Updated: 2009-10-20 05:21:42
Representatives from the Counselling Centre for Psychotropic Substance Abusers (CCPSA) and various government departments will organise briefing sessions for the 23 secondary schools in Tai Po District to let teaching staff, students and parents further understand the details of the scheme. To enhance understanding of the scheme by secondary school students, parents and relevant parties [...]
Updated: 2009-10-20 04:26:40
Childhood abuse, obesity linked
Diagnosis to rock the world of mental health
5 Common Pop-Psych Myths
Buying Green Can Be License For Bad Behavior, Study Finds
Violent Upbringing May Lead To Domestic Violence
Psychiatric Symptoms May Predict Internet Addiction In Adolescents
Depression And Anxiety Disorders Of Adolescents Are Not The Same Thing
How We Know A Dog Is A Dog: Concept Acquisition [...]
Updated: 2009-10-20 04:26:23
Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It
Climate change: India, Argentina call on developed nations to do their bit
Rich nations need to ante-up in climate talks: U.N.
Climate Talks Failure Would Embarrass Obama, EU Says
Trade, climate top US-China agenda
Copenhagen Meet and replacing Kyoto Protocol
Oil exporting countries seek compensation in carbon-cutting [...]
Updated: 2009-10-19 07:35:01
Want to get research help from your fellow students? LexisNexis will launch its Student Representative programme this week with three student representatives who have been trained to help you with the use of LexisNexis. Your student representatives will hold a tutorial in Discussion Room C, Law Library, on:
October 22 (Thursday): 5:00 pm - 5:30 [...]
Updated: 2009-10-19 06:02:11
The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. and its website offer a great look into an oft-ignored medium. Historic textiles, functional textiles, and art textiles can all be found on this museum’s website, thanks to the collecting savvy of George Hewitt Myers, who founded the museum in 1925. Visitors will enjoy learning about the Textile of [...]
Updated: 2009-10-19 06:00:00
“Provenance is the history of ownership of an artwork or other artifact and provides important information about the attribution (determination of authorship) of the object.” The Smithsonian Institution is doing time-consuming detective work to determine if certain objects in their collections were wrongfully taken during World War II by Nazis. Clicking on “What is Provenance [...]
Updated: 2009-10-19 05:55:09
The Office of the Historian website was recently launched by the U.S. Department of State in order to provide better access to the official historical documentary records of U.S. foreign policy. The Office is responsible for writing and researching historical studies on various aspects of U.S. diplomacy for use by policymakers, and for the public [...]
Updated: 2009-10-19 05:51:58
In April 2001, the Globalization Research Center on Africa was established at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The Center was part of the Globalization Research Network, which included similar initiatives at the University of South Florida, George Washington University, and the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Today the Center continues to conduct “research on the [...]
Updated: 2009-10-19 05:31:12
Not familiar with British Romantic writer Leigh Hunt? After going through the University of Iowa Library’s collection of his letters online, visitors will know Hunt intimately. For those visitors who don’t have the stamina to pore over the more than 1600 letters that have been digitized thus far, an excellent history of him can be [...]
Updated: 2009-10-19 05:29:14
LACMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has raided its archives to create this website, which presents an experiment LACMA conducted over forty years ago. Beginning in 1967, the museum paired artists with high-tech companies to see what would happen. The results of the experiment were the exhibit “Art and Technology” in March 1970 [...]
