Nepal’s Ministry of Industry will set up a handicraft village in each of the five development regions of the country, in association with the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), Nepal Handicraft Federation ...
Underscoring the importance of'Handloom Mark'label,a government official said the label is a mark of guarantee offered by the Government of India,which helps people distinguish original handicraft items from the fake ones. Speaking during ...
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World Eco Fibre & Textile (WEFT) Art Exhibition, which aims to explore the vivid contemporary global textile traditions by giving an insight into the latest trends of textile arts, is going to take place from January 18 to March 23, 2013, ...
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A group of 35 weavers from various handloom clusters of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir are visiting Jharkhand, a state in eastern India which has made remarkable progress in handloom sector during the past few years. Flagging ...
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The Export Promotion Council for Handicraft (EPCH), the nodal body for handicraft in India, eyes to be a beneficiary of a chunk of the Rs. 106 billion investment from Swedish furniture retailer IKEA. EPCH said it was discussing with ...
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Several overseas textiles and handicraft firms are now increasingly participating in Indian trade fairs and shopping festivals in Malaysia, which is adversely impacting the business of Indian entrepreneurs in Malaysia, according to Bernama. ...
Nuo is a phenomenon of witchcraft culture which has its root in Chinese primitive religion and means to drive away devils. Primitive people thought that all diseases were caused by devils. The ritual activities of Nuo were already in ...
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The Bonans, with a population of 12, 212, mostly live in close communities in Jishishan Bonan-Dongxiang-Sala Autonomous County of Ganus Province. A few can be found in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Gansu and Xunhua County of Qinghai ...
Population and Language: Southwest of the Gansu Province, the area of Mt. Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang, and Salar Autonomous County is home to the Bonan ethnic minority. With a population of just sixteen thousand, they are one of the ...
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Silk is a kind of fabric elaborately made of the natural protein fibrin of pods. Products made of silk have bright luster and soft touch; silk clothes are very comfortable and soft, and has the function of adjusting body heat and moisture, ...
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Two lion dancers from the Huang Feihong Lion Dance Troupe perform at Exhibition of Achievements on the Productive Protection of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage. An embroidery by national intangible heritage inheritor Zhao Hongyu ...
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Spiralling demand in western markets such as the US, has stirred a spectacular 42 percent rise in India’s handicraft exports, which surged to US$ 106 million during November this year compared to exports worth US$ 74.6 million ...
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Speech by the Mayor Shanghai, located at the foreground of the Yangtze River Delta, the strategic passage from Yangtze River into East China Sea, and the thoroughfare along the sea route of the Far East, is a sea-port city of great ...
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Speech by the Mayor There is a great city surrounded by the Yangtze and the Jailing River; this is the City of Chongqing arising on the confluence of the 2 rivers. Chongqing has a 3,000-year long history, a trading port opened for 100 ...
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(i) GDP Data In 2005 the GDP of Zhejiang province was 1,336.5 billion RMB, among which the added value from the primary industry was 87.3 billion RMB, the added value from the secondary industry was 714.7 billion RMB, the added value from ...
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