Posts Tagged ‘featured’
 

 

“Development’s Cinderella”

Every woman I know attests to the fact that they absolutely hate the time of the month when they receive their period. It does not matter whether you have access to sanitary pads and tampons, a hot water bottle and pain killers...
by Ruth Nyambura
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America Pulls Up the Draw-Bridge

Syria, Iran, Israel please form an orderly queue. The United States is out for lunch, closed for refurbishment, putting you on hold.  OK, OK I’ll stop with the metaphors. Reading through any world news of late, be it conflic...
by Anna Burt
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Daily news Roundup – 5 October 2012

North Africa & Middle East UN Security Council condemn Syrian aggression The UN Security Council has condemned the Syria attack on a Turkish town that killed three children and two women. The attack warranted Turkish Parlia...
by Tom Dunbar
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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 Without a reform of its outdated higher education system...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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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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It’s Still The Economy, Stupid

In the first post-recession presidential election, the economy has been the major issue at hand and on American’s mind. This is no secret as the economy represents a broad ranging mechanism that affects everything from unempl...
by Laura Casey
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Daily News Roundup – 3 October 2012

  Europe Anti-EU protester scales St Peter’s Basilica A man has scaled the dome of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, apparently in protest against EU measures which he alleges penalise small businesses.  He is stan...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 2 October 2012

  Europe British Labour party planning new qualifications Ed Miliband, leader of the UK’s Labour party and main opposition, will use his speech at his party’s annual conference in Manchester today to announce a new qualifi...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Europe Without Brussels: New Intergovernmentalism and Europe’s Integration Paradox

What has been happening to the European integration process in the last decade or so can only be described as an integration paradox. Never before has there been so much discussion and debate at the European level as during the...
by Gilles Pittoors
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