While here, [film director Daniel Wallentin] hopes to catch up on Malaysian films which he did not have the opportunity to watch in his country because 90 per cent of the movies screened there are from Hollywood, and only less than one per cent from Asia.

The Times of India and Pakistan's largest media house, The Jang Group, launched Aman ki Asha with a commitment to peace... In the first phase, as we celebrated our common heritage, culture and food through performances and events, the response we got was more than overwhelming.

A recent literary salon brought together an Indonesian writer and a German-Indonesian musician. Azhari is "the author of Aceh", while Tomi Simatupang builds a bridge between two worlds.

Religious diplomacy can and must become an effective promoter of political and economic peace between nations. This is the bottom-line message of the second World Summit of Religious Leaders, to be held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, on April 26 and 27.

A delegation of dignitaries from Shinagawa, Japan, will arrive in Portland today for a five-day celebration of a sister city relationship that began more than 25 years ago. Although Portland has three other sister cities -- Cap Haitien, Haiti; Mytilene, Greece; and Archangel, Russia -- Shinagawa was Portland's first.

So far, so good. Indians haven't shown this much enthusiasm for American fast food since McDonald's came to New Delhi and Mumbai more than a decade ago.

In both spirit and in structure, the Cochabamba meeting is meant to give greater voice to civil society, indigenous groups, and those who hail from countries most impacted by the effects of climate change.

A new information portal launched Monday has been described as the world's first internet clearing house aimed at tracking unethical air cargo carriers transporting humanitarian aid and relief supplies to war zones while simultaneously smuggling arms and narcotics - at times, to the same conflict areas.