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Mayor of Riga, Latvia’s capital, Mr. Nils Ušakovs, especially sent Ms. Aija Kalniņa (fifth from right), deputy director of the Culture Board of the Department of the Education, Culture and Sports, to ask the advice of Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze (fifth from left) on how to promote culture and sports as well as how to pass on cultural heritage.

Alexey Chepa, a Moscow Congressman, especially asked Mr. and Mrs. Oleg Bekker to visit Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze (left) on his behalf. Dr. Hong explained to them the importance of love, peace, and cultural education.

President of FOWPAL, Dr. Hong, Tao-Tze (right) presented a customized crystal featuring a celestial dragon to Mr. Viacheslav Kalganov (left), Deputy Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg.

Myanmar’s deputy UN ambassador, H.E. Ms. Hmway Hmway Khyne, rings the Bell of World Peace and Love and makes a wish for everlasting peace in the world.

FOWPAL youth volunteers joined the Peace Day Party at Times Square in New York and attracted people to happily dance with them.

Shaikh Hussam bin Isa Al Khalifa, President of His Royal Highness the Prime Minister's Court, rings the Bell of World Peace and Love.

Alaghbari Salem Mohamed Hasan (5th from right), a journalist and the executive secretary of an association of higher education in UAE, Karamba Diallo from Senegal (4th from left), and Park Eunhea from South Korea (5th from left) take a group photo with Tai Ji Men dizi.

The highlight presentation of the festival was what Tai Ji Men did in the prologue of 2017 Universiade.

Screen Australia today announced $4.15 million in production investment funding for 15 new documentaries through the Documentary Producer and Commissioned programs. The projects include a companion piece to upcoming SBS drama Sunshine; actor Sam Neill’s voyage through the Pacific as he retraces and interrogates the impact of Captain Cook’s travels; and a chronicle of 76 female scientists’ landmark expedition to the southernmost continent in the world, Antarctica. This is the final documentary funding announcement for the 2016/17 financial year.