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Posted on 14/05/2013 by
“This is an important time for Kalaupapa as we work to establish the Kalaupappa Memorial and to work with family members to ensure that the people of Kalaupappa will always be the interpreter of their own history. These awards are an acknowledgement of the importance of this history”, says Anwei Law, sharing the news with the ILEP Secretariat that her book has received the Samuel M Kamakau Book of the Year Award in recognition of the significance of the story of Kalaupappa as told by its people.
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Posted on 25/04/2013 by
How can the efforts of developing countries to achieve development be best supported? The European Development Report 2013 examines how global collective action could help enhance their efforts to realise a more sustainable development.
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Posted on 23/04/2013 by
Victoria Hislop’s novel The Island is one of twenty titles being gifted by volunteers who are passionate about reading around the UK and Ireland on 23rd April 2013. It is about igniting a desire to read among those who do not regularly do so, through peer to peer connections and recommendations, and bringing communities together. Why today? It is the date of birth and death of Shakespeare; Cervantes died on this date and UNESCO appointed it International Day of the Book in honour of these two internationally famous writers.
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Posted on 22/04/2013 by
Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose films have won international prizes, donated TN$1 million in prize money the day he was presented with the National Cultural Award to help finance reconstruction of the partially demolished Lo Sheng Sanatorium in Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China. At the award ceremony on 19th April 2013 he explained that he had been at a demonstration at the Ministry of Culture that morning to lobby the government to designate Lo Sheng Sanatorium as a historic site.
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Posted on 16/04/2013 by
“We feel really worried because we live just a couple of meters away from the MRT depot construction site, which is causing continual landslides. Government officials should take us into consideration,” said Chan Yun-ming, of the Losheng Sanatorium Self-Help Organisation, during a recent rally at which activists were asking the Taiwanese Department of Health to intervene. They want the Department of Health to push for relocation as it has been admitted that the construction site is causing landslides that are affecting sanatorium buildings.
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