Summertime in Germany!
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Federal Republic of Germany granted a donation of Euro 135,000 to support the Emergency Assistance Project in Menik Farm, Vavuniya implemented by Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB.) This will benefit IDPs still remaining in Menik Farm. The German Ambassador Jens Ploetner very much concerned about this group of IDPs as they have no where to go says that they are the most vulnerable and therefore, need to be urgently provided with daily necessities and attention.
Germany helps Emergency Assistance Project in Menik Farm
Dr. Stefan Weckbach, Chargé d'Affaires, presents to Mrs. Wickrasin Rathnayakege Dinisha Sudarshini Rathnayake the Master of Science Certificate in Regional Development Planning and Management of the SPRING programme 2007-2009 organised joinedly by the Technical University of Dortmund (Technische Universität Dortmund), Germany, and the Southern University of Chile (Universidad Austral de Chile) in Valdivia, Chile.
Certificate for International Degree
A stunning maritime festival on the Baltic coast: in 2010 the Hanse Sail Rostock, which starts this Thursday (August 5), is celebrating its 20th anniversary and presenting more than 200 traditional sailing vessels and museum ships until Sunday. The outstanding showpieces of the international sailing ship festival are the world’s two oldest and largest windjammers still in operation, the “Kruzenshtern” from Kaliningrad (built 1926) and the 89-year-old Russian “Sedov”.
Full speed ahead: the 20th Hanse Sail Rostock
She’s regarded as the great hope of Bayreuth and marks the beginning of a new era in the history of the famous Wagner Festival: Katharina Wagner. At just 32 she jointly heads the world-renowned Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth together with Eva Wagner-Pasquier. The festival, which opened on Sunday (25.7.) for the 99th time, rolled out the red carpet in customary fashion for its many prominent guests.
The Pop Diva from the “Green Hill”
What avariety of fates this creature has been promised: featuring as the main ingredient in a number of painful recipes, a stint as a guest mascot in Spain or a job as the predictor of winning lottery numbers. On 13 July, the city council of Carballiño in north-western Spain named the octopus an honorary citizen of the Galician town.
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Forty-five years ago, young Germans were first called upon to participate in a research competition under the motto “We’re Looking for the Researchers of Tomorrow!” – marking the birth of the Young Researchers competition. The aim of the contest is to arouse young Germans’ enthusiasm for science and research and to promote the up-and-coming young scientists and researchers who are so essential to Germany’s future.
Young Germans Engage in Research
According to a survey carried out by the British broadcaster BBC, Germany is held in higher regard than any other of the 28 states featured. It has thus topped the international poll for the second time in a row. 59 per cent of those surveyed believed that Germany’s influence in the world is positive. Germany was regarded particularly positively in France and South Korea.
The world’s most popular country
Germany in Sri Lanka
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A real-estate company finalized a deal in Germany Friday 3 September which will allow an insolvent chain of department stores employing 25,000 people...
A rash of new televisions which display images in 3D were the show-stoppers Friday 3 September as the annual IFA consumer-electronics show opened its doors in Berlin.
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Thursday 1. September that a summit of the "Weimar Triangle" is to soon be organized...
Strong results in the first half of the year show that the downward tendency has been overcome, Bruederle and Pawlak said after meeting in Warsaw.
Police in the German town of Aschaffenburg Wednesday 1 September were called to investigate after a well-dressed 65-year-old man was spotted handing out euro coins in the street...
I condemn yesterday’s attack in the West Bank in the strongest possible terms. The sole objective of this attack was to impede the start of direct negotiations.