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The Silk Road less travelled
Aurel Stein on the Silk Road
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Could your pint cost the Earth?
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum
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MoU strengthens Sino-French cooperation in middleware and distributed systems
Brussels, 20 May 2005 China and France have taken a step towards greatly enhanced cooperation in the field of middleware technologies and distributed systems with the signing on 15 May of a...
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Bristol centre poised to unlock gateway to China
Bristol University is bucking a national trend by setting up a new teaching and research centre for East Asian studies. The university believes that the interdisciplinary centre will play a major...
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Overseas drive scaled down
The Australian universities' main foreign student recruitment agency is to close its UK offices amid a slump in overseas applications to study in Australia and a sharp reduction in international...
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Preparation of the Competitiveness Council of Ministers, Brussels, 29/30 May 2006 (full report)
Brussels, 24 May 2006 The EU Competitiveness Council will meet in Brussels on Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 March at 9.30 under the chairmanship of Austrian Federal Minister for Economics and Labour Mr...
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Rise in tuberculosis cases requires action
Brussels, 31 Mar 2006 Drastic rises in the numbers of TB cases in Eastern Europe have caused alarm around the EU. Tuberculosis (TB) infects up to one-third of the world's population, and kills more...
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A declaration of interdependence
Traditionally, universities focused on teaching and research. Now they are being urged to become better neighbours and citizens by engaging with the local community. Brenda Gourley explains...
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A capital case for indulging in foreign affairs
The University of London has played host to Commonwealth scholars who have gone on to illustrious careers in their home countries, writes Graeme Davies The University of London and the Association of...
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The men fuelled by their desire to reorient the East
Empire to Orient - The Orientalist
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International research cooperation on juvenile diabetes
Brussels, 06 Dec 2005 On 2 December, the European Parliament hosted a meeting gathering European stakeholders on type 1 diabetes and representatives of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF...
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US dominates Shanghai poll
Cambridge has moved up to second place in a new ranking of the world's top universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. But the third edition of the ranking remains dominated by US universities,...
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Addressing the approaching revolution in particle physics
Brussels, 10 Aug 2005 An approaching revolution in the understanding of the most basic physical laws governing the Universe will bring some 600 physicists and engineers to an intensive two-week...
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See the sea and all its currents
Rethinking the Mediterranean