From: Videocrux on Fri, Oct 22 2010 8:19 AM

It’s the world's biggest manga show ever and it's planning to take Europe by storm. Japan Anime Live will take its "pop opera" featuring martial arts and music to six cities, starting with Paris on Saturday.

From: Videocrux on Fri, Oct 22 2010 8:19 AM

Fabrizio Verdiani, show producer says the aim of this first tour is to satisfy fans who have been following this world for years and who have been waiting 15-20 years for a show on the scale of the Japanese shows, made by the Japanese, to arrive in Europe. Performers like Taizo Shiina are huge s...

From: Videocrux on Fri, Oct 22 2010 8:19 AM

You can’t get more Japanese than manga and karaoke. And it's now hoped that a heady mix of martial arts and music will draw thousands of Europeans to a different kind of stage show. At these rehearsals in Italy before performers embark on a European tour, the work of Japans biggest manga pu...

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 20 2010 8:50 AM

Father John Webootsa, Patron, Ghetto Classics says I think they are more transparent, they are more honest, they are more industrious, the are more co operative and they are really forming a group that is not only for themselves, but for others too. And then it’s time. Not a perfect performance,...

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 20 2010 8:50 AM

Kevin Osching, Tuba player says sometimes it is hard because it takes longer than a week to learn a song and you tend to forget the national anthem which is what we are learning. Since January Kevin’s been coming here for lessons, alongside 20 or so other aspiring musicians. They're part of...

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 4:38 AM

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From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 3:00 AM

The Chopin competition is underway. Every five years, the finest young pianists from around the world descend on the Polish capital for three weeks devoted to the music of just one composer.

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 3:00 AM

Maxime Tshibangu, Actor says when 16, 17 or 18-year old burn their homes, culture centers, sports installations, you wonder how part of France’s youth lives today. The director for the Paris production is also Swedish. For her the riots were the clash of two cultures. One cultivated, established...

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 3:00 AM

Only hours before the expected start of a rescue operation to pull up 33 trapped Chile miners, engineers installed audio-visual communication with the bottom of the mine. The first man is likely to emerge into the glare of the world’s media spotlight on Tuesday after two months below ground.

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 1:31 AM

A Paris exhibition opening this week tells the story of musicians in the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution until Stalin’s death, retracing their role from early Utopian efforts until Stalin's merciless repression.

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 1:31 AM

This morning, the streets of Osh in the south of Kyrgyzstan are surprisingly calm. Yet just 4 months ago, as many as 2000 people were killed here in clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnic groups. Many people were worried recent elections would reignite those tensions. But so far, the vote has b...

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 1:31 AM

Pascal Huynh, Curator, Lenin, Stalin and Music says Shostakovich expected the worst. Every night with his family, when he heard a car stop in the street, when he heard the lift go up in his building, he thought it was the secret police coming to arrest him and his family. At that time, anybody c...

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 1:31 AM

A pro-Moscow party led by a flamboyant former prime minister proclaimed victory in Kyrgyzstan’s elections Sunday for the first parliament with meaningful powers in ex-Soviet Central Asia. The Ar-Namys party of Felix Kulov was ahead in an exit poll after elections labeled historic by the authoriti...

From: Videocrux on Wed, Oct 13 2010 1:31 AM

Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister says we don’t have the same clout as the Americans, but that's normal, because the Americans have this tradition of supporting the Israeli state, and supporting the Peace process, but bit by bit, we're getting there.

From: Videocrux on Tue, Oct 12 2010 9:39 AM

The Eighteenth meeting of Least Developed Countries (LDC) Expert Group haskicked off in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Environment Minister Thakur Prasad Sharma inaugurated the the four-day meeting jointly organised by theMinistry of Environment and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (U...

From: Videocrux on Tue, Oct 12 2010 9:39 AM

Nepal is trying to draw the attention of world community on the effectsof climate change in the Himalayan region.

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