Malaysia blocks pollution index as fires rage
As raging fires in the forests of Sumatra and Borneo fuelled fears that Southeast Asia would again be hit by haze, Malaysia's cabinet has refused to publish official pollution data. Ministers fear...
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Warming words but chill is still in the air
Does the strategic arms reduction treaty signed by Russia and the US liquidate 'the legacy of the cold war', asks At last week's summit between US president George W. Bush and Russian president...
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How to really wake the Indian tiger
India in the Era of Economic Reforms
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Oz reaps benefit of overseas interest
Australian universities earned almost A$800 million (Pounds 320 million) last year from fees paid by foreign students, who also spent another A$770 million on goods and services. More than 84,000...
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Royalty's rhyme and reason
The death last week of the Queen Mother was seen by many as marking the end of an era. But Declan Quigley argues that while the modern monarchy may have lost much of its influence, for many it...
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In the information wars, we are on the front line
"We believe we have the right to create something new." That is how one student activist described the philosophy of Otpor (Resistance), the Yugoslav student movement that played a key role in...
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Back door to immigration
Pacific island nations have become stepping stones in an illegal immigration racket that stretches from Fujian province in southern China to the United States territory of Guam. For $20,000, those...
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God still in history's top ten
Social history is more popular than political history, with economic history coming a distant third. Ecclesiastical and religious history are pursued by more historians than gender-based approaches...
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Not past his sell-by date
Recently retired academic Roy Porter tells Christopher Wood why we - and his bank manager - can look forward to more books. When writing about the historian Roy Porter, the convention is to refer to...
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Report uncovers HE bribes system
TBILISI Widespread corruption is one of the biggest obstacles to reform in Georgia, according to a World Bank report on university education in the former Soviet republic. A survey carried out at...
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Asian flu spawns antibodies
When it became obvious about a year ago that certain Asian currencies were not going to regain their previous strength, several countries took drastic steps to stop sending students to study in the...
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Cambridge ventures east
MALAYSIA is to set up a Commonwealth University near Kuala Lumpur in a joint venture with Cambridge University, writes David Jobbins. Dato Seri Mohd Najib Tun Adbul Razak, the Malaysian education...
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Degree unity sparks friction
The move towards a common European higher education system is happening faster than many people realise, delegates to Salamanca 2001, the Convention of European ÌÇÐÄVlog Institutions, heard...
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Emperors need their voices
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Occidental overstretch reversed by microchips
Twentieth Century