Search Results for 'Culture'

Despite its lack of international reputation, the Portuguese...

Paris has the Louvre, Madrid has the Prado and Florence has the Uffizi. And Guimarães? Well, Guimarães has a corridor made of cardboard boxes in a room above the city’s police station. I walk slowly between the boxes. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Culture shock: working on foreign shores

Earlier this month, the Australian government ran events in Athens and Berlin called Skills Australia Needs. It was an attempt to lure Greeks and Germans to fill shortages in industries such as healthcare and engineering. It's all ver [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Culture of intolerance

The district and sessions judge, Pervez Ali Shah, who had handed down the death sentence to Mumtaz Qadri for killing former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, has left for Saudi Arabia along with his family after receiving death threats from [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Pop culture, trial starsset to dominate costume selection th...

The annual ritual of scouring the costume stores and niche boutiques for a dazzling or spooky ensemble is here, and the top contenders for hottest options are once again inspired by pop culture. Pirate attire is flying off the shelves at [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Everything Is Culture

The environmental story of the day concerns a project started by a climate skeptic named Richard Muller, a physicist who was so convinced that actual climate scientists were distorting or misreading the data that he started his own projec [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

China culture exhibition "Charming Beijing" opens in Milan, ...

China culture exhibition " Charming Beijing" kicked off in Milan, Italy on Wednesday as part of the ongoing "Year of Chinese Culture in Italy". The exhibition, which consists of a photographic and a fashion exposition, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Leaders aim to expand 'influence' of Chinese culture

China's leaders have agreed guidelines aimed at preserving "cultural security" and expanding Chinese soft power, state media reported at the end of a key meeting of Communist Party chiefs. The country will strive to improve [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 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

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 [...]