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Thousands attend Leicester Diwali lights switch-on

Communities gathered on the Golden Mile on Sunday to celebrate the Hindu festival with music, singing, dancing and a firework and laser display. Leicester's celebrations of the festival of light are thought to be the largest outside I [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Evasion culture

Culture appears to play an important role in tax evasion, and the current enforcement policies seem less effective in dealing with it, observe Jason DeBacker, Bradley T. Heim, and Anh Tran in ‘Importing Corruption Culture from Overs [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Calgary named Culture Capital of Canada for 2012

Calgary will share the 2012 Cultural Capital of Canada title with the Niagara region in southern Ontario. The designation comes with a $1.6-million federal government grant. Calgary-Centre MP Lee Richardson made the announcement Friday on [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Keeping traditional Chinese culture alive

After all, you don't see people playing Chinese instruments like the two-stringed erhu or the bamboo flute or writing beautiful calligraphy with brushes dipped in water, like you do in Beijing. In Taiwan, it's more common to [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Cuban Culture Day Concerts

Through a special program that promises great performances this month, plans for the celebration of Cuban Culture Day are being made by the National Center for Concert Music, an institution made up of soloists and groups of that art form [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Cultural entities: Potohar folk music and poetry reading pul...

“The festival aims at promoting the rich musical heritage of Potohar,” said Lok Virsa Executive Director Khalid Javaid. Talking to mediapersons, he said that Lok Virsa was in a unique position to highlight the culture, art and [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

SLY CULTURE

You have to hand it to Simi Garewal. She tries. She tries very hard to do what Karan Johar pulls off so effortlessly, that is, getting stars to reveal their secrets on TV. Apparently, in a recently recorded episode of Simi Selects, the la [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Editorial: Boozing culture hurts All Black brand

All Blacks management will be furious about the revelations two of the side's stars, Cory Jane and Israel Dagg, went out on a drunken bender just three days before the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal versus Argentina. Jane and Dagg we [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Culture Club Reopens With A Bang

Culture Club threw its grand reopening party last night, and they certainly did it right! With a Michael Jackson impersonator, non-stop '80s music, and themed drinks like "Vanilla Ice," "Bon Jovi," and "Smurfi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Artist Tarshito has designs on Delhi

India meets Italy at the Circle of Making — a cross cultural festival that opens in the Capital next week. Besides concerts and quizzes, an interesting part of the event is the exhibition of art by senior Italian artist, Tarshito ak [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Pop Culture, Wealth Spur Medical Tourism in Asia

Medical tourism is one of Asia's fastest growing industries and shows no signs of losing steam even as the global economy wobbles. SEOUL (Reuters) - It is one of Asia's fastest growing industries and shows no signs of losing steam [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

No end to Knox as pop culture obsession

Those are the sensational words that have captured mainstream headlines in the United States, Great Britain and Italy during the Amanda Knox saga. On Monday, the buzz phrase was "judgment day." Would the flaxen-haired, photogeni [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Silicon Valley Gold Thieves Target Indian-Americans

A husband, wife and their 6-year-old son had just returned from the airport to their suburban home in Fremont. It was a sunny Sunday afternoon, Sept. 11, as they unloaded luggage from their car. Seemingly out of nowhere, two men appeared, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Canadian culture for new citizens

New Canadian citizens can now enjoy a number of cultural attractions in the city for free with the Calgary launch of the Cultural Access Pass by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship. Initiated in Toronto in 2008, the pass allows new [...]