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13th August 2013 Havana, Cuba
From Honiara to Havana for health reasons
I met the Ambassador of the Solomon Islands a few weeks ago. The Solomons (Honiara is the capital) are in the Pacific Ocean over 13,000 km from Cuba and they only have a few embassies around the world so you might wonder why they have recently opened one in Havana. The Ambassador, Simeon Bouro, explained to […]
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13th August 2013 Chicago, USA
The Pi’s the limit – a computer for everyone!
The following is a guest post by Sophia Wootton, summer intern at the British Consulate General in Chicago. Sophia is a recent graduate of the University of Birmingham. In only my second week as an intern for the British Consulate General in Chicago, I have been lucky enough to meet British software engineer, Rob Bishop, […]
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13th August 2013 Chevening, UK
A Botswana Chevening Scholar Visits The Mother of Parliaments
Our latest blog entry is by Bogolo Joy Kenewendo, a 2012 Chevening Scholar from Botswana. Bogolo is studying for an MsC in International Economics at the University of Sussex. If you are a Chevening scholar and are interested in submitting a blog entry for the Chevening Conversations blog, then please email us at fcoscholarships@fco.gov.uk. This is a story of […]
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12th August 2013
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UK economy returns to sustainable growth
That was the principal message of Permanent Secretary at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, Martin Donnelly, when he visited Australia last week. He said that the UK’s GDP growth was expected to reach around 1% this year and perhaps 2% next year. Australian economists and business people he met shared this positive assessment. […]
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12th August 2013
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Working Together
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was celebrated on 9 August, and to mark it we have a guest blog from Thomas Hart, Country Director of Health Unlimited, an organisation that this Embassy is supporting with a project in Guatemala’s second city, Quetzaltenango. Over to you Thomas… I was recently asked in a […]
12th August 2013
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
Working Together
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was celebrated on 9 August, and to mark it we have a guest blog from Thomas Hart, Country Director of Health Unlimited, an organisation that this Embassy is supporting with a project in Guatemala’s second city, Quetzaltenango. Over to you Thomas… I was recently asked in a […]
12th August 2013 Toronto, Canada
Canadian science news: 5-11 August 2013
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12th August 2013 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Voluntary Service Overseas – Broadening Horizons
The following is a post by Adam Lancashire, VSO Volunteer. Ever since that first induction day with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) I knew that volunteering abroad was something I had to do. The stories from returned volunteers and the collected professionalism of what I saw and heard really made it clear to me that this […]
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12th August 2013 Vientiane, Laos
Laos through my eyes – Mark Steadman
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. Little did I know in 2004 when I first set eyes on the place I described as ‘Nearly Heaven’ in my blog, how tragedy would lead me […]
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9th August 2013 Kingston, Jamaica
No Small Plan – Can a global logistics hub transform Jamaica ?
Jamaica, though having some bright moments, has been dogged by slow economic development for as long as I can remember. Jamaica’s potential for greatness still exists as the country is characterized as having big dreamers, an entrepreneurial spirit, having tremendous cultural influence and an abundance of natural resources. One of those big dreams is manifesting […]
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