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17th December 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Zero Tolerance
Last week, I marched from Vihara Maha Devi Park to Independence Square behind a 0% Tolerance for Corruption banner. The march was organised by the Sri Lankan Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption, enlivened by military marching bands and hairy black corruption devils, and sponsored by a range of local and international organisations, […]
15th December 2015 BCG Shanghai
UK and China scientists and businesses gather to launch a £9m research call to combat AMR
It seems no generation is free from war, but its nature seems to be ever more varied compared to the 20th century. Aside from conventional struggles against the likes of the Taliban, or the more conceptual fight against terrorism, according to the Lancet, the Guardian, and even the “war cabinet” of the seven Research Councils, […]
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15th December 2015
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The voice is clear and strong with a hint of pain. “Love,” she sings, “is a losing game”. I’m not at a concert or watching a movie. I’m at Sentez College, a school in the Turkish city of Sakarya, to present certificates to students who have passed their Trinity College London and Cambridge English exams. […]
15th December 2015 Beijing, China
use high intensity focused ultrasound technology to treat uterine fibroids
Early in December, I accompanied John Pearson Deputy Head of China Department, FCO, Tina Redshaw CG and Mark Watchorn DCG to visit Chongqing Haifu Medical Technology Inc. and the Haifu Hospital in Chongqing. This was my 7th time to visit Chongqing Haifu. Chongqing Haifu and its UK partners have been trying to use high intensity […]
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15th December 2015 Guangzhou, China
The Second Workshop on SKA Data Processing and HPC at Guangzhou
I attended the works the Second workshop on SKA Data Processing and HPC on 9 December. The workshop is organized by Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and took place at the National Supercomputer Center—Guangzhou. The mathematicians, engineers, scientists and industrialists exchanged ideas on the challenges and the plans for the computing and data processing of […]
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15th December 2015 Beijing, China
Breaking down barriers
I am always struck, when I attend one of the many workshops that we fund, by the immense value of getting the right people in a room together. Whoever they may be, when you put some Chinese experts on something in a room with some British experts on something, the magic starts to happen. Let […]
14th December 2015 Geneva, Switzerland
Developing Countries Need a Successful WTO Most of All
Occasionally you come across a fact that changes how you think. One such moment for me was when I discovered how the world had managed to meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger between 1990 and 2015. It turns out that we met it five years early, meaning that nearly 1 […]
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14th December 2015
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MARKING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY ON RADIO IN THE CARIBBEAN
Congratulations to the TCI Human Rights Commission, and it’s director Doreen Quelch-Missick, on arranging a stimulating morning’s conversation on Radio Turks and Caicos on Thursday, 10 December, to mark International Human Rights Day. With guests from government, opposition and civil society the programme was a great boost to the key work of the Commission. In my […]
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14th December 2015
Soft Skills in Hard Times video blog series(IV): Madalina Vlangar
In this fourth episode of the Soft Skills in Hard Times, our guest blogger, Madalina Vlangar, explains how soft skills can make a difference when working in law enforcement and peace keeping operations. Madalina Vlangar is working as an Internal Affairs Attaché at the Romanian Embassy in Spain, and was one of our guest speakers […]
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14th December 2015 Athens, Greece
In Praise of the Benaki Museum
Queen Sophia Avenue leads from Constitution Square to Kostas Varotsos’ glass-sculpted “Runner” at the Hilton. It is a broad street, lined with trees (now being heavily pruned for the winter) and bearing, for much of the day, heavy traffic. The neighbourhood combines something of London’s North and South Kensington. Here are the neo-classical buildings of […]