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Gender

How Can We Empower Women Entrepreneurs Around The World?

Since childhood, Gircilene Gilca de Castro dreamed of owning her own business, but struggled to get it off the ground. Her fledgling food service company in Brazil had only...

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Bollywood

Big B To become Maharashtra’s ‘Tiger Ambassador’

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will now use his charisma to protect tigers. The 72-year-old actor has accepted the Maharashtra government’s invitation to become a brand am...

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Gender

Cate Blanchett To Direct TV Series ‘Stateless’

Cate Blanchett is to develop and direct an Australian TV series, “Stateless.” The series centers on “the tragic and true story of Cornelia Rau, which made...

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Festivals

Big Names Line Up For Busan Project Market

“Leading Asian auteurs including Hana Makhmalbaf, Yu Likwai and India’s Kanu Behl will this year take up places at the Asian Project Market, part of the Busan f...

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Thought Factory

The Many Faces Of Media

Panoramic landscapes of rock formations on face of the earth are not the only structures that present the spectacle of erosion. What takes infinite centuries to change the ...

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Thought Factory

Top 5 New Media/Web Platforms For Change

I recently read an article by Sean Parker, the founder president of Facebook and the man behind the revolutionary Napster,that took the music world by storm, speaking about...

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Health

Indian Private Hospitals Biggest Beneficiaries Of International Aid Programmes

The biggest recipients of investment through aid programmes of rich nations have been the large commercial hospital chains in the emerging economy countries. Limited to a f...

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Festivals

Locarno's Open Doors Gets New Awards.

MAD Solutions among backers of Maghreb films in Co-pro Lab line up. Arab-focused promotion agency MAD Solutions will this year provide distribution and promotional support ...

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Sustainable Development

Can We Finance Sustainable Development?

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been the most comprehensive international poverty alleviation movement in history. Since 1990, extreme poverty has been cut by ...

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Environment

Climate Change Fight Will Help Global Economy, Al Gore Tells Toronto Conference

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said fighting climate change will be a boon to the global economy, despite critics? fears that abandoning fossil fuels will cripple world...

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