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Last October, the Deepwater Project, led by Nobel laureate Martin Beniston, was the winner of the first ever GLOBAL+5 Innovation Award. Thanks to support from the University of Geneva, the Dudley Wright Foundation and ...
Germany is experiencing some difficult moments with the euro. Not only has the quality of its products created the best trade surplus, neck and neck with China, but it must also cope with a single ...
Like a photograph, numbers can also be worth a thousand words. With little need for lengthy comment, they have a way of bringing us back to reality. In this case, we are talking not percentages ...
Prototype Unit, race rocks, Canada World leader in energy, Alstom heads for marine energy and enters industrialization and commercialization of its marine turbines. Using tidal energy. Philippe Gilson, Director for Ocean Energy Alstom Hydro gives ...
Documentary tracing the life and career of iconic Muslim leader of Pakistan’s post-Soviet generation. Bhutto directed by Duan Baughman and Johnny O’Hara On Dec. 27th, 2007, Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history ...
The last-minute congressional budget deal between Democrats and Republicans that averted a government shutdown on April 8 included a $1.6 billion cut in funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - the largest budget cut ...
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has named a new director for global and multilateral issues within the EU’s new diplomatic service launched on December 1, 2010. Maria Marinaki, a Greek ...
A UN report timed for release to coincide with the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed countries (LDCs) in Istanbul (May 10-13) , notes that countries with lower carbon profiles are better placed to make their ...
Concerned that the world’s poorest are missing out on the benefits of internet connectivity, the UN convened a World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva (May 16-20) to discuss how the internet ...
The title of a summit scheduled next month in the Swiss resort of Zermatt says it all: "Humanizing Globalization – Changing Hearts and Minds.” It may sound a bit ‘pie in the sky’ or even too ...
During a working visit to Geneva (June 12-15) on the occasion of the 100th Conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he expects the Russian economy to fully recover ...
Protests by top art galleries, such as London’s Tate Modern and others across the globe are now likely to turn into celebrations following the release of China’s most famous living artist. The detention ...
The head of the Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO) has warned that the long deadlocked negotiations for the global trade treaty known as the Doha round are further threatened by a global rise in protectionism ...
A recent ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) highlights the concerns felt by Western nations about methods they see China using to try and dominate world trade. The WTO decision (July 5, 2011) said ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded over $175 million for advance vehicle research and development to 15 states in response to President Obama’s call for more fuel efficient cars to reduce oil ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking in an interview with CBS Evening News (August 11), was asked why the United States has not yet called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. Clinton ...
Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, gave as good as she got on a popular American TV comedy show (August 15) answering questions both serious and off-the wall posed by host Stephen ...
ICC (International Criminal Court) Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo said on August 19 that because Syria has not accepted the jurisdiction of the Court, the ICC lacks the authority to investigate and prosecute those responsible for ...
The US State Department has gone on the offensive to counter efforts by Republicans in the US House of Representatives to cut off funding to the United Nations unless specific reforms are made. In a ...
Global governance issues are forcing universities and colleges to increase their capacity for research and understanding of phenomena outside the national sphere. For Pierre Tapie, what happens at the interface of the worlds of business ...
President Barack Obama has inaugurated a plan in an address to the UN to persuade emerging and established democracies to make their governments more transparent by getting citizens involved and using new technologies to make ...
China may not share a long border with Laos but the untapped resources of this beautiful, rural country present a temptation hard to resist. China has become Laos’ second largest investor and trading partner with ...
What is the future of printed media? Are we heading towards the disappearance of the traditional newspapers or a re-birth of the printed media through the digital world by the use of technology ? Francis Gurry ...
In a speech at Deutsche Bank in Berlin Thursday (Oct. 6th), World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy commented on the future of the multilateral trading system and advocated for WTO members to "keep multilateral cooperation ...
Oscar winning actress Hilary Swank released a statement (October 13) giving her deep regrets for attending Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov's birthday on October 5th. Her claim that she did not fully understand the nature ...
The United Nations has taken a step forward in acknowledging the involvement of UN personnel in a human trafficking ring in post-war Bonsia by hosting a screening of the film, "The Whistleblower", at its New ...
Despite US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's insistence that recent US actions regarding China will not trigger a trade war, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stated that China would keep its currency stable in order ...
The Asia-Pacific region replaced Europe in 2010 as the the world’s second biggest market after North America for high net worth individual (HNWI) populations, according to a report by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management ...
One of the last barriers to Moscow’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) was removed in Brussels (October 21) when an agreement was reached resolving an auto parts dispute between Russia and the ...
Authoritarian governments all over the world are clamping down on internet and limiting freedom of expression. "Today we face a series of challenges at the intersection of human rights, connected technologies, business, and government. It ...
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