Azim Premji, the billionaire boss of Indian software group Wipro, is close to signing a deal with the Government to train British students in IT, engineering and software development – in Bangalore. Mr...
Reporters Without Borders - RSF - announces its world ranking of press freedom, and the news is not good: France, 44th, one place further back. She has lost 33 since the rankings in 2002! "The European model...
opinion by sankeur | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 148 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Markus Reinhardt, the chief of security for the Davos World Economic Forum was found dead police in Switzerland posted on their website Markus Reinhardt, 61, was found dead in a hotel room on Tuesday. Police say it appears to be a suicide. Reihardt was the head of...
The Davos World Economic Forum marks its 40h Anniversary at a time when faith in large economic institutions and the people who run them, is at an all time low, and so too it seems is the interest in Davos. The...
opinion by Sudha Krishna | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1302 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
National American coptic Assembly - washingtonDC - Mr. Morris Sadek-ESQ President- Gilad Shalit , born 28 August 1986) is an Israeli soldier who was captured on 25 June 2006 by Palestinian militants...
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30 December 2009Who knows well about Burma? Anyone ever heard of Burma? One might wonder where the Burma is?Well, Burma is a beautiful country rich in natural resources located in South East Asia sharing border with Thailand, Laos, China, India and Bangladesh.Burma has been...
We are drowning. And not just in credit card bills and tuition payments. We are drowning in false choices. We are told that we must choose between making money and making a difference, that it is not possible to...
opinion by joshtetrick | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 366 views | 22 recommendations | 5 comments
BY RANA ROSEN [this story appeared originally on Immigration Here & There, a project of the Medill School of Journalism] [to lead story Go west young Indian nurses] Purushotan Jangir prays every morning before...
created by doppelt | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 319 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
" Simpsons characters pictured in a mob revolt with tourches. Image Credit: The SimpsonsLet The Revolution BeginIt's ironic that Barack Obama, whose friends were disciples Saul Alinsky, an ardent social...
opinion by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1238 views | 16 recommendations | 1 comment
Japan’s PM Taro Aso want to counter Climate change in spite of economic downturn. As the business daily Nikkei said citing unnamed government sources. Aso want to order a stimulus package that...
created by Uwe Paschen | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago 550 views | 47 recommendations | 3 comments
If you ask the following question: Where do the best students sit inside a classroom? 9 out of 10 are likely to respond “in the front”. If you ask: why? The likely response is “to pay more...
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By, Uwe Paschen H. Clinton is to visit Japan for her first official overseas trip as US Secretary of State for the Obama administration, She will meet with Prime Minister Taro Aso. Wile here in Japan she will most...
created by Uwe Paschen | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago 728 views | 69 recommendations | 9 comments
US President Barack Obama sent a trade representative to the World Economic Forum in Davos in an attempt to pacify countries who were calling the new US budget plan 'protectionist'. They argue the plan to 'buy American' will seriously hurt the global economy. Obama sent...
created by Rob Walker | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 104 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
This piece from the Socialist Review in 1998 reads like the economic equivalent of Groundhog Day. The same massive crisis (then the Asia currency crisis), same players (Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson), same...
opinion by Hopenow | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 227 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
What exactly is capital? Well in this case it's the outstanding mortgages (the money it has lent and expects to get back) plus the value of the business itself, all minus the debts it owes (including to savers).For example - bank "Safe & Secure" has lent out £1000 (plus...
created by Anton Howes | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 274 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments