News Source: The Mercury News
| 11 days ago
Instead of moving inventory and selling services, these entrepreneurs aim to bring electricity to those without lights, nutrition to those who will die without supplemental vitamins and low-cost solar hearing aids for those who otherwise couldn't
News Source: The Guardian
| 19 days ago
It rests on looking beyond our borders Monday's celebration in Berlin was a brilliant closure. The opening of a European foreign policy looks more shaky Well, they did it beautifully. Despite the rain, I found the official celebration of the fall of
News Source: Scoop
| 22 days ago
Djuyoto was in Semarang to check the finishing stage of the making of a world peace gong by a Central Java craftsman in Jepara district. He said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was scheduled to strike the gong to mark the opening of the World
News Source: Xtra News
| 23 days ago
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus brought ideas for creating micro "social businesses" from Bangladesh to Europe Saturday with support from several of the world's leading corporations. Yunus, who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for developing micro-
News Source: The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| 23 days ago
The bill, introduced by Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT), recognises Prof Yunus as a leading figure in fighting poverty and promoting economic and social opportunity. The senate approved the bill
News Source: Seattle Times
| 25 days ago
The Rural Development Institute said today it received the largest grant in its history -- $9 million over three years -- from the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment group started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam. Omidyar
News Source: The Dallas Morning News
| 28 days ago
Yunus will accept the award Feb. 25 as part of a public lecture at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. Before the lecture, Yunus will share his insights with students, faculty and staff members at the Sherman school during a convocation and luncheon. "
News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 month ago
Perhaps not surprisingly, many of them looked old for their age. Being a professor of electrical engineering, he noticed something else, too. “I looked into the window of a schoolhouse, and it was just so dark,” Irvine-Halliday explains from his