SHE wrote her first poem at 10 years of age, and said she felt embarrassed when her father showed it proudly to his friends. The young girl’ s burning ambition was to paint as an artist, but she turned to‘ painting with words’, as she put it, because the family could not afford tuition for fine arts at university.
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SHE wrote her first poem at 10 years of age, and said she felt embarrassed when her father showed it proudly to his friends. The young girl’ s burning ambition was to paint as an artist, but she turned to‘ painting with words’, as she put it, because the family could not afford tuition for fine arts at university.
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ASEAN to mark‘ 50’ in big fest
AUSTRALIA’ S 2017 National Multicultural Festival takes place in Canberra on Saturday, February 18, with the Philippines represented in the festival’ s ASEAN( Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Village.
The big event celebrates 50 years of ASEAN with the very first ASEAN Village.
It will showcase tourism destinations, cultural performances, culinary delights and more from Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia,
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Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Organisers of the Philippine participation are the Philippine Embassy in Yasrralumla and the Philippine Department of Tourism office in Sydney.
The National Multicultural Festival is the biggest celebration of cultural diversity in Australia.
ASEAN comprises 10 nations of South East Asia with a combined population of more than 629 million people and a rich diversity of heritage, culture and races.
An economic powerhouse of Asia, the combined ASEAN economy is Australia’ s second largest trading partner and one of the fastest growing regions in the world. •
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