Obama’s speach after the victory on health care reform, a major step in American history!
22/03/2010
27/02/2010
ANTONIO BANDERAS IS FILMING IN BARCELONA
The Spanish famous actor Antonio Banderas is in Barcelona shooting parts of the new movie thriller “Knockout”!
The film director Steven Soderberth ended on Thursday the shooting of his new movie “Knockout” with Antonio Banderas in Plaza Real in the centre of Barcelona! The film team consisting of 36 persons including Antonio Banderas have been moving around in the city shooting a car race in Ronda Sant Antoni, gun shots in calle Anselm Clavé and also indoor scenes in a flat in calle Ausiàs March. 150 technicians and 600 extras has been involved in the outdoor shooting of the film!
The film shooting started the 2nd of February in Dublin and now moved on to Barcelona to go further to Santa Fe in New Mexico before it’s completed!
Read more about it in the following articles!
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17/02/2010
WORLD MOBILE CONGRESS IN BARCELONA
One of the biggest trade fairs in the world is held right now in Barcelona, The World Mobile Congress, where leaders in the mobile technology and cell phone market gather to network and collaborate!
Read about the first day in this article!
Hotels and venues in Barcelona are telling us that they notice a decrease in the number of booked hotelnights, the corporate events are less than earlier years etc. The biggest shock though was that the mega player Nokia decided not to have a stand inside the fair this year, but to outside in the pavillion only… But other big players like Ericsson, Samsung etc are here to win market and despite that a handful skipped the fair this year there is plenty of good news to be found in the mobile industry! Read more about in Businessweek!
In the trade fair area of Plaza Espanya another interesting venue is also located, the old bullfighter stadium! Barcelona has had two stadiums until a couple of years ago when the catalans took the decicion to make one of them into a comercial centre (as they are not passionate for this activity). They lifted the whole bullfighting arena 3 metres up in the air and started reconstructions! Within short they will transform this scene of the crime into a comercial shopping mall and hopefully attract more tourists than the typical trade fair visitor to the zone!
04/02/2010
CHANGE WE BELEIVE IN
Obama says yes to meet the Dalai Lama despite political tension!
President Obama intends to meet the Dalai Lama even though China has warned that such a meeting would harm bilateral ties, a White House Spokesman said Tuesday! Please see full article below!
