Posts Tagged ‘featured’
 

 

A Confucian noose: China’s universities are serving the state, but failing the people

China’s government has abused a nationalist neo-Confucian ideology to maintain its power in uncertain economic times – to the detriment of the country’s own future. Without a reform of its outdated higher education system...
by Gareth Lewis
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UK Foreign Policy: A Coalition Success

Since taking office, Britain’s coalition government has gotten plenty of bad press. U-turns, scandals and a double-dip recession have accompanied a slippery slide in public opinion. But this government initiated one extremely...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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Focus on Africa: Should we be amused or should we take offence?

It seems to me that the African identity has been under siege from a barrage of demeaning attacks by some isolated but significant players abroad. These attacks have generated an angry discourse across many (social) media platf...
by George Gachara
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 4 AUGUST 2012

Africa and Middle East Syria urgency heightens in crisis Reports of new fighting have come out of Syria’s two main cities Damascus and Aleppo. Both are strategically very important to both rebels and official forces as the co...
by Tom Dunbar
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Food, Blankets and Shelter—Only Basic Needs?

Let’s just go ahead and state the obvious—it is much easier for an NGO to market basic needs programs than it is to market programs directed at resolving more complicated issues. Because the more complicated issues (for...
by Tiffany Brittingham
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Moscow’s March of Millions

Last Saturday’s ‘March of Millions’, which took place in central Moscow, drew tens of thousands of people to protest against President Vladimir Putin, the latest in a series of protests against the current Russian governm...
by Bryony Cottam
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Daily News Roundup – 6 September 2012

  Europe Mario Draghi to unveil bond-buying plan for the eurozone Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, is expected to unveil details of a new bond-buying plan later today.  The ECB is expected to help cut...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Venezuela Decides

Venezuela’s elections are just a few days ahead and right now the two main contenders are competing in close race, according to the main polls in the country. As expected, both contenders Hugo Chavez, 53, going after a th...
by Victor Julio Galicia
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