Asia e Oceania

Accreditation Notices

16 March 2016

ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Minister Gentiloni to meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (Villa Madama, Rome, 19 March)

On Saturday, 19 March at 12:00 p.m., the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will meet the Japanese Foreign Minister, Fumio Kishida, at Villa Madama. The meeting will be followed by a joint press conference. Journalists, photographers and TV crews interested in following the press conference are requested to apply for online accreditation by […]

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8 March 2016

Italy-Japan – “Japanese Enchantments” at the Farnesina’s kindergarten

To celebrate the Japanese ‘Hinamatsuri’ festivity – the dolls’ festival – the kindergarten of the Farnesina hosted the event “Incanti Giapponesi” (“Japanese Enchantments”) to attune children to Japanese culture through educational games conducted by specialised staff. The dolls festival, in fact, is an important occasion in which to pray for the good and health growth […]

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8 March 2016

Vietnam – Hanoi Opera House sold out for soprano Angela Nisi

The National Vietnamese Symphonic Orchestra opened the opera season with an all sold out performance at the Hanoi Theatre. The programme included arias from Italian operas by Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizzetti and Giacomo Puccini, with the extraordinary participation of star soprano Angela Nisi. The young artist was much applauded by the packed Hanoi […]

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4 March 2016

Erasmus, Italian student wins first European scholarship to Iran

A 21-year-old woman from Cagliari, Valentina Simeone, is the first European student to enter Tehran University with an Erasmus scholarship after she outclassed colleagues from other nine EU universities. The European Union has decided to broaden the horizons of cultural exchange by granting 136 funded scholarships to young people from Iran, Iraq and Yemen for […]

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4 March 2016

“Eco from China” – Italian Embassy and Institute of Culture in Beijing launch Umberto Eco Prize for the dissemination of Italian culture in China

Italy is among the nations capable of claiming the oldest continuous relations with China. The Chinese public’s serious admiration for our Country, which is considered one of the cradles of human civilisation, is witnessed by the success that the great figures of Italy’s cultural panorama have always had in China. This gives the perception that […]

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4 March 2016

Italy-Japan – Tokyo celebrates 150 years of relations

Events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan are continuing in Tokyo. With the opening of a retrospective dedicated to Caravaggio, Italy is taking centre-stage in Ueno, the cultural centre of the Japanese capital, where a Botticelli exhibition is also underway and has already attracted over 150,000 visitors. Then in […]

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3 March 2016

G7 Youth Summit

In collaboration with the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, also this year the Young Ambassadors Society (YAS) is recruiting the Italian Youth Delegation to attend the only official G7 Youth Summit, which will be held in Tokyo from 30 April to 3 May, 2016. […]

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2 March 2016

Bangkok – Enrico Rava in concert

The Chulalongkorn University Auditorium in Bangkok will host the much awaited jazz concert ” Enrico Rava New Quartet. Wild Dance”. The famous Italian jazz trumpeter and guru of modern Italian jazz, Enrico Rava, together with his band, Francesco Diodati (Guitar), Gabriele Evangelista (Double Bass)  and  Enrico Morello (Drums) will present his lastest album, Wild Dance.Stops […]

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1 March 2016

Farnesina: Uni-Italia Conference on Marco Polo and Turandot programmes

The Uni-Italia annual conference was held today on 1 March 2016 in the International Conference Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The conference is dedicated to the two governmental programmes called “Marco Polo” and “Turandot”, created respectively in 2006 and 2009, in order to attract Chinese students to Italian universities  and […]

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29 February 2016

China – Milan Furniture Fair arrives in Shanghai

The Milan Furniture Fair (Salone del Mobile di Milano) is being staged in Shanghai from Nov. 19 to 21 at the 4,000 square-metre Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Italian Ambassador, Ettore Sequi, told reporters at the presentation press conference: “History, tradition, research and innovation are the key words for the success of Italian design. The Chinese market […]

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26 February 2016

Hanoi – A host of events in 2016 to strengthen Italy-Vietnam ties

The Italian Embassy in Vietnam will organise a large number of economic and cultural events in 2016 to consolidate the relations between Italy and Vietnam. The Asian country in 2015 became Italy’s most important trade partner among the members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), ambassador Cecilia Piccioni told a press conference organised […]

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25 February 2016

Tokyo – Agribusiness, the Cibus road show in Dubai and Japan

The Cibus (International Food Exhibition) road show aimed at promoting Italian food, continues. An event was held at the GulFood trade show in Dubai and another is scheduled for March 9 at the Foodex Japan 2016 trade in Tokyo from March 8 to 11. Cibus, Fiere di Parma, ICE, the agency for the promotion abroad […]

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