The changing face of emergence Asia Times | Jul 14, 2010 THE BEAR'S LAIR | The changing face of emergence | By Martin Hutchinson | There's a new acronym for favored emerging markets - CIVETS. Coined again by Goldman Sachs' chief economist Jim O'Neill (who in 2001 invented the BRIC acronym for Brazil, Russia, India a...
Camel crisis Middle East Online | The camel has long had a special place in the imagination of the West, from the Greek historian Herodotus telling a story about Indians using fast-running camels to defeat dog-sized, man-eating ants that guarded gold, through the Three Magi journeying to Christ’s birth, Lawrence of Arabia and the ...
FPI Overnight Brief Scoop Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 11:51 am | Press Release: Foreign Policy Initiative | FPI Overnight Brief | July 26, 2010 | Special Announcements | FPI seeks college juniors or seniors, graduate students, or recent graduates to work as unpaid interns at its o...
Letters: the burka The Independent | Backing for the burka | I have always supported the right of women to choose how they dress and any attempt to try to stifle the right of Muslim women as shown by Philip Hollobone MP will be strongly challenged (report and leading article, 17 July)...
The changing face of emergence Asia Times | Jul 14, 2010 THE BEAR'S LAIR | The changing face of emergence | By Martin Hutchinson | There's a new acronym for favored emerging markets - CIVETS. Coined again by Goldman Sachs' chief economist Jim O'Neill (who in 2001 inv...
Camel crisis Middle East Online | The camel has long had a special place in the imagination of the West, from the Greek historian Herodotus telling a story about Indians using fast-running camels to defeat dog-sized, man-eating ants that guarded gold, through the Three Magi journey...
What's in a piece of soil? solving desertification and climate changes The Examiner | Synergy between conventions that mandated actions to be taken to fight climate change and desertification has been a rallying cry, and recently, well accepted by parties to both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC...
Nigeria-China trade hits $6 billion Business Day Online Despite criticisms of Chinese foray into the African market, the trade relations between China and Nigeria is becoming significant | The bilateral trade between Nigeria and China has grown steadily as the volume of trade between the two countries in ...
G8 Summit in Canada to Recycle Old Pledges to Africa Peace FM Online The group of eight highly industrialised or rich countries known as G8 (or "Greedy 8") will be attending the 36th G8 summit in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada from June 25-26, 2010. | The meeting is scheduled to take place at the Deerhurst Resort, a very...
ENI announces energy venture with Egypt Middle East Online | MILAN - Italian energy group ENI said on Wednesday it had signed an agreement with Egypt on the production and transportation of oil and gas which would raise Egypt's profile as a supplier to the Middle East and Mediterranean region. | ENI and the two Egyptian state-owned oil companies EGPC and EGAS will establish a joint venture and work togethe...
BP Sells $7 Billion in Assets to Apache The New York Times | The troubled oil giant BP announced Tuesday that it had agreed to sell $7 billion of onshore oil and gas assets in Texas, New Mexico, western Canada and Egypt to the Apache Corporation. Add to Portfolio | BP Plc Apache Corporation | Go to your Portfolio » | The move goes a long way toward raising the $20 billion that BP pledged to put in esc...
