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Bill Gates Urges India Toward High-End Research and Development

July 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Bill Gates suggested during a visit to New Delhi that India needs to change its focus from low-end manufacturing to high-end research and development, the better to sustain the IT end of its economy and compete with China. Gates will also reportedly discuss a possible partnership between Microsoft and the Unique Identification Authority of India to issue standardized ID cards to Indias billion-plus citizens.
– Bill Gates advised India
to expand its IT horizons and concentrate more on high-end research and
development, as opposed to its current focus on technology manufacturing.
quot;At first some of that [IT boom] was built on low-cost labor, quot;
Gates said during his visit to New Delhi,
accordin…

NATO urges allies to do more in Afghanistan

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

NATO’s secretary-general regrets failing to get more member states to give up national “caveats” excluding them from missions in places like Afghanistan. Speaking to foreign policy experts on July 20 before he leaves his post next week after 5 1/2 years, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said he would have liked to have done more to get all NATO member states contributing in equal measure to the alliance’s operations.

Clinton urges global fight on terrorism

July 19th, 2009 | No Comments

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged U.S. support in the global fight on terrorism Saturday, VOA reports. She met with victims of last year’s terror attacks in India’s commercial city, Mumbai.

South Africa union urges review of inflation policy

July 19th, 2009 | No Comments

South Africa’s powerful Confederation of South African Trade Unions Â (Cosatu) labour federation reiterated its demand on Saturday that the country’s inflation targeting policy be reviewed. Inflation targeting has been a source of friction between the ANC government and its allies in the

Passionate Obama hails black history, urges ‘new mindset’

July 17th, 2009 | No Comments

US President Barack Obama paid passionate tribute to black civil rights trailblazers on the centennial of the NAACP, but said a “new mindset” was necessary to achieve a post-racial America. The first black president in US history received a thunderous welcome at a dinner Thursday marking the

U.S. urges patience in Honduras crisis talks

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

The United States Tuesday that there should be no artificial deadlines in efforts by Costa Rica President Oscar Arias to mediate the Honduran political crisis. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says he will quit the talks unless he is reinstated quickly.