26th September 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
It’s not often that one identifies similarities between Brazil and Scotland (although beautiful beaches and a love of delicious deep fried food are 2 things that spring to mind – Scots would love Coxinha and Pão de Queijo, although I’m not sure if Brazilians would take to deep fried Mars Bars or sunbathing at Luskentyre), […]
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22nd September 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
For the last nine months Europe has been gripped by the crisis in Ukraine. For years Europe and Russia have enjoyed increasing economic and political co-operation, but in March 2014 Russia illegally annexed Crimea, breaching the sovereignty of Ukraine and escalating tensions in the region. This represents a loss of 4,5% of territory – the equivalent […]
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16th September 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
The 69th session of the UN General Assembly starts today in New York. The commonly referred to Ministerial Week – when the high level meetings occur – will take place next week. For most people the UN General Assembly (UNGA) will conjure up newspaper images of that huge hall familiar from television, with rows of […]
9th September 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
September is turning into a busy month in the international climate change calendar this year. On 23 September, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will gather world leaders in New York at a climate summit to showcase action on climate change worldwide, and demonstrate international commitment to a global climate deal in 2015. Next week, the […]
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4th September 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
This week Wales hosts the NATO Summit, the largest gathering of international leaders ever to take place in Britain. I grew up in the east of England under the deep shadow of the Cold War. Throughout my teenage years the risk of armed conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO seemed very close and very […]
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13th August 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
“They seek them here, they seek them there Those Brits they seek them everywhere, Be they in Manaus, Recife or Sao Paulo Those Chevening scholars are the key to tomorrow” *Inspired by the Scarlet Pimpernel – click here to discover this gem of British Culture Funding for Chevening in Brazil will triple from 2015. As […]
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12th August 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
“Today BRICs is a force to reckon with and is perhaps the future” – Tarun Singhal, Chevening Alumni and Director of Enterprise, Business and Strategic Alliances at Steri, India. With events in Gaza and the shooting down of flight MH17, the BRICS Summit might seem a long time ago now. However, our posts from Chevening […]
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24th July 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
As the third and last part of our Chevening BRICS conversation, I am delighted to share a piece by Mr Tarun Singhal, currently Director Enterprise, Business and Strategic Alliance and Partnerships at Steria and who was in the Chevening Advanced Management Programme for Young Indian IT Professionals in 2000-2001 at the Manchester Business School. The […]
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22nd July 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
After our first guest post by Floriano Filho (2001, MA Communications, Westminster), I am pleased to share comments from our Chevening China network. Mr Wang Xin studied Business at Edinburgh University in 1997/98, Mr Peng Xiang was at Westminster in 2006/7 where he did Law, Mr Chen Hanlin is a 1999-00 Cambridge alumni in Education. […]
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21st July 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
For those of us who are involved with Human Rights – whether it is our job, or just a cause we support – there is always a tricky question to answer: how far should we go to defend these principles without imposing our values into different cultures and traditions? How much should we respect these […]