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20 May 2013
Afghanistan: Italy facilitates EU Ambassadors’ visit to Herat

A group of over 20 European Union ambassadors accredited in Afghanistan took part in an unprecedented visit to Herat province, at the initiative of the Italian Embassy. They met the Governor of the Province, Daoud Shah Saba; the public prosecutor, Maria Bashir; and the head of Regional Command West (RC-W), Brigadier General Ignazio Gamba The Ambassadors […]

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17 May 2013
South Korea? Closer to businesses thanks to a ‘webinar’

Is risk-free investment possible in South Korea, the world’s 11th-ranked economy? The “Internationalisation a Click Away” project created by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Unioncamere Emilia-Romagna, will be available to Italian firms as of 23 May precisely to answer that question. The project – webinars focused specifically on five countries: Indonesia, South Korea, South […]

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16 May 2013
TOKYO – Meeting on Italo-Japanese space cooperation

The Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo yesterday hosted the seminar “Italy and Japan: Space Cooperation Frontiers”, centred on the cooperative partnership that has been developing over recent years in the sectors of the use of the International Space Station (ISS), earth observation for monitoring natural disasters and space science. Considering that the two countries are […]

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16 May 2013
Japan – Over 300,000 visitors for Raphael

Italian exhibitions have been attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors: the Raphael exhibition at Tokyo’s National Museum of Western Art, which remains open through 2 June has already drawn 300,000 visitors. Large crowds also for the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s showing of Leonardo masterpieces from Milan’s Ambrosiana Library, which has welcomed 55,000 visitors since its […]

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15 May 2013
Bonino in Parliament – Foreign Ministry to contribute to Italy’s rebound

Promotion of the country’s productive system, strengthening of the European Union, the Middle East peace process, the Syrian crisis, Libya and the solution to the case of the marines held in India were some of the foreign ministry’s main planning concerns outlined by Minister Emma Bonino in her report before the Upper and Lower Houses […]

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9 May 2013
AUSTRALIA – Sydney show on italian immigration

Sydney’s Australian History Museum has joined Macquarie University in organising the exhibition ‘Viva l’Italia, Viva l’Australia’. The show, which opens on 13 May, retraces the path of Italian immigrants to Australia from the first settlements up to the past-WWII period in photos, maps, objects and filmed interviews. Read more, in Italian.

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6 May 2013
ITALY-INDONESIA – Government/Business economic mission

An economic mission involving representatives of the government and 57 Italian firms, 8 Italian banks and 10 international associations, ends on Tuesday 7 May. The meeting, sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is to focus on bilateral trade, industrial collaboration and investments. Key sectors will include automotive manufacturing, infrastructure […]

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3 May 2013
HONG KONG – Italian chamber music meets with great success

The concert by the Solisti Veneti – one of the world’s most famous chamber orchestras – was a great success with the audience in Hong Kong. The event, organised by the Consulate General and the Italian Cultural Institute, was attended by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Michael McLeod, and the Executive Director […]

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2 May 2013
SEOUL – Italian producers featured at International Wines and Spirits Expo

Italian wine, grappa and craft beers were very much to visitors’ taste at the 11th Seoul International Wines and Spirits Expo in South Korea. The Italian pavilion, organised by the Italian Trade Promotion Agency (ICE), provided space for 10 producers from all over Italy (Piedmont, Veneto, Lombardy, Umbria, Abruzzo and Campania). Read more, in Italian.

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2 May 2013
LONGITUDE: “The end of Euphoria”

“The end of Euphoria”: cioè l’Europa della crisi ma anche delle potenzialità, è il titolo di copertina del nuovo numero, in edicola, di “Longitude”, la rivista diretta da Pialuisa Bianco che analizza la crisi della Corea del Nord tra riarmo ed estrema povertà (“Kim the bully”) e il grave fenomeno che si sta manifestando nel […]

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2 May 2013
LONGITUDE: “The end of Euphoria”

A Europe of crises but also potential. That’s the message from the cover of the new edition of “Longitude”, edited by Pialuisa Bianco and now on sale. The two editorial features are “Death wish politics”, by the editor, and “Politics and the lessons of terror”, by Stefano Stefanini, Diplomatic Advisor to the Head of State. […]

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