Month: June 2011

The Nigerian government has imposed a curfew on the national capital city, Abuja, following recent attacks by Islamist militants. Nightclubs, beer parlours, and cinemas must close by 10pm local time (2100 GMT) and public parks […]

The conduct and utterances of some political party activists are annoying. Some of those activists are patently undisciplined and have become notorious for either perpetrating violence or acting recklessly to give our politics a bad […]

China’s economic reforms of the last three decades have transformed the pattern and level of material consumption for tens of millions of Chinese families. However, such gains have not been distributed equally throughout the population, […]

The results of Turkey’s 12 June parliamentary elections – despite the challenge from Kemalist and pro-Islamic elements – give the Justice and Development Party (AKP) yet another chance to pursue its foreign policy objectives and […]

Member governments of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and other stakeholders have created a new framework to promote a more transparent, open Internet at a two-day meeting in Paris. The new principles, […]

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was Tuesday received with military honours by Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Federal chancellery in Berlin. On the third and final leg of his European tour, the Chinese leader was […]

Förderer überreichen 16 Stipendien an Studierende der Charité Die Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin hat jetzt die ersten 16 Deutschlandstipendien an ausgewählte Studierende der Human- und Zahnmedizin, Medizinischen Neurowissenschaften und Molekularen Medizin vergeben. In feierlicher Atmosphäre […]

Coupled with this tendency toward “selective amnesia” by the ICC, we have obvious instances of disquiet in the international circles too. The powerful voices that control the UN have the penchant for using the world […]