Cultures and Groups

San Jose theaters throw birthday bashes

18 Jun 2013

San Jose Stage and City Lights Theater Company celebrate 30 years in downtown San Jose.

Culture and tourism the ‘perfect marriage’

18 Jun 2013

The merging of culture and tourism is the perfect marriage, says Malaysia’s Minister of Tourism and Culture, Dato’ Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz.

Belgium's education system needs to answer its own questions of morality

17 Jun 2013

Critics say a 60-year-old practice of segregating faiths for weekly lessons is out of step with modern need for coexistence It is 8am and Corine Vida, 50, is preparing for a class of 13- to 14-year-olds. She arranges tables and chairs into a U shape so that the pupils have to look at and speak to one another. The empty space represents "the agora, the space in which to pour out words and ideas ...