Report: Stanford University hit by 26 percent decline in investments

FMIC and UA&P expect 2% GDP growth rate in 3rd quarter

By: edlopez

The Philippine economy is projected to grow by 2 percent in the third quarter of the 2009, according to FMIC and UA&P Capital Markets Research.  “We expect a more robust export demand and early election spending to boost GDP by 4.2 percent in the fourth quarter and lead to a full-year average of 2.2 percent,” the report said. &...

about 1 month ago

Hunger 'kills 17,000 children per day'

By: azhar12

Somewhere in the world, a child dies of hunger every five seconds -- even though the planet has more than enough food for all. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general, laid out the sobering statistic as he kicked off a three-day summit on world food security in Rome on Monday. "Today, more than 1 billion people are hungry," he told the ...

9 days ago

China Fuels US Foreign Student Boom

By: voiceofkashmir

By Shaun TandonSoaring interest by Chinese students has led to record foreign enrollment at US universities, offering a potential boon to the United States both economically and politically, a study said.Indians remained the biggest group of foreign students in the United States in the last academic year but their numbers appeared to be leveling ...

8 days ago

Saudi Arabia's 'Stanford' opens

By: dustgeer

ALONG the shores of the Red Sea, 80km from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, hundreds of guests gathered yesterday to celebrate the birth of a university. lThe Saudi government spared no expense to fly in university presidents, Nobel laureates and government leaders, among others, to witness the inauguration of the King Abdullah University of Science and ...

2 months ago