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22nd January 2015 Hanoi, Vietnam
2015 – The Year of ASEAN?
My 2015 began after a relaxing Christmas here in Vietnam with my family. Getting back to work after the holidays started with a trip to Manila. On my way to Manila, I experienced some new beginnings. I took the new Nhat Tan bridge and expressway and saw the newly completed international terminal. (When I first arrived in […]
21st January 2015 Washington DC, USA
Falklands Symposium: Q&A with Dr Steven Campana (Canada)
Following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin, the first ever Pan–American Science Delegation to the Falkland Islands will participate in a week-long mission to showcase the beauty of the UK South Atlantic Overseas Territories and immense opportunities for scientific research and collaboration in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Scientists from the US, Canada, Chile, […]
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21st January 2015
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Opening up to economic development
The UK’s 2010 Bribery Act is in some ways a daunting piece of legislation. It obliges us all to think about how we operate. It set a legal framework in which we make those judgements. It goes to the heart of ethical and responsible practices. So spending 5 days talking about it with experts in […]
21st January 2015
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Farewell to Melbourne
I’m currently paying my farewell visits to major Australian cities before I depart at the end of my posting in February. Today I’m in Melbourne. It’s a city I must have visited around thirty times in the course of my four year posting. That reflects its importance within Australia. With the second largest population it’s […]
21st January 2015
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UK/Romania Poetry Collaboration: Found in Translation
I was invited last week by the National Science and Arts Foundation and the Mayor of Sector 2 in Bucharest to help give out the prizes at the fifth edition of the “Om Intre Oameni” awards ceremony. The event, held on Romania’s National Cultural Day, the birth date of poet Mihai Eminescu, honoured Romanians who […]
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21st January 2015
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Our Common Agenda
The headlines have been full of conflict and argument about extremism and fanaticism. Yet there is a paradox in the debate. On the one hand “We Are All Charlie” and “We Are All Moath”. But on the other there is a perception of conflict between “The West” and Islam. Language which emphasises “jihad” or “crusade” […]
20th January 2015 Boston, USA
Guest Blog: Summer at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
It is especially rewarding for me when the collaborations created through my work impact the scientific experiences of young scientists – to me, it feels like I am doing my part to pay forward the kindnesses I was shown as a student. My first project upon joining the UK Science and Innovation Network in 2013 […]
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20th January 2015 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 12-18 January 2015
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20th January 2015
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The Jesuits: revival, restoration or re-establishment
Earlier this week, the embassy co-hosted with the Pontifical Gregorian University – the university in Rome run by the Jesuits – an event to commemorate the bicentenary of the decision by Pope Pius VII to re-establish the Society of Jesus in 1814, 41 years after its suppression by Pope Clement XIV. This was much more […]
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19th January 2015
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Geoffrey Wetherell
With his grandchildren in his old factory about 20 years ago Geoffrey Wetherell, who passed away at the age of 95 on 23 December, was at the time of his death the longest surviving Briton in Ethiopia – by quite some way. He first came to Ethiopia with the British armed forces in 1941. With […]