Updated: 2009-10-16 18:18:00
: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Tuesday October 20, 2009 Canada goes from easing to worsening skill shortages abroad By Don Cayo 16 Oct 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : subSaharan Africa HIV AIDS skills shortage Lesotho foreign aid education doctor shortage health care Africa Of all the pressing needs clamoring for attention in the world's poorest countries , the most urgent is usually skilled people . Health care , education , administration and much more progress in every area is blunted by having too few people who know how to do the job . well Time was when Canada went a long way to help address that problem . We used to provide free access to advanced degrees for promising scholars from poor places students like Pakalitha Mosisili of Lesotho , who earned his masters of education degree at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver in the . 1980s Mosisili has proven the value of education many times over . He returned to Lesotho , first to teach and eventually to enter politics and become Prime Minister . In this role he has become an effective and tireless champion in the all-consuming fight against HIV AIDS , which is debilitating and
Updated: 2009-10-12 06:08:35
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Updated: 2009-10-08 22:46:41
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Updated: 2009-10-07 19:36:14
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Updated: 2009-10-06 15:21:34
The world of business journalism is changing. It used to be that reporters interviewed people in companies and wrote stories based on what they found out. That was it. These days, the roles are sometimes reversed. Here's an interview of me conducted and published by Jay Fry, vice-president of business unit strategy at software maker CA, on his Data Center Dialog blog. It's mostly about cloud computing, but some other stuff is mixed in.
Updated: 2009-10-03 15:57:00
: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Tuesday October 20, 2009 Founder of Bangaldeshi NGO thinks on a grand scale By Don Cayo 3 Oct 2009 COMMENTS(0 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : Bangladesh developing Asia Uganda Haiti East Africa Africa Afghanistan Fazle Abed BRAC Most of us think it's laudable and it is when a non-profit group builds and operates a successful school or clinic , or finds ways to help a few hundred or a few thousand poor people make a better . living But Fazle Abed and BRAC , the Bangladesh-based international NGO he built over three decades from the ruins of a massive cyclone , count their successes in the millions . Their initial work was only in Bangladesh , but in recent years they have begun developing plans and programs to help millions and millions more in places as diverse as Afghanistan , Haiti and . Uganda To read my profile of Abed and his organization , published in the Vancouver Sun click . here Link to this blog E-mail Print Share Your Comments No Comments Add Your Comments Keep it clean , and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment.You must have a javascript enabled browser to submit a comment . Your Name
Updated: 2009-10-02 14:34:18
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Updated: 2009-10-02 14:15:41
Moira Herbst and I just published our investigative piece on abuses of work visas and workers in BW. What do you think should be done to address these problems?
Updated: 2009-10-01 03:35:00
: MAIN CONTACT EDITOR SUBSCRIBE RSS Today is Tuesday October 20, 2009 Conglolese healers dare to go where others won't By Don Cayo 1 Oct 2009 COMMENTS(1 Globalization : for better or worse Filed under : Congo aid war health care Africa DR Congo An all-Congolese holistic health group , HEAL Africa , is attracting worldwide attention with its stalwart determination to keep going to lawless areas of the eastern Congo where most others fear to . tread The organization's hospital in Goma , the regional UN headquarters and a relatively safe haven in the war-torn country , has attracted plenty of TV crews during high-profile visits from the likes of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton . But the core of their operation is the regular forays of their Congolese doctors and support staff into the villages and rural areas where government and rebel forces wrestle for control and where countless civilians have been wounded , raped and murdered . An estimated five million people the highest toll of any conflict since the Second World War have died over the last decade and a half due to the slaughter and the disease and deprivation left in its . wake
Updated: 2009-09-24 15:37:52
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Updated: 2009-09-23 17:26:01
I'm developing a story about Cognizant's work-management system, Cognizant 2.0. Please post comments about what it's like to use it, positive or negative. If you're willing to talk to me for the story, please e-mail me separately at steve_hamm@businessweek.com.
Updated: 2009-09-22 17:54:00
nbsp; A series of tax measures enacted in Canada over the last decade have benefited mainly big domestic charities — hospitals and universities and that sort of thing — as they encourage the gift of publicly traded shares.
nbsp; But overseas development work has also benefited. Just two not-so-small examples — Vancouver mining magnates Frank Giustra and Lukas Lundin have each given $100 million to the Clinton Foundation for work in poor parts of the world.
nbsp; Now there's a thoughtful proposal being put forward for the Canadian government to extend the favourable tax treatment to two more large pools of Canadians' wealth — real estate and privately held companies. For my analysis of this proposal and its potential, click here
