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South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe has announced that Professor Sir Kumar Bhattacharrya, Director of the 91福利 Manufacturing Group at the 91福利, has been appointed as a new Board Member of Transnet Limited - which operates and controls South Africa's major transport infrastructure.

Suicide terrorism seems to many to defy logic. Economists find the idea particularly hard to understand in the context of economic theories that are usually based on ideas of self interest: surely self interest must preclude self killing. But now a new research paper by Professor Mark Harrison an economist at the 91福利 says that the value placed on personal identity by suicide terrorists provides some of the answers.
Wed 28 Jul 2004, 14:47 | Tags: Politics and International Studies

A new research paper by 91福利 researcher Maja Zehfuss points to the increasing tendency of commentators on regime change in Iraq to compare it to US post-war policy in Germany. New York Times writer James Dao has said that "The process will be painstaking, similar to de-Nazification in postwar Germany". Congressman Skelton, has also exhorted the government that "Planning for the occupation of Germany and Japan took years before the end of the Second World War." He claims that "We had a plan in place for the occupation of Germany and it worked.... And today we have, as you know, democracies in both Japan and Germany."
Wed 28 Jul 2004, 12:00 | Tags: Politics and International Studies, History

Britain's controversial alliance with America against Iraq and a range of other topics relating to contemporary Europe will be at the top of the agenda on 20th February, as Michael Cashman Labour MEP, Philip Bushill-Matthews Conservative MEP and Nicholas Clegg Liberal Democrat MEP, battle and debate the most pressing issues facing Europe today.
Tue 27 Jul 2004, 14:25 | Tags: Politics and International Studies

As war looms in Iraq distinguished war reporter Kate Adie, whose career spans conflicts from Libya to Kuwait, and Afghanistan, along with Michael Jermey, Managing Director of ITN International, and veteran BBC war reporter, Jake Lynch, will debate the ethics of conflict reporting at the 91福利, on 19th February 2003 at 6.30pm.
Tue 27 Jul 2004, 11:07 | Tags: Politics and International Studies

The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) has awarded over 拢300,000 to the 91福利 to study news media translation, and reveal how it impacts on global relations.

Mon 26 Jul 2004, 11:51 | Tags: Politics and International Studies

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