81.   He had been visiting South Africa to attend an arts festival.

82.   An expanded exhibition also incorporating works currently on display in France is to form a centrepiece of an international arts festival in Hue later this year.

83.   Trade exhibitions, art festivals, fashion shows and sports events are also on the agenda throughout the month.

84.   Major arts festival in ancient Vietnamese capital of Hue.

85.   Meanwhile a theatre group sponsored by the Egyptian culture ministry has scrapped plans to attend a Palestinian arts festival in Jerusalem, troupe director Nast Abdel Menei said.

86.   The annual Babylon arts festival has opened with defiance of the United States and condemnation of the five-year-old UN embargo on Iraq.