Judea Pearl is the recipient of the fourteenth edition of the ICT Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the Spanish bank group BBVA for “providing a modern foundation to Artificial Intelligence”. The award includes a prize of €400,000 (about $457,000). Artificial...
02/22/2022 We, the undersigned Former Leaders and civil society representatives of countries of the European Union, the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Middle East wish to express our grave concern about the rapidly growing threat of large-scale armed conflict that is...
Name Title 1 Ali E. Adiguze President and COO, HeidelbergCement Trading Group, Turkey 2 Henrik G. Andersin Chairman Evli Bank PLC, Finland 3 Kalpona Akter Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity 4 Nazmar Akter General Secretary &...
Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter and editor for The New York Times, Emmy Award-winning producer for PBS’ show Frontline and author of five best-selling books, Hedrick Smith, explains what happened to America’s economy after WWII in his book Who Stole the...
With all eyes on Bangladesh, it's worthwhile to take a look at safety standards in garment factories in other countries. An International Labor Organization report discloses a disappointing decline in worker safety in Cambodia. Fire safety standards in Cambodian...
In yet another testimony to how the garment industry in Bangladesh is evading reform, Emran Hossain, writing for the Huffington Post, states that the reforms made by the Bangladesh government targeted at the garment industry "barely improve safeguards for impoverished...
In a story ‘Wal-Mart, Gap, Others Agree to Boost Worker Safety in Bangladesh’ published on July 10, 2013, by William Mauldin from Dow Jones, reflects the efforts by Wal-Mart and other leading American retailers to bolster worker safety efforts in Bangladesh, although...
Wish for a peaceful world and a developed US during President Obama’s second term was the main content of a talk between the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Administration and former US President candidate Michael Dukakis in Hanoi on April 9. Prof....