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Press Releases
23 April 2015
Death of Giovanni Lo Porto: Minister Gentiloni offers his condolences

In the face of the distressing news of the death of Giovanni Lo Porto, I wish first of all to express my sympathy for his mother and all his family.  The tragic circumstances of his killing in a region of the Punjab on the Afghan-Pakistani border make the circumstances of his death even more dramatic. […]

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21 April 2015
Melbourne – Businessman Giuseppe Garofalo receives the Star of Italy

Giuseppe Garofalo, one of Australia’s leading Italian entrepreneurs, has received the Order of the Star of Italy from the Consul General in Melbourne, Marco Maria Cerbo. A leading food and drink importer, Garofalo is a key figure in Australia’s Italian community and contributor to numerous charities. The honour is one of the first decided by […]

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21 April 2015
Australia – Masterpieces of Italian neo-realism by Rossellini and De Sica

Australia will soon have a chance to discover masterpieces of Italian neo-realism, with a film season organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and featuring Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica. The season starts on Thursday 23 April 2015 and will run each month until November, at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The opening […]

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16 April 2015
Tokyo – Expo, the big push to win over the Japanese

Promoting the Milan EXPO is a game to be played not only in our own country but it is also fundamental to promote it all around the world through the tourism board (ENIT), the diplomatic-consular network and the Italian Cultural Institutes. Even for faraway Japan, ENIT has created a new leaflet that will be introduced […]

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14 April 2015
Beijing – Made in Italy, Giro d’Italia makes a stop in China

The “Giro d’Italia” will be making a stop in China this year, but we are not talking about the celebrated bike race. This time the ambassador of Italy to Beijing will be wearing the pink jersey. The embassy, in collaboration with other institutional representatives of System Italy in China, have organised the second edition of […]

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14 April 2015
Tokyo – “Money and Beauty” exhibition opens

Japan offers its public a look at how art, history and economy are entwined in an exhibition entitled “Money and Beauty: bankers, Botticelli and the bonfire of the vanities” at Tokyo’s Bunkamura Museum. Its aim is to show the complex relationship between the development of commerce, the birth of the modern banking system and the […]

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3 April 2015
DEI – China: new Prima Power production facility opens

A new Prima Power production facility opened last week in the economic and technological development zone in Wujiang, a district of Suzhou city in the province of Jiangsu. Prima Power is the machinery division of the Prima Industrie S.p.A. Group, established through the merger of two leading specialists in the laser and sheet metal machinery […]

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3 April 2015
China – Zunyi to host Chinese-Italian cultural promotion centre

Construction work has begun on a Chinese-Italian cultural promotion centre in Zunyi, a city of 6 million people in Guizhou Province. The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by numerous local politicians and officials and by the Italian Consul General in Chongqing, Sergio Maffettone. In his speech, the Consul General invited authorities from the region to visit […]

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2 April 2015
Shanghai – Road show for EXPO Milan 2015 under way

The EXPO Milan 2015road show, which runs from 2 to 6 April in Shanghai, opened with a presentation organised by the Italian Consulate General in collaboration with Shanghai City Council and the third Chinese Pavilion (CCCUP). The Consulate underscored the importance of the EXPO for our country, and the significant Chinese presence, with 3 pavilions […]

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2 April 2015
Vietnam – 11 Italian companies at the Propak fair

Eleven Italian companies in the plastics and packaging sector have taken part in a trade mission to south-east Asia to present their products at the Propak Vietnam trade fair in Ho Chi Minh City. The fair was an important opportunity to establish new, and strengthen existing, commercial relationships. The mission was organised in collaboration with […]

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2 April 2015
Vietnam – 11 Italian companies at the Propak fair

Eleven Italian companies in the plastics and packaging sector have taken part in a trade mission to south-east Asia to present their products at the Propak Vietnam trade fair in Ho Chi Minh City. The fair was an important opportunity to establish new, and strengthen existing, commercial relationships. The mission was organised in collaboration with […]

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