Dubai eyes the jewel of the past to bring back the lustre of pearls
02 October, 2009, 16:28
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THERE was a time when Welsh rivers were rich with natural pearls.
But in recent years illegal poaching, pollution and river engineering have made the freshwater gems a rarity.
Now research work by Swansea University aims to safeguard the most endangered and puzzling aquatic species, the freshwater pearl mussel.
And it is possible the research could eventually lead to Wales having its own cultured freshwater pearl industry.
In the volatile international pearl market, conditions and prices change almost daily. For American retail jewelers,
the market's turbulence generally means good values, and right now there are ample opportunities to offer new
looks or stock up on best sellers as pearl producers struggle to keep prices from sinking any lower.
A portrait with pearls tells China-Taiwan tale
Cultural exchange demonstrates warming
relations between old foes
A man walks past a portrait of the Yongzheng emperor in formal court attire at the National Palace Museum in Taipei October 6, 2009. The portrait is part of the Harmony and Integrity: The Yongzheng Emperor and His Times exhibition, which is co-hosted by Taiwan's National Palace Museum and China's Palace Museum from October 7, 2009 to January 10, 2010 at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Taiwan will display on Wednesday a collection of art lent by Beijing for the first time, 60 years after a stash of similar treasures was taken out of China by the founders of modern Taiwan.To Ms. Chou's delight, Mr. Zheng agreed, and two weeks ago a portrait of Yongzheng, dressed in gold and with a string of pearls draped around his neck, was put on display in the front room of the National Palace Museum, marking the first time the two museums have co-operated on an exhibit. In another breakthrough, many among the eager crowds who flocked to see the showing have been tourists from the Chinese mainland.
For 60 years, the National Palace Museum has stood in the forested hills north of Taipei as a symbol of the Chinese civil war that never ended.
Its collection – more than half a million artifacts that were once housed in the Forbidden City –
is considered by the Communist government in Beijing to have been stolen by the fleeing Kuomintang, making the museum's very existence an affront.
But this year, the walls built in anger have quietly started to fall away. The director of the National Palace Museum, Chou Kung-shin, travelled to Beijing in February to hold her first official talks with Zheng Xinmiao, the director of the Beijing museum. She had a bold request to make – that Beijing loan her museum 37 artifacts from the Qing dynasty period so that the Taipei museum could for the first time exhibit all the belongings of the Yongzheng emperor, a despot who died nearly 300 years ago.
02 October, 2009, 16:28
On The Trail of the Melo Melo Pearl
In May 27th 2009, VP and his traveling companions (Jean Baptiste Senoble and Kham Vannaxay (France), Lou Pierre Bryl (Canada), David Bright (USA)) were visiting the melo pearl lady, who again took time to discuss with the group her favorite pearls and showed three interesting pearls including one she obtained recently from a Cat Ba Island fisherman. The pearl was not the largest or the best VP had seen but this time he had some information about its origin.
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