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Cheese and wine festival in western Ukraine attracts thousands of visitors

​The 7th Cheese and Wine festival that was held in Ukraine' s western city of Lviv during the weekend, has attracted some 15,000 of visitors, the event's organizer said on Monday.

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Cultural festival in Acapulco, Mexico showcases Chinese art

​The International Nao Festival of Acapulco kicked off here about 380 km south of Mexico city over the weekend with a performance of Peking Opera inaugurating the weeklong event.

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Chinese film festival kicks off in Brussels

​A week-long Chinese film festival kicked off here Thursday to highlight the diversity of recent Chinese cinema and the talent of its directors.

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Feng Xiaogang, Fan Bingbing lead Asian honour roll at San Sebastian film festival

Feng’s I Am Not Madame Bovary, a satire about a cafe owner, played by Fan, swindled by her ex-husband wins best film and best actress at Spanish festival; Korea’s Hang Sang-soo named best director

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Chinese Women's Film Festival calls for gender equality

A film festival in China is calling for more female representation in cinema and plans to lobby the country's film industry to improve the situation.

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Silk Road film festival features cultural diversity

​The third Silk Road International Film Festival opened here on Monday, attracting 676 films from 35 countries to compete for awards.

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Magnificent Seven remake kicks off Toronto film fest

Double Oscar-winner Denzel Washington and a motley band of gunslingers open the Toronto film festival Thursday. The film festival, which runs through Sep 18, is the largest in North America and has become a launchpad for Oscar-conscious studios and distributors.

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Portuguese wine festival attracts thousands of visitors

​Portugal's Vindouro wine festival closed this Sunday after attracting thousands of visitors to the district of Viseu, around 400 km north of Lisbon.

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Slovakia's largest city festival of crafts kicks off

Traditional and homemade arts are the main attraction of the festival. The festival will allow the public to have direct contact and interaction with the artists.

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Singapore Night Festival returns to inspire with "inventions and innovation"

Singapore's vibrant arts and heritage district will once again be transformed into an imaginative wonderland by night as the ninth edition of the Singapore Night Festival returns this August with the theme of "Inventions and Innovation."

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India's top court prohibits children from human pyramids in festival

India's Supreme Court has ruled that people below the age of 18 years cannot participate in making of human pyramids during a Hindu religious festival of Janmashtami, officials said Thursday.

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Heaven, hell and earth merge as Vietnamese celebrate "Ghost Festival"

Vietnamese people are now observing "ghost month" which falls in the seventh lunar month annually and is, as tradition holds, believed to be the time when ghosts and spirits depart the lower realms and rise to visit the living.

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15 injured after man hurled 6 petrol bombs at Tokyo summer samba street festival

Six Molotov cocktails were flung into a bustling summer samba street festival in Tokyo on Sunday (Aug 7) night, wounding 15 people including a one-year-old girl.

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Xinjiang muslims prepare for Eid al-Fitr

Festivity is in the air as Muslims in Xinjiang are anticipating the arrival of Eid al-Fitr, a festival marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, on Wednesday.

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First Chinese Dragon Boat Festival held in India

For the first time in India, a Chinese Dragon Boat festival was held on Sunday in this eastern Indian metropolis, drawing large number of crowds other than the ethnic Chinese population from the old and new China town.

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Drunk drivers to serve morgue duties in Thailand

Thailand's Department of Probation Monday took 100 convicted drunk drivers to work in a Bangkok's hospital morgue.

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China's dog meat festival cooling down under criticism

​The traditional midsummer dog meat festival in a southern Chinese city has opened amid criticism, and it seems that the festive air has been somewhat diluted this year.