Asia e Oceania

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19 October 2016

China – Chengdu kicks off​ Umbria Jazz

Chengdu, China’s south-eastern metropolis with the country’s highest growth rate and a population of 16 million people, will be playing host to the Umbria Jazz Festival until October 23. The festival, organized in partnership with the Fondazione Umbria Jazz, the Italian Embassy in Beijing, the Italian Consulate General in Chongqing, the Umbria Region and the […]

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17 October 2016

Azerbaijan – The Italian Festival to promote Made in Italy products

The Italian Embassy in Baku, in partnership with the local office of ICE Agency, the Italy- Azerbaijan Association and local partners, will present the Italian Festival of Fashion and Design as one of the events to celebrate the Week of Italian Language in the World. A fashion and jewellery show, an art exhibition, a display […]

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12 October 2016

China – Gruppo Italiano Vini signs partnership with Alibaba to conquer Chinese markets

The distribution of Italian wines in China has made a quantum leap by investing in e-commerce. Thanks to the agreement between Gruppo Italiano Vini (GIV) and the Tmall.com and Wangjiu.com platforms of the Alibaba Group, the wines of 15 historic wine producers will now be made available to the Chinese public, also through the group’s online […]

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11 October 2016

Mosaic art from Friuli to Qingdao

The exhibition “Mosaics from Friuli to Qingdao”, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing, was opened on 8 October in Qingdao, in Shandong Province.   The exhibition brought to China the mosaics by the most renowned schools in the world for the first time. This school of mosaics has handed down, from generation to generation, the most […]

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11 October 2016

Japan hosts an exhibition of the works by Yumi Kori and Luca Zevi

The exhibition “Architecture and Memory – A dialogue between Italy and Japan through the works by Yumu Kori and Luca Zevi” has opened in the year marking the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan. It represents a very special meeting between an Italian and a Japanese architect who have been discussing architectural […]

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11 October 2016

Postcards from the other Italy – In Australia to teach the language spoken by Dante

In Australia there is a continuous inflow of people: the young Italians who have immigrated to the ‘land of kangaroos’ over the last 10 years are more than 80,000. One of them is Gaia, 25, from the Marche Region: she went to Melbourne to teach Italian in local schools. After spending several periods abroad with […]

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10 October 2016

Myanmar – Italy develops project to assure sustainable tourism in Myanmar

Italy stands by Myanmar in protecting the country’s cultural heritage. This effort is confirmed by the cooperation project “Sustainable destination plan for the ancient cities of upper Myanmar”, developed by the University of Florence and the Mandalay University in conjunction with the Italian Cooperation Development Agency and the Ministries of Tourism, Planning and Finance and […]

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Press Releases

7 October 2016

Bangladesh: Della Vedova to visit Dhaka 100 days after the attack

​One hundred days after the terrorist attack, which left 20 people dead, of which 9 Italian nationals, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Benedetto Della Vedova, will be in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 12 and 13 October, where he will meet the Italians resident in the capital city and pay tribute to the victims […]

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4 October 2016

China – Italian driver sets record on the most hazardous road in the world

With the amazing time of 10 minutes and 31 seconds, Italian driver Fabio Barone broke the world’s record speed on the “Tianmen Mountain Road”, in China’s Hunan Province, known as the most dangerous road in the world.    Fabio Barone was awarded the winner’s trophy by the Italian Consul Laura Egoli, who attended the Roman-born pilot’s […]

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Press Releases

30 September 2016

Afghanistan: Italy gives WFP 800,000 euros to assist refugees and the internally displaced

The Italian Cooperation allocated 800,000 euros in emergency aid to WFP (World Food Programme) to support the extraordinary plan the organization launched. The WFP plan faces up to the very severe humanitarian situation generated by the return of an increasing number of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and by a growing number of the internally displaced […]

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29 September 2016

India: today Undersecretary of State Della Vedova received the Indian Minister of Food Processing Industries Badal at the Farnesina

Today at the Farnesina Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova received India’s Minister of Food Processing Industries, Ms Harsimrat Kaur Badal. The meeting aimed to ratify, the Undersecretary said, “the relaunching of economic, trade and industrial cooperation between the two Countries” following the meeting of 4 September with Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma […]

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28 September 2016

Italian Marine Latorre to stay in Italy until the end of the arbitral proceedings

Italian Marine Massimiliano Latorre will remain in Italy. The Foreign Ministry welcomes with great satisfaction the Indian Supreme Court’s decision released today extending Latorre’s right to remain in Italy until the end of the arbitral proceedings, as requested by Italy. With this provision, the Court extended to Latorre the decision issued last 29 April by […]

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