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Lights, dance and now comes the real action
Shanghai :: China | about 1 month ago
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The crowd had started gathering at the Chinnaswamy Stadium as early as 5pm. The Champions League Twenty20 opening ceremony was scheduled at 7 and the DJ at the stadium had just started using the pressure horn. But soon, the crowd noise was so high that...
Tags: opening ceremony
Inspector calls again
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Oscar-nominated director of Billy Elliot and The Reader - first staged An Inspector Calls at York's Theatre Royal. The production, restaged in 1992 at the National Theatre in London, took a radical approach to the text, presenting the action in a house...
Tags: London Organising Committee, Damon Albarn, preliminary discussions, artistic director, london organisers, paralympic games, opening ceremony, organisers committee, Beijing, United Kingdom, London
Modi proud as event stretches its wings
Cape Town :: South Africa | 7 months ago
Credibility IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi thanked the South African government and Cricket South Africa (CSA) for extending help to host the second edition of the league in just four weeks. During his speech at the opening ceremony on Saturday night at...
Tags: South African, IPL, opening ceremony
Water rates going up for Palm Beach County customers
Lake Worth :: FL :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Palm Beach County Commissioners today approved the second rate increase in two years for county water customers. The new 11.75 percent rate increase for county water customers follows an 18 percent increase in 2007...At the same time, the county will...
Tags: rate increase, Lake Worth Beach, Palm Beach County Commissioners, opening ceremony, sewer rate, grand opening
Radio New Zealand: Opening ceremony will go ahead at Pasifika
Auckland :: New Zealand | 9 months ago
Credibility Auckland City's Pacific Island Community Board says the opening ceremony for the world's largest Pacific festival will go ahead despite the financial problems that have hit the event. The Pasifika Festival's opening concert had been cancelled and the...
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Brown hails 2012 as 'job creator'
London :: United Kingdom | 10 months ago
Credibility Prime Minister Gordon Brown hailed London 2012 as an important "job creator and growth generator" in the face of the economic downturn. As he toured the Olympic Park in east London, he said about 30,000 people will have worked there by 2012. "On top of...
Tags: East London, Gordon Brown, olympic park, prime minister, job boost, london olympic, brown hailed, minister gordon, opening ceremony, job creator
Balinese pair earn Indonesia second gold
Jakarta :: Indonesia | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Balinese athletes collected 570 points to beat Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Binh and Thao Vu Thi and Singaporean pair of Nordinawati Mohd Sadali and Norishah Anwar who scored 562 and 520 points for the silver and bronze respectively...Earlier in the day Indonesia...
Tags: Bali Island of Indonesia, beach games, Indonesian, asian beach, Jakarta Post, opening ceremony, Southeast Asia, Jacques Rogge, games opening, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President Ahmadinejad returns home
Tehrān :: Iran | about 1 year ago
Credibility China - President President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Tehran from Beijing, China, Sunday morning. He paid a day-long visit to Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on Saturday. Upon arrival at the Tehran Mehrabad...
Tags: ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, peace, China, Beijing, Iran, paralympic games, Hassan Qashqavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, opening ceremony
China seeks to enhance defense ties with Switzerland
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Senior Chinese military official Guo Boxiong said on Monday that China would like to enhance defense and military cooperation with Switzerland. Guo, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, was speaking in a meeting with Swiss minister of defense,...
Tags: Beijing Paralympics, China, U.S, opening ceremony
Brazilian media: Opening ceremony 'moving'
Brasília :: Brazil | about 1 year ago
Credibility Brazilian media on Saturday lavished praise for the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Paralympic Games. SporTV, Brazil's National sports TV network, ran a live broadcast of the ceremony. During the show, the presenter repeatedly used "moving"...
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