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7 September 2015
Hong Kong – Red carpet for Cinema Italian Style

Hong Kong rolls out the red carpet for the fourth edition of Cine Italiano – Cinema Italian Style, which opens on 16 September 2015. Italian films featuring in the event include “Il nome del figlio”, directed by Francesca Archibugi, who will be attending the screening. Cine Italiano is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and […]

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27 August 2015
Dei – Vietnam: Liberalisation of energy market under way

Hanoi opens the liberalisation process for its national energy market, with the aim of ending the monopoly enjoyed by Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), a state company with a dominant role in the domestic market. The market-opening process will begin in 2016, when all operators and electricity power stations with capacity of at least 30 megawatt […]

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25 August 2015
Italy-Afghanistan – work on Herat bypass starting soon

Afghan infrastructure will benefit from a new Italian input thanks to the efforts of the Farnesina. A contract was signed today by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Works and the company that won the tender to build the first lot (20.4 kilometres) of the Herat bypass. funded by Italy, the project is of strategic importance to […]

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24 August 2015
Kyoto – Renaissance music for Leonardo exhibition

Lute player Angelo Marchese will join flautist Manuel Staropoli and soprano Rina Hayama in a performance of Renaissance music in tandem with the opening of an exhibition in Kyoto entitled “Leonardo da Vinci and the Battle of Anghiari – the Mystery of the Tavola Doria”. The event has been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute. […]

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Press Releases
21 August 2015
Indonesia: Italians missing: search expanded

Minister for Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni was pleased to receive the news of the Indonesian government’s decision to extend search operations through Tuesday 25 August for Italian nationals Daniele Buresta, Michela Caresani and Alberto Mastrogiuseppe, missing following a scuba trip near the island of Sangalaki, in Indonesia. In cases of this sort, Indonesia normally provides […]

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20 August 2015
Italians missing in Indonesia, Farnesina active to the maximum extent

The Farnesina continues to actively monitor the search for Daniele Buresta, Michela Caresani and Alberto Mastrogiuseppe, the three Italian citizens who went missing on a scuba trip on the island of Sangalaki, in Indonesia. Various naval vessels and rescue helicopters are employed in the search of a vast portion of the sea. The Embassy of […]

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20 August 2015
Sydney – Migrants and literature, Simonetta Agnello Hornby

“La scrittura dell’emigrante e dell’emigrato. Memoria e presente” is the title of a conference to be held by Italian writer Simonetta Agnello Hornby at the University of Sydney on 28 August. The event has been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney in collaboration with the university as one of the writer’s appointments within the […]

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18 August 2015
Osaka – Art history course with a special focus on Caravaggio

An art history course taught by Taro Kimura at the Italian Cultural Institute of Osaka, which puts a special focus on two masterworks by Caravaggio, will continue through Saturday in parallel with a more general course examining the great masters of the Renaissance. Read more, in Italian.

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17 August 2015
Australia launches programme to build fleet of frigates and patrol boats

The Australian government launched a programme to build a fleet of nine multi-purpose frigates for the Australian Navy within 2020, in addition to offshore patrol vessels. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Tony Abbot, who specified that the programme would cost a total of 39 billion AUD (approximately 27.1 billion EUR) and is expected […]

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14 August 2015
Kyoto – Leonardo’s ‘La Battaglia di Anghiari’

“Leonardo da Vinci e la Battaglia di Anghiari” is the title of an exhibition on the great master’s mural painting scheduled to run in Kyoto from 22 August through 30 November. The exhibition, which enjoys the high patronage of the Presidency of the Italian Republic, has been organised by the Prefecture of Kyoto, the Museum […]

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11 August 2015
Australia: Premier of Victoria state proposes metro line under the Yarra River

The premier of the state of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, has announced an important infrastructure project: a metro-rail link running between South Kensington and South Yarra and avoiding the city centre. The project includes two new metro stations and two tunnels running to 9 kilometres under the bed of the Yarra River, at a depth of […]

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7 August 2015
Myanmar: Emergency funding to IFRC for the flood victims

Italian cooperation has decided to donate emergency funding of 250,000 euro in response to the Myanmar government’s request for help to tackle the damage caused by cyclone Komen. The Italian funding will provide support for initial emergency response activities by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in collaboration with the […]

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