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Monday, August 17, 2009 LONDON: London's biggest Asian cultural festival kicks off in Brentford.Gunnersbury Park once again play host to the seventh London Mela, one of Europe's largest outdoor Asian festivals.Last year the festival attracted over 70,000 people and organisers predict this year's will be equally as successful with seven zones of urban, classical and experimental music, DJs, dance, outdoor arts, comedy and food.A spokesperson for the event said: "Produced by Ealing Council and supported by the Mayor of London, the free family-friendly London Mela offers something for every generation of every community."

Saturday, August 08, 2009 MEDELLIN: More than 400 Colombian flower growers participated in Medellin'sAnnual flower festival. The colourful even features dozens of growers, known as "silleteros," carrying decorative wreaths of flowers in a long parade.Bent under the weight of the blossoms, participants, like Piedad del Socorro, said it's become a family tradition. The flowers, placed on large wooden frames call "silletas," can weigh over 100 kilograms. The tradition began in 1957 and attracts numerous tourists, like Jorge Martinez. Colombia's famed flower industry is the largest in the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in the world, after The Netherlands.

Friday, July 31, 2009:: HONG KONG: Three more Chinese-language films have been pulled from an Australian film festival to protest the planned appearance of an exiled Uighur activist Beijing blames for inciting recent ethnic violence, organizers said Thursday. Rebiya Kadeer's scheduled visit to the Melbourne International Film Festival on Aug. 8 has already prompted Venice Film Festival winner Jia Zhangke and Hong Kong director Emily Tang to withdraw their movies. The makers of the short Chinese documentary "YB Box," the Hong Kong-Taiwan romance "Miao Miao," and the Hong Kong black comedy "The Moss" have also withdrawn their films, festival spokeswoman Louise Heseltine told The Associated Press in a phone interview. The boycotting filmmakers are upset by Kadeer's visit and the screening of a documentary about her, Heseltine said. The 62-year-old U.S.-based activist is scheduled to attend a question-and-answer session after a screening of "10 C...