FBC News, 31 October 2025, Fiji

The Indonesian Ambassador to Fiji Dupito Simamora says Indonesia remains committed to strengthening cultural and people-to-people connections across the Pacific through collaboration, training and shared values.

UNESCO, 30 October 2025, International

With these new designations, the Network now includes 408 cities across more than 100 countries. For the first time, the UCCN welcomes Creative Cities of Architecture—a new creative field in addition to the seven existing ones: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Media Arts and Music.

ANTARA News, 30 October 2025, Indonesia

Culture Minister Fadli Zon urged that the protection and advancement of culture should not be merely a matter of the past, but rather an investment for the future.

Konstnärsnämnden - The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, 30 October 2025, Sweden

Despite the challenges of the pandemic, artists' incomes have increased between 2019 and 2022, according to a new report from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and the Swedish Agency for Cultural Policy Analysis. But the artist group still earns significantly less than other professionals – and the differences between the sexes have become larger.

Nordisk Ministerråd - Secretariat of the Nordic Council of Ministers, 29 October 2025, International

At a meeting in Stockholm on 29 October, the Nordic ministers for culture decided to fund a new Nordic network for language models for artificial intelligence. This is an important initiative to ensure that the development of language models reflects the Nordic countries’ unique linguistic and cultural traits.

UNESCO, 28 October 2025, International

The Regional Workshop on the Ratification of UNESCO Culture Conventions entitled “Sustained Engagement and Peer-to-Peer Cooperation for Cultural Heritage Protection: Towards Regional Ratification in Eastern Africa”, held on 15-16 October 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya, brought together more than 50 participants from Burundi, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda.