PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN THE NEWS

AUG 27, 2008
Festival Offers Flavour of Modern Taiwan
The Vancouver Sun
World in a Island is the theme of this year's Telus TaiwanFest at the Plaza of Nations, which will feature delicious delicacies, rock 'n' roll, eco-art, bartending gymnastics, and the high drama of dragon boat races. Those are just the headliners.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Iran: Cultural Cooperation Helps Expand Ties Among Nations
Mathaba
Iran's Ambassador to Japan has said that one of the ways of expanding ties among countries is cultural cooperation. Speaking to IRNA at the inaugural ceremony of an exhibition titled 'West Asia Miniature, Persian Miniature' featuring miniatures by a Japanese artist in the Iranian Embassy in Tokyo, Mohammad Ali Sarmadi said that cultural cooperation and such exhibitions can leave positive impact on the two countries' ties.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Revealed: Britain’s Secret Propaganda War Against Al-Qaida
The Guardian
A Whitehall counter-terrorism unit is targeting the BBC and other media organisations as part of a new global propaganda push designed to "taint the al-Qaida brand", according to a secret Home Office paper seen by the Guardian.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Berlin’s IFA Exhibition to Include Two Ethiopian Photographers
Tadias
Berlin’s Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA) , will host a photo exhibition which includes the works of two promising Ethiopian photographers - Aida Muluneh and Michael Tsegaye. The exhibit entitled ‘Bamako 2007′ touches on several themes including the landscape of the African continent, colonial heritage, HIV/AIDS, self-portraits, and wall paintings.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Fair Trial Unlikely, Karadzic Argues
The New York Times
The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has called for the dismissal of charges against him of genocide and crimes against humanity because, he says, negative publicity has made a fair trial impossible. In a three-page filing dated Sunday and released on Tuesday, he said any presumption of innocence had been “reduced to a joke” by what he called “demonization in the media.”  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Korea Undervalued Overseas
The Korea Times
According to Anholt's nation brands index in the fourth quarter of 2007, Korea ranked 30th out of the 35 countries. Another index released by East West Communications, a Washington D.C.-based nation branding consultancy, said the country placed 28th out of 200 countries.   Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Artistic Propaganda In Ossetia
Forbes
By conducting this piece, Valery Gergiev--an ethnic Ossetian and maestro par excellence who performs with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera--propagandized the Russian "liberation" of South Ossetians from the cruel hands of their Georgian oppressors...The blatant use of art in the service of partisan (and military) politics during the appearance of the famed St. Petersburg Kirov Orchestra in Ossetia startled the West, where this sort of cultural diplomacy is normally reserved for more positive displays.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
U.S. Election Helping America’s Image Worldwide
America.gov
The U.S. presidential race, with "the spectacle of democracy at work," is a great thing for America’s image worldwide, and historically has given a boost to U.S. public diplomacy, Nicholas Cull, a professor of public diplomacy, tells America.gov.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Europeans bet big on Obama
Financial Times
This year’s US presidential election has aroused more excitement abroad than perhaps any since 1960, and Senator Barack Obama has inspired the kind of fascination that John Kennedy once did. From racehorses to the Obama bumper stickers I have seen in English country villages to the huge crowds in Berlin (where Mr Obama may have tried a little too obviously to don JFK’s mantle), Europe loves Barack. If the electorate in November were the citizens of the European Union, he would win in a landslide.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Learn from the Chinese
The Times of India
In two years’ time, New Delhi will host the Commonwealth Games. The question of whether they will be ready is important. Sports shows are branding exercises. The world sits up and notices when you host a successful sporting event. The Beijing Olympics have been yet more evidence of China’s prowess as an economic power.   Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
A Biblical Seven Years
The New York Times
Olympics don’t change history. They are mere snapshots — a country posing in its Sunday bests for all the world too see. But, as snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful — and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
US official lauds Qatar’s education drive
The Penninsula
Qatar's initiative to broaden its economic base and usher reforms and large investment in education sector were yesterday praised by James K Glassman, US Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.  Read more...

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