22nd October 2010 Chevening, UK
The third blog from Catherinne de la Torre from Peru – Periodo: del 27 de setiembre al 02 de octubre del 2010 A diferencia de la semana anterior, esta resulto bastante más movida tanto por las inducciones de la universidad, del programa de maestría y de todos los servicios que la universidad ofrece; así como […]
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22nd October 2010 Chevening, UK
Catherinne de la Torre continues her blog; Periodo: 20 al 26 de setiembre del 2010 Esta semana inicio mucho más pausada que la anterior, sucede que nos encontrábamos muy cansados. Entre la preparación de un viaje de esta magnitud, que de por si demanda de mucha energía, y el proceso de aclimatación, estábamos agotados. De […]
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15th October 2010 Chevening, UK
Women and children are badly affected by the absence of water and sanitation services; therefore women and children will get the most benefit from water and sanitation development program. Rini astute, Indonesia Water shortage is a serious problem that faces the Middle East and Palestine is no exception. In addition to the arid/semi arid climate, […]
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24th September 2010 London, UK
This week I travelled with my friend, German Minister for Europe, Werner Hoyer, to Moldova and Romania. In both Moldova and Romania we discussed the important issue of Transnistria. Whilst in Romania I met with economy Ministers to talk about the European single market, and energy security. To find out more, and to hear Werner […]
20th July 2010 London, UK
Find out about the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in this week’s video blog.
5th July 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan
The Cabinet Ministers of the new British coalition government are queuing up to come to Pakistan. In the past three weeks I have hosted both our new International Development Minister, Andrew Mitchell, and our new Foreign Minister, William Hague. It makes sense. Pakistan is already Britain’s second largest development programme and this is quite likely […]
28th June 2010
The British Business Group in Pune invited me to their AGM (Annual General Meeting) in mid June. Pune is Maharashtra State’s second largest city and I have heard estimates of a population between four to six million. The national census this year should give the figure. Pune is the major centre for the automotive sector […]
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11th June 2010
Many people are talking about India’s ‘Second Tier’ cities. The phrase doesn’t strike me as the kindest, with the hint that they haven’t quite made the grade. But it is commonly used, to differentiate the large number of growing two million plus cities from the huge metropolises like Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai. I visited briefly […]
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26th May 2010
My aim for this new blog is to provide snapshots every two weeks from Mumbai illustrating the vibrancy of UK–Indian business relations. I am fortunate to meet in my job hundreds of UK and Indian businesspeople, ranging from the heads of some of the UK’s largest companies, and India’s ( and the world’s!) richest businessmen, […]
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14th January 2010
For months now, Ukrainian political parties have been accusing each other of preparing massive fraud during the first and second rounds of the Ukrainian presidential election on 17 January and 7 February. So I’m intrigued to hear several respected experts express the view this week that, in fact, many of the accusations being thrown around […]