Today... Admission to 45 historic visitor attractions across Scotland is free, in celebration of St Andrew's Day on Sunday. Landmarks are taking part today and tomorrow (historic-scotland.gov.uk ).

Britain's trendiest artist walked away with the Turner Prize.

ADVISORY, Dec. 2, 2008 --

The government is planning to set up a Centre for Management of Cultural Resources and also a network of Indian Institutes of Art and Culture on the lines of the IITs to safeguard India's rich heritage, Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni said here Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 (Bernama) -- Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal urged all quarters including members of parliament to stop talking about Malay supremacy as it can create suspicion within the society.

Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith today proposed giving jobless council tenants a stake in their homes if they try to find work.

THE International Day of Disabled Persons falls today. I wonder how many of us are aware of this fact. My aunt, Sariah Osman, was a quadriplegic and a wheelchair user. Until her death recently, she was unselfish and unforgiving in championing the rights of the disabled in Malaysia.

There are certain places that I would like to visit before I die, Tokyo, Mumbai and Havana among them. But, like grilled cheese sandwiches, I don't travel very well and there are many more places that I would rather die than visit.

Quite a lot of people care about China's "Tibet issues", there is always a "Shangri-La" with oriental mystery, shadowiness and idealism flashing in their minds. Tibet indeed has such mystery: spectacular scene of snow land plateau, unique language culture, long aged Tibetan Buddhism...however, sometimes it's easy to ignore a basic fact if let the imagination spread freely beyond the practice, that ...

Civil society organizations (CSOs) are inherently revolutionary anywhere in the world, and belong to the same ideological camp. They stage movements against excessive state control and corporate dominance. They are strong critics of the dominant culture.