Just before heading to Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit, President Obama becomes the first president t...
Just before heading to Pittsburgh for the G-20 Summit, President Obama becomes the first president to chair a session of the U.N. Security council to discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons. Bill Plante reports.
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National Security council Chief of Staff Denis McDonough spoke to Harry Smith on Pr...
National Security council Chief of Staff Denis McDonough spoke to Harry Smith on Pres. Obama's urgent meeting with the National Security council.
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Video testimonial from Somerset County council in the U.K on their use of the Googl...
Video testimonial from Somerset County council in the U.K on their use of the Google Search Appliance and how it helps their citizens
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Outgoing General Assembly president, Miguel d'Escoto, says the most powerful states are to blame for...
Outgoing General Assembly president, Miguel d'Escoto, says the most powerful states are to blame for the UN's failure to address issues of war and poverty. For more visit www.therealnews.com
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President Obama remains concentrated on diplomatic relations, serving as the first U.S. president to...
President Obama remains concentrated on diplomatic relations, serving as the first U.S. president to preside over a U.N. Security council summit and attending the G20 conference. Chip Reid reports.
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North Korea says they will launch a satellite rocket as early as tomorrow. (The Trade)
North Korea says they will launch a satellite rocket as early as tomorrow. (The Trade)
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It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the rest of the world caught a cold. But, at least fo...
It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the rest of the world caught a cold. But, at least for the countries of the Gulf Cooperation council, that no longer seems to be the case. So what's changed and what do the increasing links to Asia's booming economies mean for the region?
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The mere presence of phthalates isn't the most pressing issue, according to Cal Dooley, president of...
The mere presence of phthalates isn't the most pressing issue, according to Cal Dooley, president of the industry lobby group The American Chemistry council. Instead, Dooley says more studies need to be done to determine what quantity of phthalate is actually harmful.
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IE Business School hosted the first Executive MBA council European regional meeting...
IE Business School hosted the first Executive MBA council European regional meeting, in March 2009.
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Outgoing General Assembly prez, Father Miguel d'Escoto, tells niece "I feel like I'm in a cesspool" ...
Outgoing General Assembly prez, Father Miguel d'Escoto, tells niece "I feel like I'm in a cesspool" after UN inaction on Gaza. For more visit www.therealnews.com
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Calm A Sutra Of Tea $15,000 contest winner
Calm A Sutra Of Tea $15,000 contest winner
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Stephen Zunes: Along with the right to self-determin...
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Stephen Zunes: Along with the right to self-determination comes the principle of territorial integrity
Tuesday February 26th, 2008
Wednesday February 27th, 2008
Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco and a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org). From 1996 to 1999, he served as chair of the Board of Peaceworkers, a US-based group supporting the non-violent struggle of the Kosovar Albanians and other non-violent movements and peacemakers in areas of conflict.
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As teens & novice drivers learn the complex task of driving a motor vehicle, safety should always co...
As teens & novice drivers learn the complex task of driving a motor vehicle, safety should always come first. The wireless industry & National Safety council urge teens to adopt an "On the Road, Off the Phone" philosophy to avoid the dangers of distracted driving. (Business Wire)
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UK and France table new sanctions despite IAEA repor...
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UK and France table new sanctions despite IAEA report saying good progress with Iran
Sunday February 24th, 2008
After the report was circulated, Dr. ElBaradei made the following comments:
"Our task in Iran is to make sure that the Iranian nuclear programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes. We are at it for the last five years. In the last four months, in particular, we have made quite good progress in clarifying the outstanding issues that had to do with Iran´s past nuclear activities, with the exception of one issue, and that is the alleged weaponization studies that supposedly Iran has conducted in the past. We have managed to clarify all the remaining outstanding issues, including the most important issue, which is the scope and nature of Iran´s enrichment programme. We have made good progress, with still one issue on our agenda and I call on Iran to act as actively as possible, as fast as possible, for me to be able (to ensure) that all issues, that have to do with Iran´s past nuclear activities, have been clarified.
