public diplomacy and raises questions about the advice Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received in publicly announcing $200 million in humanitarian aid to help those displaced by conflict with the Islamic State group.