Foreign news

CMG’s 2022 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala: what to expect

Published

2 years ago

September 9, 2022

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 10 this year and China Media Group (CMG) will hold a Mid-Autumn Gala with miscellaneous performances and advanced audio-visual technology.

The gala will be held in Zhangjiagang, Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province. In addition to the epic “Moon” theme, the gala will also feature the rich local culture of Suzhou.

Suzhou pingtan is an art form of storytelling and ballad singing in the Suzhou dialect. The gala will take three classic songs of Suzhou pingtan as chapters.

Song and dance, symphony, and opera art will be staged, interspersed with musical and sketch comedy performances, and they will all be flavored with traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Artists and performers from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan will contribute to a happy, festive audio-visual feast.

Technological effects will be the highlight of the gala.

CMG will send the 4K/8K UHD OB vans that have participated in the broadcast of the Beijing Winter Olympics to produce programs for the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala.

Over 200 large UHD screens will be set in more than 22 municipalities and provinces, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shandong, Jilin, and Liaoning.

The gala will be broadcast to global audiences at 8 p.m. on September 10 via different CMG channels and radio frequencies, as well as overseas social media platforms

Share on Facebook

Foreign news

EU Cautiously optimistic on Syria engagement – Official

Published

1 week ago

January 28, 2025

The Gleamer

Irish foreign minister Simon Harris said on Monday that the European Union (EU) “is cautiously optimistic on Syria engagement” but called for more deeper engagement to strengthen relations with the country.

Harris said this at a news conference held at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, the Belgian capital.
“It’s early days, but I think there are signs of optimism. But it is important that we continue to engage.

“I don’t think it would be a good scenario if any other geopolitical actors and forces engage with Syria and for the European Union not to be in a position to intensively engage with them,“ he said.

In her remarks, Ms. Kaja Kallas, the Vice-President of the EU described Syria’s future as fragile but said that the bloc needed to take the right steps.
“But of course, we need to see the right steps as well. Right now, they’re saying all the right words, and they are doing also the right things.

“Therefore, we have this set step-for-step approach, and if they take the steps, then we are willing to take the steps as well,’’ she said.

On the war in Gaza, Harris said President Donald Trump and his team are very much a party to the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after the intensive work that was put in.

He conceded that the Trump administration put in a lot of effort to arrive at a ceasefire agreement in the days before his assumption of office for a return to the White House.

“I think that was important and there is no doubt that the intensive work invested by the Trump administration played a very significant role in helping to bring about a ceasefire – a ceasefire that has now seen a cessation of hostilities, the killing, and the bombings.

“Also, that has seen the flow and has seen hostages being released. It’s really important that the ceasefire is in place.

“It is also important, though, to acknowledge in that ceasefire agreement itself, it does talk about people being able to return, and therefore, I think it’s important that we’re consistent in the approach that we take.

“The priority, I think, needs to be on implementing to the letter, the ceasefire agreement.”

Share on Facebook