Universities and their innovations thrive with collaboration. “The leaders of the only private university in North Korea asked Texas A&M University, known for its agricultural economics and public health programs, for help on Monday in teaching subjects such as how to grow food in a land of...
The leaders of the only private university in North Korea asked Texas A&M University, known for its agricultural economics and public health programs, for help on Monday in teaching subjects such as how to grow food in a land of chronic...
For decades, the Scottish Borders region has sustained an active cashmere industry, producing lusciously soft scarves and sweaters for high-end consumers. Now, however, Chinese textile manufacturers are displacing Scottish producers from large swaths of the market. Chinese producers "are...
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NATO’s secretary-general has requested additional troops for Afghanistan. Making a public plea, he said that some nations carrying more burden than others. Many members are reluctant to send troops to the country’s southern region, where drug trade and local warlord power engage the troops in...
Nato chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer's public plea yesterday for up to 2,500 additional soldiers to fight alongside British, Canadian and Dutch forces in southern Afghanistan has highlighted deep internal strains in the...
Twenty years ago, when Harvard Business School's Theodore Levitt asserted that global brands would rule the world, many CEOs jumped on the global marketing bandwagon. Homogenized products from soft drinks to software came onto the global market, and it seemed as if world tastes would converge...
Marketing guru Theodore Levitt, a professor at Harvard Business School, was never a man given to understatement. But even by his standards, the prophecy he made on May 1 1983 was bold.
"The globalisation of...
China has transformed since the 1989 crackdown on thousands of protesters in Tiananmen Square who demanded economic, political and social reforms. China’s leaders, initially triumphant about quelling the protests, soon retreated into a disciplined silence, banning public accounts or grieving. “As...
Search for identity: The Chinese government banished the iconic image of the lone man blocking army tanks near Tiananmen Square to erase memory of resistance, top; student leader in Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, prefers building a new identity for Hong...
Iraq is a Shia-majority nation and its neighbor Iran is more than 90 percent Shia. Dozens of Shia militias known as popular mobilization units are securing Iraq by controlling territory taken from the Islamic State. The units have established a strategic corridor linking Tehran and Syria. This...
The meeting this week in Geneva may be the last chance to complete the Doha Development Round of talks launched by the World Trade Organization in 2001. While many observers anticipate that the round could be rescued, the stalemate highlights the structural weaknesses of a trade organization...
Bad apples: French farmers protest against imported apples. WTO finds it hard to wean developed country farmers from subsidies and protection
DURHAM, NH: As the G-8 Summit left St. Petersburg, the US sent its...
On the one hand, the Palestinian governing coalition, led by the heretofore hard-line militant group Hamas, has signed a document that implicitly recognizes the existence of the Israeli state, a positive step in relations between the two entities. On the other hand, the Israeli military is massing...
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