Brazil's Rousseff yet to emerge from Lula's shadow
A photo opportunity during Carnival is a must for Brazilian politicians and Dilma Rousseff, who is running for president, did well this year by partying with pop star Madonna and dancing samba with a street sweeperIt was one of the few public events in which the often stern-looking Rousseff showed a more human face and appeared without her mentor and political benefactor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Dutch looking away from Europe
The collapse of the Dutch government over troop deployments in Afghanistan will distance the country from its EU neighbours, reduce its involvement on the world stage and could prompt a shift to the right at homeDespite a long internationalist tradition rooted in centuries of sea trade, the European country of 16 million has turned inwards in recent years as the economy has stagnated and political and social ... Read More
German FDP chief under fire as support slumps
15/02/2010 |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Free Democrat (FDP) partners have seen their popularity slump and relations within the coalition have soured over issues from taxes to welfare ben...
Thousands march for free media, polls in Ivory Coast
26/01/2010 |
Thousands of Ivorian opposition supporters marched peacefully through Abidjan this week to protest against what they said was President Laurent Gbagbo's stranglehold on the state m...
Dark days at the centre of Europe
20/01/2010 |
Surrounded by forest, a white granite pillar topped by a ring of golden stars near the village of Purnuskes marks "the geographical centre of Europe". Things are looking bleak...
Qaeda survives pressure, salvages some credibility
06/01/2010 | William Maclean
Regional hubs give al Qaeda global reach, attacks show al Qaeda menace is evolving while there is a danger of the West overreacting, some experts say...
Path between the seas
21/12/2009 | Sean Mattson
One of the world's greatest engineering marvels is being overhauled as work crews blast through hills to widen and deepen the Panama Canal to make room for a new generation of mega...
The downside of the Eurozone
21/12/2009 |
Opponents of quick euro adoption have long argued that losing the flexibility of an independent currency could be painful for economies whose cyclical endurance is limited by lower...
Thai arms experts inspect seized N Korean cargo
15/12/2009 | Prapan Chankae
Thai arms experts on Tuesday began inspecting more than 35 tonnes of cargo and heavy weapons seized from an impounded plane traveling from North Korea, as questions persisted over ...
Chinese farmers struggle with climate change
15/12/2009 | Chris Buckley
In northwest China, farmers count the costs of a changing climate in lost crops, dry wells and lives weighed down by poverty...
The new rust belt
21/08/2009 | Krisztina Than
Heavy industries across eastern Europe, once the beacons of communist “planned economies”, survived the collapse of communism 20 years ago but may not live to see the end of the cu...
Riders on the storm
21/08/2009 | Pascal Fletcher
The Caribbean's small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm that is battering rich and poor nations ali...
Tipping point
21/08/2009 | Niko Mchedlishvili and Matt Robinson
More than 800,000 barrels of high-quality Caspian crude oil flow daily to the Mediterranean beneath a Georgian village, 42km from breakaway South Ossetia...
Terminal failure
21/08/2009 | Catherine Hornby
From queuing barges and traffic jams to falling cargo volumes and quieter terminals, a struggle with overloadingat Europe's biggest port has turned into a fight for business...
Golden ticket?
21/08/2009 | Emma Graham-Harrison
In China, a university degree has long been seen as a ticket away from the grim production lines and workplace abuse of its boomtown factories, but some graduates now face a fate t...
After Tiananmen
30/06/2009 | TNE
Twenty years after the events of Tiananmen square brought the question of Chinese civil rights to the fore, we analyse subsequent developments in China...
Solidarity workers defiant as bailouts mount
2009-06-12 | TNE
Two decades after they helped overthrow communism in eastern Europe, shipyard workers in Poland's Solidarity are ready to fight for the right to share the subsidies that have baile...
Watching the despots
| Chris Holt
New satellite imaging technology is making it easier for the international community to keep an eye on the activities of some nations. From new developments, to the work of some of...
A social time bomb
01/06/2009 | Sonya Dowsett
Tensions mounting between native job-seekers and immigrants competing for a declining pool of work in Spain will intensify in 2009 as generous benefits for those laid off reach the...
Reverse brain drain
01/06/2009 | Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Anurag Kotoky
The economic crisis that has sent the US economy into its worst recession in decades, has tarnished the sheen of the 'American Dream' for many Indians who are opting for university...
The Cyprus problem
01/06/2009 | Justin Keay
In Cyprus the fact that once again reconciliation talks seem to be going nowhere should surprise no-one familiar with the thorny complexities of the island's problem, or the long, ...
Qualitative growth
21/05/2009 | Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson
A conceptual framework for finding solutions to our current crisis that are economically sound, ecologically sustainable, and socially just...
Nuclear deterrence
28/05/2009 | Graham Allison
An attack on one of the great cities of the world is almost inevitable. But with better detection technologies, a new international alliance could still prevent catastrophe...
David Carson on design, discovery and humour
28/01/2009 | TED
David Carson explores the design elements at work within our world, as well as the medium of print, how it is changing, and his own perceptions...
Iwokrama and climate change
18/11/2008 | Edward Glover, Hylton Murray, Michael Woods
In Guyana, South America, beneath the canopy of an extraordinary rainforest, a unique experiment is taking place involving our global eco-system...
Still ahead of the curve
22/06/2009 | TNE
Oscar Niemeyer has created some of the most iconic buildings of the twentieth century...
The dollar versus the euro
05/03/2008 | Michael McCaw
Recent occurrences suggest that the greenback might just have a competitor on its hands, as the euro gains in stature...
Conspiracy theories through the ages
04/03/2008 | Michael McCaw
Since Plato's Republic, man has wrestled in the political arena, concealing various daggers behind many cloaks. The New Economy investigates...
Banking in China
07/09/2007 | TNE
China's move to open its banking sector to the West creates lucrative opportunities for foreign institutions, but they will have to tread carefully...
Drugs of choice
11/06/2007 | Ben Olsen
Small Thai firms are taking on the giants over the production of generic versions of potential lifesaving drugs. And this time they have government backing...
Finding FDI hotspots
11/06/2007 | TNE
Direct investment is approaching record levels, but which countries are attracting the most money?...
Goodbye America, Hello China? Think again
12/03/2010 Bernd Debusmann
For the growing number of Americans who see China heading for inevitable global dominance, nudging a...
Controversy mounts in EU over fall-out from biofuel
12/02/2010
Fresh controversy is mounting within the EU over biofuels and their unintended impact on tropical fo...
55 nations set 2020 carbon goals since Copenhagen
02/02/2010
Fifty-five nations accounting for almost 80 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions have set natio...
Internet companies voice alarm over Italian law
26/01/2010
Internet companies and civil liberty groups have voiced alarm over a proposed Italian law which woul...
