BANGKOK: Moviemov a great success

Bangkok’s cinemas speak Italian, with Thai subtitles. The Moviemov Italian Film Festival, now in its third year, opened with a gala evening for 700 guests and an Italian delegation that included director Marco Risi. Moviemov 2013 includes an Ettore Scola retrospective and a selection of independent Thai productions selected with the help of the Ministry […]

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WARSAW: jazz by Pieranunzi

The heart of Warsaw is beating to an Italian rhythm. At the International Open-Air Jazz Festival, Enrico Pieranunzi on piano, Mauro Beggio on drums and Luca Bulgarelli on bass delighted an audience of 4000 in the city’s Old Town Square. The performance was supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw. Read more, in Italian

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Dassù: «Dal Giappone una lezione per l’Europa» (La Stampa)

Caro Direttore, l’economia giapponese sembrava non doversi risollevare più. Eppure, non c’è nulla come una visita a Tokyo per dare l’idea di un Paese che ha ritrovato sicurezza, dopo quasi venti anni di stagnazione. L’Abenomics, insomma, è prima di tutto una iniezione di fiducia in sé: costruita sull’espansione monetaria e sul nazionalismo geopolitico. Funzionerà? Con […]

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Pistelli: «In Iran si è aperta una finestra, negoziamo prima che si richiuda» (La Stampa)

Oggi in Iran c’è un interlocutore e la politica ha il dovere di tentare il dialogo, anche perché la finestra aperta dalle ultime elezioni non resterà tale all’infinito». Al telefono da Teheran il vice ministro degli Esteri italiano Lapo Pistelli tira le somme della maratona di incontri avuti nella Repubblica islamica all’indomani del giuramento del […]

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Messaggio del Ministro Bonino per la commemorazione della tragedia di Marcinelle

On 8 August, Italy remembers the Marcinelle tragedy, the worst mining disaster ever to occur in Europe, in which 262 miners of 12 different nationalities lost their lives. 136 of them were Italian. In memory of that day, 8 August is a day of Commemoration of the Sacrifices of Italian Workers Throughout the World. On […]

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DEI/Sole 24 Ore – latest news from around the world – Sub-Saharan Africa

Macfrut: Promoting the Italian model for the fruit and vegetable sector An Italian model to develop the fruit and vegetable sector in Africa. That’s the goal of a presentation to representatives of the embassies of Sub-Saharan Africa, illustrating the Macfrut trade fair taking place in Cesena from 25 to 27 September 2013. More news (in […]

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MIAMI: 49 Unesco sites in Italy

The photography exhibition of Italian sites included in UNESCO’s World Heritage list closed today, 7 August 2013, in Miami. The travelling exhibition features 150 photographs and stills from famous films shot at the sites in our country, which has the world’s greatest concentration of world heritage sites. Italy plays an important role in helping emerging […]

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BULGARIA: Verdi’s Nabucco on the silver screen

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco” will be screened at the opening of the 3rd Nikolay Ghiaurov International Musical Film Festival on 8 August 2013. The performance, featuring Ghena Dimitrova, Renato Bruson and, Dimitar Petkov among others, was filmed at the Verona Arena and broadcast by the RAI on 13 November 1981. The screening was organised in collaboration […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTE – Reminder: 68th Session of the UN General Assembly (New York, September 2013)

Reminder: Please note that the website of the United Nations http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/UNGA68.shtmlcontains all information concerning the press accreditation necessary to follow the proceedings of the 68th session of the United National General Assembly in New York, whose ministerial week will begin on 23 September 2013. All media personnel not already accredited with the UN must register […]

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Domani si rinnova la commemorazione della tragedia del Bois du Cazier: Vice Ministro Archi a Marcinelle

57 years have passed and the memory still lives on. Once again, the site of the Bois du Cazier mine – which in 2012 became a UNESCO world heritage site – will be the setting for ceremonies commemorating one of the worst mining tragedies in modern times. 262 of the 274 miners working on that […]

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Nicola Piovani e l’Orchestra Italiana del Cinema: la colonna sonora ufficiale dell’Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti diventa un video

A new soundtrack has been composed by maestro Nicola Piovani to celebrate the Year of Italian Culture in the USA. Entitled “Allegretto Made in Italy”, the score, for symphony orchestra, was performed by the Italian Film Orchestra. It was produced with the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Embassy and Italian Cultural […]

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Foreign Ministry Secretary General Michele Valensise receives Ambassador Andrian Yelemessov at request of Embassy of Kazakhstan

Foreign Ministry Secretary General Michele Valensise has received Ambassador Andrian Yelemessov at the request of the Embassy of Kazakhstan. Secretary General Valensise reiterated to Ambassador Yelemessov the Foreign Ministry’s surprise and disappointment over his unorthodox handling of the case of Mrs. Alma Shalabayeva with the Italian authorities. The Secretary General was following the line taken […]

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