Exact bequest of a star-struck empire
Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat
It is true that Cambodians see English, not French, as the key to unlock the door to jobs (THES, May 12), and when one looks at where the investors are coming from (the English-using countries of...
IT HAS often been said that Britain and India share a special, love-hate relationship. Recent events have shown that it is still very much alive and kicking, and have reminded both countries of how...
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As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
Chechnya
Environment and History
A SHARP drop in the number of mature students applying for higher education cast a shadow this week over the government's claims that its policies will not jeopardise lifelong learning. Figures from...
Some 250 Cambodian students demonstrated and burned tyres last week in protest at the use of French as the teaching medium at Phnom Penh's Institute of Technology. Student leaders said the protest...
Plague, Pox and Pestilence - Epidemics and History
The future of Oxford University's business venture with Liberty was in the balance this week following the upmarket retailers' announcement that all its branches outside London are to close to stem...
NEW YORK financial markets have been open for just ten minutes, but already heads are bent over monitors where colour-coded financial information from Reuters and Dow Jones is continuously updated at...
Framework for the World
The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy
Following up on local talk, Alan G. Robinson discovered a lost city that may transform our view of a great ancient civilisation. Andrew Robinson reports The dream of any archaeologist must be to...