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4th November 2013 Washington DC, USA
Remember, remember! The fifth of November….
The following is a guest post from Carole Johnson, First Secretary Asia in the Foreign & Security Policy Group at the British Embassy, Washington. Returning on the metro from a concert at the Kennedy Center, last Saturday night (and what a fantastic living memorial that arts centre is) I was met with carriages of cartoon […]
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4th November 2013 Vientiane, Laos
Laos through my eyes – James Kennedy
This article is part of a series of guest blogs contributed by Brits who have lived and worked in Laos, or who have other interesting links to Laos. Compacting the hot sticky rice into a ball in my fingers and dipping it in chilli sauce, the smell and the adhesive feel of the rice bring the memories […]
3rd November 2013 Sana’a, Yemen
Violence must stop
Yemen’s National Dialogue continues to make progress and the closing plenary has re-started its work after the break for the Id al-Adha. But it still faces considerable challenges: it is time to reach agreement where possible and move to the next steps. There is a lot of valuable work done by the National Dialogue that needs […]
1st November 2013 Brasilia, Brazil
A shared goal: the fight against poverty
Brazilian health minister Alexandre Padilha announced plans on Monday to produce a combined measles and rubella vaccine for developing countries, mainly in Africa. Brazil is following other leading emerging nations such as China and India in investing in biomedical technology to supply vaccines and medicines to developing countries at lower costs than those produced by […]
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1st November 2013
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
Expanding the mind
I’ve had my mind expanded recently. I heard how adult education had lifted someone out of depression. I discovered organisations in Britain that I never knew existed. And I’ve been reflecting on whether Britain is particularly focussed on adult education. It may not be the right question. “Adult education” seems a British term. There is […]
31st October 2013
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Trade, Transparency and Vitamins? A snapshot of a busy week in a bilateral relationship
It has been all go between Guatemala and the UK this week. On Monday the Guatemalan Foreign Minister was in the UK attending the Parliamentary Conference on Drugs Policy Reform. He met the president of the Open Society Foundation, George Soros and with Norman Baker, Home Office Minister for State for Crime Prevention so that […]
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31st October 2013 Havana, Cuba
La actualización del modelo económico británico
Al igual que Cuba, el Reino Unido tuvo que lidiar recientemente con algunos problemas económicos severos. En el 2008-2009, en medio de la crisis financiera y económica global, la economía británica se redujo en 7.2 %. La crisis dejó al modelo del Reino Unido expuesto a un crecimiento económico inestable y desbalanceado. El rango de […]
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31st October 2013 Ottawa, Canada
An idea to an award: winning the UKTI’s Graduate Entrepreneurs Festival
The following blog is by our guest blogger, Richard Loat who was part of the team that won 1st place at the UKTI Global Graduate Entrepreneurs’ Festival An idea to an award: winning the UKTI’s Graduate Entrepreneurs Festival I have been fortunate in many ways to be a child of the world. British-born, I grew […]
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31st October 2013 Washington DC, USA
Staying Committed to Aid Transparency
I’ve been looking forward to October 31st for some time now. Why you ask? Because it marks two occasions that signal the UK’s commitment to aid transparency – the official full launch of DFID’s Development Tracker website and the first day of the 2013 Open Government Partnership Summit. That may not have been the answer […]
31st October 2013 New York, USA
The Importance of Being Costumed
New Yorkers have long cultivated a reputation for being nonplussed. We may well see a fistfight on the subway, an inflatable rat in front of a construction site, and an A-list movie star in fewer than five blocks– but we’re not going to let on that we did. Because in a city of 8 million […]