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10th October 2012
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No to Capital Punishment
Today is both World and European Day against the Death Penalty. As British Ambassador to Ethiopia, I am responsible for lobbying the Ethiopian government on issues that are important to the United Kingdom. And in partnership with other European Union (EU) Ambassadors, I will be calling on the Ethiopian government to abolish the death penalty. […]
9th October 2012 Toronto, Canada
Collaboration Development Awards 2012
Back in July, we announced our first ever Collaboration Development Award(CDA) programme. The CDAs are small mobility grants for researchers to travel between Canada and the UK and set out plans for longer-term collaborations in areas of strategic importance to SIN. The quality of applications was very high, with many proposals strong enough to qualify […]
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9th October 2012 Ottawa, Canada
The CSeries and UK-Canada Collaboration
Recently I spent a couple of days in Montreal, one of my favourite places in Canada. A great time to visit and discuss the outcome of the recent Quebec elections, the ongoing corruption investigation, as well as take the temperature of the business community on the economy, and on CETA, the Comprehensive Economic and Trade […]
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9th October 2012 Dublin, Ireland
Railway cooperation? All on the right track!
I am just back from London,where I hosted a Poland/Romania/UK rail for growth event. Both the Polish and Romanian delegations were led by Ministers and included government representatives and rail industry experts. Both countries saw similar key challenges and opportunities in areas like safety, project management and funding future investment, for example the use of […]
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9th October 2012 Bucharest, Romania
Great Britons in Romania
Today I would like to present the story of yet another great Briton in Romania, as told by Peter Thomas, Head of Political Team in the British Embassy in Bucharest: Fifth in our series of Great Britons in Romania is Sally Wood-Lamont, President of the Romanian National Paralympics Committee and founder of the Lamont Centre, a […]
9th October 2012
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Greening Ethiopia
Ethiopia is already one of the greenest countries in the world (though that may surprise many). And with its ambitious but far from incredible plans to become a middle income country with zero net carbon growth by 2025, through implementation of its new Climate Resilient Green Economy strategy, it should continue on this path. The […]
9th October 2012 London, UK
My unforgettable Olympic experience
In her guest blog, Brunei’s first female Olympian, Maziah Mahusin (who is also the Sultanate’s 400m record holder, since the Games), describes what it felt like to carry the nation’s flag into the Stadium; to run for her country (despite a virus), and to meet Usain Bolt and Her Majesty The Queen. Back in Brunei […]
8th October 2012
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Green days in Mexico
We are looking forward to Green Solutions and Energy Day this week Every year more British companies in the renewable energy and environmental sectors come to Mexico to learn about the wide business opportunities in the region. My team of UKTI hosted 8 British companies in the UK pavilion during the GREEN Expo last week. This includes […]
8th October 2012 New York, USA
Using Social to Go Global
LONDON – British companies growing overseas learned about using social as a way to connect to potential clients and partners at Google’s campus in Tech City during Social Media Week London. The very well-connected and new-to-social crowd had the opportunity to engage with experts from government and industry. I had the opportunity to speak on […]
8th October 2012
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Medicines and modernisation
An appropriate issue to blog about on the day a British biologist, Sir John Gurdon, wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Sir John’s research on nuclear transfer in frogs in 1962 shattered the dogma that cells only develop in one direction – from young cells to mature cells. He showed that differentiated or […]