Technical Ventures Announces Qualifying Transaction
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 14, 2013) - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Technical Ventures RX Corp. (TSX VENTURE:TIK.P) (the "Corporation"), a...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ... Atlanta...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ... Myanmar...Read more...
SA spends R1 trillion on infrastructure
The government will have spent R1 trillion on infrastructure in the five years up to April 2014. ||| The government will have spent R1 trillion on infrastructure in the five years to the end of the current administration’s term...Read more...
Fighting Privatization in Chile
Display Lili Loofbourow , Boston Review , May 14, 2013 Interesting account of the privatization of education that took place in Chile under Augusto Pinochet and the evolution of the system over the decades that followed,...Read more...
World Bicycle Relief Receives Schwab 2013 Social Entrepreneur Award at World Economic Forum- Africa
Buffalo Bicycle Company, the manufacturing subsidiary of World Bicycle Relief, for outstanding work in health, education, employment and the environment by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and World Economic...Read more...
Israel “Apologized” But It Won’t Forget
by Michalis E. Diakantonis The recent “apology” of Israel to Turkey for the Mavi Marmara incident of May 2010 has changed, according to some analysts, the geopolitical balance in South Eastern Mediterranean. Was the “apology”...Read more...
Energy in Africa: a brighter future
During a session at the recent World Economic Forum on Africa, held in Cape Town, experts discussed the latest developments in addressing the continent’s energy infrastructure constraints. Here are the highlights from the...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ... Morning...Read more...
Global Shapers Attend Economic Forum
Politicians, business tycoons, heads of state and representatives of the largest NGOs in the world met in Cape Town last week for the World Economic Forum on Africa to discuss "Africa's Promise to the World" Can Africa deliver?...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ... India,...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ... Ancient...Read more...
Comment on A $14 Trillion Extortion for a Global Warming Scam by Rudolph Boero
The latest megalomaniacal threat from the financial globalists wants to saddle the world economy with a cost of trillions of dollars that benefits favorite corporatists. The phony global warming cult has a core purpose. Their...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ... One of...Read more...
Kenya: Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Updated Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 11:07 GMT +3 By PPS Nairobi-Kenya: President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ... Known...Read more...
Kenya Uhuru back from World Economic Forum meet
Standard Digital - Tuesday 14th May, 2013 President Uhuru Kenyatta jetted back into the country Monday evening from a four-day official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. During the visit, President Kenyatta attended ......Read more...
UN Declares 2013 ‘International Year of Water Cooperation’
Water is the most important resource on the planet. This is a timeless truth. Yet, in this century, water faces increasingly acute and unique challenges. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2013, experts rate...Read more...
Rockefeller Foundation pledges $100 million to Africa’s digital scene
The Rockefeller Foundation has pledged $97 million in the digital scene in Africa as part of its ongoing initiative to create jobs for young Africans in the rapidly growing information and communications [...] The post...Read more...
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg Interviewed on USA and Europe–he mentions ‘common values,’ differences...
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (World Economic Forum) COGwriter Former German Defense Minister, Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was interviewed in the German press (the Kurier, Courier in English), and the following has basically...Read more...
Uganda Mbabazi Appeals for Support to Halt School Drop-Out Rate
Uganda could benefit from a UN pilot project where parents would receive cash incentives to keep children in school. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, now a UN special envoy on global education said this when he met...Read more...
BR — Lili Loofbourow: "'No to Profit'"
“No to Profit” Fighting Privatization in Chile Lili Loofbourow Chilean students have been protesting the country’s for-profit education system since 2006. / Luis Hidalgo Parra Everyone in Chile can recite the following facts:...Read more...
“Human Beings Have No Right to Water” & Other Words Of Wisdom From...
Peter Brabeck, Chairman of Nestlé Oldspeak: “Water, is of course the most important raw material we have today in the world, it’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there...Read more...
Foreign Banks Flock To Ghana
A number of foreign banks are racing into the country to catch up with their major clients, most of whom are currently doing business in Ghana. Among the latest to join the list is JP Morgan, one of the biggest banks in the...Read more...
Globalization, the Sanctions on Iran and Europe's Economic Crisis by Ginet Sosemito
By Ginet | Posted 18 minutes ago Since the Second World War increased Globalization was facilitated by collaboration between governments with the Allied Forces with the Marshall Plan and with National and European Governments...Read more...
'Africa has every reason to be optimistic,' says Strive Masiyiwa
A new report by the Africa Progress Panel calls for greater transparency in business dealings with the continent. The report presented by former UN chief Kofi Annan focused on Africa's extractive indu...Read more...
President Uhuru Thanks Zuma for Goodwill to Kenya
The Star]President Kenyatta today met and held bilateral talks with his South African counterpart President Jacob Zuma on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum for Africa that is taking place in Cape Town, South Africa.Read more...
Kenya We Wont Be Cowed On Salaries MPs Told
Nairobi - The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has stood firm in rejecting a pay demand by Members of Parliament despite threats to dismiss commissioners. The commission's chairperson Sarah Serem said the economy...Read more...
Long way to go before Brics bank gets going
by René Vollgraaff, 12 May 2013, 09:04 AFTER all the fanfare for the creation of a Brics development bank, actual implementation of this decision still seems quite far off. Speaking at this week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) on...Read more...
AfDB warns of huge mismatch between growth and jobs
Despite the annual economic growth of 5 per cent, Africa is unable to expand employment opportunities for youth African countries have been urged to boost long-term competitiveness so as to ensure sustainable improvement in...Read more...