Search Results for 'culture'

Cultures of China, Festival of Spring warmly welcomed in Syd...

A special global art tour featuring classical Chinese songs and dancing performances received warm hail and applause from touched audiences, when held in the State Theater in Sydney on Saturday night. The grand show named the " [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

The rise of bling culture

From hosting lavish parties where sushi is served on models' bodies to quaffing rare whiskys, the display of wealth by South Africa's new black elite is raising eyebrows among the poor majority. The rise of bling culture, most no [...]

Posted On : Feb, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Ganbei culture: Drink, drink, drink

THE Chinese Lunar New Year is the season of excess, and while the focus is usually on fabulous food and the mandate to eat, the drinking culture requires guys to drink, drink, drink. Zhang Qian goes bottoms up. For thousands of years in [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Shen Yun: Ambassadors of Chinese Culture

A week after China’s paramount leader Hu Jintao was received here, for a state visit dominated by talk of business and trade, another China was on display at the Kennedy Center. Performances by Shen Yun, a classical Chinese dance c [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Saints deny 'culture problem' despite latest scandal

St Kilda CEO Michael Nettlefold denies his club has a "culture problem" despite the suspension of four young players who broke curfew and misused alcohol and prescription drugs on a pre-season trip to New Zealand, the latest in [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Culture shock likely as Comcast takes over NBC

In the NBC sitcom "30 Rock," the self-absorbed television chief executive, played by Alec Baldwin, obsesses over what will happen to his career when his company — NBC — is taken over by Kabletown, a fictional cable [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

The corruption culture

The Supreme Court has taken up the cudgels against corruption, in which the ordinary citizen has given full support, but as it has gone to specific cases, the Supreme Court has found that there is an entire culture of corruption that has [...]

Posted On : Jan, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Gong Li says all cultures connected

While showing obvious pride for her ethnic heritage, internationally acclaimed Chinese-born actress Gong Li says acting is not a "local" job. "I think an actress should go anywhere in the world to perform," Gong told [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Senate body on culture and tourism

Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) on Saturday termed the passage of the 18th Constitutional Amendment against the interests of the country. Chairing a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee for Cultur [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Chinese Culture Minister meets Japanese, South Korean counte...

Chinese Culture Minister Cai Wu met with Seiichi Kondo, Commissioner for Cultural Affairs of Japan, Yu In-Chon, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of South Korea on Tuesday in Japan's Nara for the 3rd China-Japan- South Korea Mi [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Cultures of India dance at Uttarardh Utsav in Modhera

"Odissi always begins with Mangalacharan and Ganesh Vandana in temples", explained the noted exponent of Bharatnatyam and Odissi, Menka Thakkar, as her disciples offered a resounding tribute to Ganesha on the stage, and thus be [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Culture center story

In a Jan. 10 story about human remains found during construction of a Mexican-American culture center, The Associated Press erroneously reported, based on information received from center staff, that the work site is owned by the Archdio [...]

Posted On : Jan, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

'Parents must expose kids to Indian culture'

In this age when computers and playstations lure kids more than learning music and dance, parents must take the onus of motivating the conventional activities to expose children to Indian culture, says violin maestro L. Subramanian. &quo [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Ghana must make its culture attractive

Efo Kojo Mawugbe, Executive Director of the National Theatre of Ghana, has called on government to make Ghana's culture more attractive by positively projecting it as a living identity of the state. He said culture is currently perce [...]