"In addition to our work, to clarify Iran´s past nuclear activities, we have to make sure, naturally, that Iran´s current activities are also exclusively for peace purposes and for that we have been asking Iran to conclude the so called Additional Protocol, which gives us the additional authority to visit places, additional authority to have additional documents, to be able to provide assurance, not only that Iran´s declared activities are for peaceful purposes but that there are no undeclared nuclear activities. On that score, Iran in the last few months has provided us with visits to many places, that enable us to have a clearer picture of Iran´s current programme. However, that is not, in my view, sufficient. We need Iran to implement the Additional Protocol. We need to have that authority as a matter of law. That, I think, is a key for us to start being able to build progress in providing assurance that Iran´s past and current programmes are exclusively for peaceful purposes. So we have the Protocol issue and we have the weaponization, alleged weaponization studies. I should however add that in connection with the weaponization studies, we have not seen any indication that these studies were linked to nuclear material. So that gives us some satisfaction but the issue is still critical for us to be able to come to a determination as to the nature of Iran´s nuclear programme.
"As a result of Iran running an undeclared nuclear programme for almost two decades, there has been confidence deficit on the part of the international community about the intentions, future intentions of Iran´s nuclear programme. Therefore the Security council asked Iran to suspend its enrichment-related activities. I hope that Iran will continue to work closely with the Security council, to create the conditions for Iran and the international community to engage in comprehensive negotiation that would lead to a durable solution. A durable solution requires confidence about Iran´s nuclear programme, it requires a regional security arrangement, it requires normal trade relationship between Iran and the international community. As the Security council stated, the ultimate aim should be normalization of relationships between Iran and the international community. Definitely the Agency will continue to do as much as we can to make sure that we also contribute to the confidence-building process with regard to the past and present nuclear activities in Iran, but naturally, we can not provide assurance about future intentions. That is inherently a diplomatic process that needs the engagement of all the parties."
From the IAEA website http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2008/iranreport0208.htm
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In this business tv show, emerging market specialists Stephen Philips, Chief Executive, China-Britai...
In this business tv show, emerging market specialists Stephen Philips, Chief Executive, China-Britain Business council, Ian Coleman, Partner, Head of emerging markets, PricewaterhouseCoopers UK, Frederique Schillern, COO Asia Pacific, Equity Trust, and Chris Runckel, President, Runckel and Associates, discuss the IP challenges that every company must consider before doing business in an emerging economy.
Frederique Schillern: You could say that intellectual property in China is a big concern; it should be for anybody who is really transferring intellectual property in China.
Chris Runckel: China in all honesty is a disaster in respect of protection of intellectual property. Even today intellectual property is not being protected in a worldwide sense. You know other places have their problems as well; India has their problem with intellectual property as well but of all the countries in Asia, China is the worst.
Ian Coleman: What we are increasingly seeing people do is look to work through licensing arrangements that are more collaborative where there is an attempt to actually almost bring the enemy into the camp if that’s a analogy that one may use. I’m not sure that it’s a great analogy actually but none the less that concept of actually getting into a circumstance where there is a mutual understanding of the profit motive and working that through.
Chris Runckel: There are ways in which you can design your manufacturing to limit your exposure of that intellectual property and many companies have done a very good job of that. What they will do is they will manufacture certain components in China to lower cost and actually put together sub assemblies in China but they do the final manufacturing or final putting everything together in another location. Other time there are ways in which you can actually basically protect your intellectual property by only releasing certain portions of it to exposure in China and this is how may major corporations are actually doing their manufacturing so that ...
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The SHRM North Central Regional council will see YOU in San Diego!
The SHRM North Central Regional council will see YOU in San Diego!
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China and India are two of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world, but what are the ...
China and India are two of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world, but what are the differences and how would you choose which is right for you? We talked with emerging markets specialists Stephen Philips, Chief Executive of the China-Britain Business council, Ian Coleman, Partner and Head of Emerging Markets at PricewaterhouseCoopers UK, and Chris Runckel President of Runckel and Associates.
Chris Runckel: There really is no one China, you have china thats along the Eastern sea board which now is a very, actually a more a more advanced developing area for doing business. It has very good infrastructure, road systems, very good communications system in the major cities. You have modern buildings, a lot of the accoutrements that any business would be looking for.
