The programme “Made in Italy… Made Easy” aims to promote Italy’s cuisine and beverages to Metro customers, including hotels, restaurants and industrial meal providers.

During the week, Italian specialities will be prepared by Metro chefs from goods manufactured in Italy. Famous Italian wine producers such as Bersano and Lungarotti will also be showcased.

Metro Cash and Carry group currently runs eight wholesale centres in HCMC, Hanoi, Haiphong, Danang and Can Tho.

(Beijing, 13 May 2010) – One of China’s most celebrated contemporary female artists, Yu Hong, presents her latest works at The Opposite House in Beijing, selected from her recent solo show at the Guangdong Museum of Fine Art.

Yu centres her works and practice on her experience as a woman, taking inspiration from both her own life and the lives of others around her. In these works of resin, familiar figures are painted on silk and carefully imbedded within sheets of resin. Each transparent plaque shimmers under light, reflecting waves of luminosity that capture frozen moments of time and memory. This body of extraordinary work carries on Yu’s ongoing meditation of everyday experiences in China today.

“The scale of Yu Hong’s art and the interesting medium she has chosen interacts perfectly with our space. Its feminine lines complement our six-storey-high atrium and the shadows of our draping mesh at different times of day.” says Anthony Ross, General Manager of The Opposite House.

On the collaboration, David Tung, Director of Long March Space Gallery in the 798 Art Zone shares, “We are honoured to contribute to the great series of exhibitions at The Opposite House with the works of China’s most celebrated female artist Yu Hong.  The Opposite House’s commitment to bringing the best art programmes has established it as a prominent venue for culture and lifestyle.”

Zurich/Switzerland, May 13, 2010—The campaign for Komodo, one of the 28 Official Finalists in the New7Wonders of Nature global campaign, toured central Europe over the past weeks. In Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Hamburg, amongst other stops, masses of people voted for Komodo on laptops—and discovered more about the endangered Komodo dragon and its lush Indonesian habitat.

Komodo National Park is amongst the elite 28 Official Finalists that were chosen by the people of the world from more than 440 nominees. The race to choose the Official New7Wonders of Nature is now in its final phase and the Finalists are getting ever more creative in their campaigns to reach people worldwide.

About New7Wonders:

The New7Wonders Foundation is an NGO dedicated to fostering global dialogue and mutual appreciation through worldwide participation in its voting campaigns. The campaign that chose the man-made Official New 7 Wonders of the World was the first-ever global election and received more than 100 million votes. The current campaign, to choose the Official New7Wonders of Nature, is now in its third and final voting phase, and expects some 1 billion votes.

Note to media: All data is ©New7Wonders 2010. Recognized news media outlets may reproduce the ranking information available on the new7wonders.com website in a news context only, providing that the following text is always shown in a visible manner: Ranking © www.new7wonders.com

(source : Travel Daily Asia)

The Columbus is the second cruise liner to be received by Saigontourist during the first half of January 2009.

More than 200 tourists disembarked from the vessel to explore HCMC, while the rest joined a tour to discover the delights of the Mekong Delta on January 12 and 13.

The Columbus is scheduled to weigh anchor at Nha Trang Port in Khanh Hoa Province on January 14 and Tien Sa Port in Danang City on January 16.