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20th January 2016 Moscow, Russia
Of Science and Synchrotrons
In late November SIN Russia delivered – an extremely successful follow-up to our February 2015 Novosibirsk UK-Russia science cafe on the next generation synchrotron light sources. We teamed-up with the world famous Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, and the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source (DLS), to deliver a talk on synchrotrons in […]
19th January 2016 Asuncion, Paraguay
Keeping busy! Priorities for 2016
Happy New Year to all our readers! First of all I would like to welcome Nick White, our new Deputy Head of Mission (DHM), to the Embassy team. He comes to us with previous Paraguay experience – a real plus – and is married to a Paraguayan – an even bigger plus! I’ll leave Nick […]
19th January 2016 Singapore
How to make a successful application: ASEAN CSR Network
With the bidding round well underway, we’re often asked what a successful project looks like. Instead of writing a long technical description, we asked one of our successful implementers from last year to describe firsthand how the SE Asia Prosperity Fund has helped them deliver their project and what they thought helped in making a successful […]
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19th January 2016
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77 million reasons to like Turkish
Let’s be frank: my Turkish isn’t much good. I’ve been learning regularly for over three years; I wish I spoke it better. Thanks to my excellent teachers, however, I’ve made some progress: you can compare, for example, my first video blog in Turkish in August 2013; my video about Lundy Island, in November 2013; and […]
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19th January 2016 Beijing, China
THIS IS ROCKET SCIENCE …. IN ACTION
Within UKTI, the Advanced Manufacturing and Transport team have responsibility for the Space sector and we work very closely with the SIN team in this and other areas of technological innovation. Last weekend I and my colleague Li Qian accepted the invitation from China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC – a subsidiary of China Aerospace […]
19th January 2016
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Life Chances: Laudato Si’ half a year on
Pope Francis’s encyclical letter Laudato Si’ – On Care for our Common Home was released to the public seven months ago. A lot has happened in the interim. Most important was an ambitious new global climate agreement secured in Paris in December, welcomed and pushed for by the British government, at which 180 countries representing […]
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15th January 2016 Havana, Cuba
Health and Education in Capitalist Countries
There’s one misconception that I hear time and time again in Cuba that needs correcting. Barely a week goes by without someone telling me that in capitalist countries people have to pay for all health and education services. That’s simply not true. In many, many countries with capitalist economic systems, health and education are provided […]
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15th January 2016 Washington DC, USA
Tackle the American market like you would Disneyland
With over three hundred million consumers, fifty state governments, entrepreneurial dynamism, century old corporate giants and competition that bite, the US is an enormous, diverse and challenging market to understand. Many UK businesses have a false sense of security when it comes to doing business in the US – often misled by our shared “English” […]
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15th January 2016 Singapore
2016-2017 Bidding Round – Now Open!
We are pleased to announce that the bidding round for the South East Asia Prosperity Fund for 2016/2017 is now open. If you have ideas for a project on economic development or to help reduce climate change, check out our website for more information on the fund’s priorities and how to apply. The bidding round closes […]
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13th January 2016 Hanoi, Vietnam
Youth Parliament programme
First of all, let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a healthy and successful New Year. “Chuc mung nam moi”! For my first blog of 2016 I thought I’d try something a little different so I invited Nguyen Ngoc Lan, a student at the Hanoi Law University, to share this blog with me. Lan […]