Then you have the western area of the country which tends to be much poorer, much less developed, infrastructure is starting to go in there. The government is making a push to install infrastructure through the western region and its coming up but really the cost of internal shipping inside China and some of the other costs that are added in a project still makes western China not as attractive are as it might be.
Stephen Philips: For most businesses theyre going to be focussing on the more urban areas, but those urban areas arent just Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, there are many cities across China that have more than a million people which is unlike the UK clearly. CBBC itself has got offices in 11 cities across China, most of those cities most British people will not even have heard of. Chongqing in the west of China for instance, its an urban area, has got 30 million people, half the size of the UK and yes its probably somewhere that the vast majority of people have never heard of.
Chris Runckel: For the west you have India which is a very, very good location for lower cost projects which have more labour content in them. Fairly good protection of intellectual property, some significant ...
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In this business tv show, join international business experts Ian Coleman, Partner, Head of emerging...
In this business tv show, join international business experts Ian Coleman, Partner, Head of emerging markets, PricewaterhouseCoopers UK, Tony Dickel, CEO, MRI China, and Chris Runckel, President, Runckel and Associates, as they talk about upcoming issues they see for businesses operating in emerging economies.
Ian Coleman: I think that what we have seen is a growing change to one of acceptance that it isn’t novel, its business as usual. A growing change towards the integration of emerging market managers into the managerial structures of multi international companies because the importance of doing business in those countries.
Tony Dickel: You’ve got the 1billion US dollars a week of foreign investment, you’ve got the 3000 companies a month, you’ve got the 10% economic growth, all an environment of an emerging population of only children, there isn’t a hope in hell that demographically China can create enough middle management and senior management over the next 20 years and so to support what’s going to be going on in China in the context of economic and corporate growth and the need for mid-senior level talent, not a chance, especially as many of the better Chinese people are also being exported overseas. So apart from that everything’s great. It’s going to be easy.
Chris Runckel: One of the things we feel very passionate about really is the problem that we see in all of these developing countries with the failure to invest into the education system. All of these countries what you see is that investment in education is insufficient for the requirements that are being set by the growing economy and so you start developing problems where you cant get the quality of engineers, of accountants and of a wide range of people that you require for these new type of economies..
Ian Coleman: When we think of joint venturing and so on it’s often in the context of a developed market company joint venturing to enter an emerging market to serve them and provide goods and services there but ...
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In this business tv show, international business experts Stephen Philips, Chief Executive, China-Bri...
In this business tv show, international business experts Stephen Philips, Chief Executive, China-Britain Business council, Ian Coleman, Partner, Head of emerging markets, PricewaterhouseCoopers UK, and Chris Runckel, President, Runckel and Associates, talk about looking beyond the balance between risk and reward, because there's a great deal more to choosing the best destination.
Ian Coleman: People often ask me what is the next hot destination and the next hot emerging market and I don’t think there’s a simple answer to that. Why? Largely because of something I said earlier about the need to balance risk and reward. It’s relatively easy to look at that on one dimension and say which of those high risk countries, where’s the highest physical risk, a lot of people look at that. It’s equally as easy to look at population demographics, look at expected inflation rates, to look at the economic growth potential of different companies but its bringing those two things together that I think is very important.
Stephen Phillips: Clearly a lot of early international investment in China went to the eastern coastal board with the ever keen eye on cost production. Some of that is moving to countries like Vietnam and other countries in Asia but some of that is also migrating in china to the Hinterland to the west of China or to the North east of China so it’s a much more complicated dynamic than just investments having gone into China and then moving into further countries and there continues to be a great deal of new investment going into China as well but many businesses obviously have to look at the bottom line and they will go to places, a) where they can get the lowest cost production and b) where they can find the right skills.
Chris Runckel: Right now Vietnam is one of the lowest cost areas out there but that cost will erode over time and then I see India probably even in the future Bangladesh coming up for locations for low cost factories and Vietnam just like china will have to start making ...
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World Business: The UNHCR assists over 30 million refugees in more than 100 countries. Heading the o...
World Business: The UNHCR assists over 30 million refugees in more than 100 countries. Heading the organization is Portugals former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres. Eckart Sager sat down recently with the High Commissioner and began by asking him about the increasing importance of partnerships with the private sector and specifically the role of the council of Business Leaders.
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