Friday, March 27, 2009
National Geographic to promote Yeosu Expo
The organizing committee for Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea has joined with the National Geographic Channel in a deal to promote the international event, which hopes to draw more than 8 million visitors from around the world.
Shanghai Sweats as U.S. Races Clock to Fund World Expo Pavilion
Eight months after Beijing hosted history’s most-watched Olympics, Shanghai is finding next year’s World Expo a very different experience as the U.S. delegation struggles to raise $61 million to participate.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Can Locke save the world's fair?
Eyes turn to new Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as U.S. expo boosters look for someone to prevent China's "humiliation" over America's possible no-show at Shanghai's Expo 2010.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
World's Fair, a last gasp for America
Next month - April 24 to be exact - will mark the 45th anniversary of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. The date will probably pass without fanfare, but I bring it up only because I recently stumbled upon a tattered artifact from the fair, the official 312-page guide, which originally sold for $1.
It made me think about where we are and where we've been as a country
Sunday, March 8, 2009
All the world's a fair: Illinois couple keeps Expo spirit alive
The popular 1944 movie “Meet Me in St. Louis,” starring Judy Garland, portrayed the world’s fair of yesteryear as an exciting and dressy extravaganza, filled with romance and intrigue. People traveled for miles by train and automobile to see all the new and fascinating discoveries exhibited at these highly anticipated events.
This is the image of a world’s fair that Bob and Sherri Hous of Danville want to recreate through their extensive collection of world’s fair items.
This is the image of a world’s fair that Bob and Sherri Hous of Danville want to recreate through their extensive collection of world’s fair items.
Expo to Help China Overcome Crisis
The World Expo 2010 to be held in Shanghai can help China and the world ride through the global financial crisis, said a Chinese political advisor in Beijing on Sunday.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Italy using Milan 2015 to stimulate the economy
Italy's government has allocated €17.8 billion ($22.53 billion) to public building projects as part of its efforts to stimulate the country's ailing economy.
The funding approved Friday will go into roads, railways, schools and prisons. Other projects include money for Milan's 2015 Expo.
Friday, March 6, 2009
3M to sponsor the US Pavilion in Shanghai
During the Shanghai World Expo, 3M will put on display in the US Pavilion its environmentally-friendly products that are in line with sustainable development.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Expo organizers work to ensure US interests will build pavilion
LOCAL officials need to step up efforts to achieve a US presence at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo as the deadline for signing an exhibition contract is a little more than a month away, according to Hong Hao, director of the event's coordination bureau.
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