The News Review:
- Edward Yang to be honored at Hong Kong festival
- Uganda: Youths Gear Up for Afro-Arab Festival
- The band will play first two nights of new festival
- SCIETY: A shopping festival of a different kind
- Perth Chilli Festival will be hot
- A film festival in New Delhi
- Botswana: Golden ldies At Splash Festivals
Edward Yang to be honored at Hong Kong festival
Hindu – Feb 21, 2008
The festival will show several of the Taiwanese-American director’s films hold a seminar on his work and display his manuscripts paintings and awards according to the official festival program issued Thursday. The festival’s Asian Film Awards will also launch “The Edward Yang New Talent Award” with the inaugural prize going to Japanese director Yuya Ishii. rganizers said in a separate statement on their Web site that Yang’s widow Kaili Peng and son Sean will present the award to Ishii in Hong Kong. Yang an American citizen died at his home in Beverly Hills on June 29 from complications from colon cancer.
Uganda: Youths Gear Up for Afro-Arab Festival
AllAfrica.com – Feb 21, 2008
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );This will be the second Afro-Arab Youth Festival since the inception of the organization in 2003. The first one was held in Sudan in 2004. According to the Minister of State for Youth and Children who is also the coordinator of Afro-Arab Youth Festival 2008 Major (Rtd) James Kinobe the festival will be attended by more than 2000 youth delegates from 66 Arab and African countries plus two representatives from countries like China India Japan Malaysia Cuba Germany Norway Canada Thailand and North Korea who hold observer status. "Uganda the host country will be represented by 500 youth and the key theme is ‘Youth in Peace and Development Partnership’" Kinobe said.
The band will play first two nights of new festival
NME.com – Feb 21, 2008
The festival which is put on by the same organisers as the Coachella Festival will take place August 8-10 at Liberty State Park in Jersey City New Jersey. Radiohead will headline the first two nights of the festival August 8 and 9 reports Urb. Meanwhile the band are set to play several US dates in May as.
SCIETY: A shopping festival of a different kind
Pakistan Dawn – Feb 21, 2008
It would not be wrong to say it is actually an extreme version of Dubai itself. Imagine a country that is mostly a desert but investing wisely to build one of the most successful economies in Asia. Its leadership is concerned about the future when oil reserves would be depleted and in order to overcome the problem the tourism industry has been developed and a desert without any special significance transformed into an exciting happening place where anyone who is someone wants to be. Perhaps we can take some tips from them.
Perth Chilli Festival will be hot
NEWS.com.au – Feb 21, 2008
article-tools –> February 21 2008 11:00am VISITRS to this year’s Perth Chilli Festival won’t only find even more to do and see getting there is easier due to a continuous courtesy bus service. The Festival will be held at Araluen Botanic Park – 10am to 5pm on the weekend of 8-9 March. While visitors will again be directed by signage on Brookton Highway to make their way to the festival via Gardiner Road under modified traffic arrangements even those who find themselves being parked some distance away will find a nearby courtesy bus stop that is serviced by a fleet of comfortable air-conditioned buses every few minutes” says Park Manager Rod Ross. “For those wishing to improve their chances of parking within Araluen it is suggested to consider attending on Saturday rather than Sunday” he adds.
A film festival in New Delhi
Hindu – Feb 21, 2008
It was at the seventh Council of Ministers Meeting of the IR-ARC held in March last year that India offered to host the festival. The IR-ARC is a regional initiative started in Mauritius in March 1997 with the aim of promoting economic and technical cooperation including expansion of trade and investment. It has 18 members including India Australia Kenya Mauritius man Singapore South Africa Indonesia Madagascar Malaysia Mozambique Sri Lanka Tanzania Yemen Bangladesh Iran Thailand and the UA E. The Australian film Yolngu Boy will be screened at the inauguration where the directors of the films from Australia Mauritius and Bangladesh will be present.
Botswana: Golden ldies At Splash Festivals
AllAfrica.com – Feb 21, 2008
While some are just ordinary night clubbers who do not necessarily follow the group some are ardent fanatics who have followed the group since its maiden years back in 1987. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );At these festivals Splash normally gives them only a few of their old tracks as the bulk comes from more recent releases. But the "old" fans often feel they have been robbed of a chance to see the groups perform golden oldies like Potilo Cool Down and Mbalembale. Splash ace producer and lead singer Dan Tshanda who is also in charge of Dalom Kids Patricia Majalisa Matshikos Peacock as well as our own Don B is coming up with a totally different national tour this time around.