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...Chilembwe and John Chorley installed as a statue last year on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square....
...” ‘7 Rules of Power: Surprising — but True — Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career’, by Jeffrey Pfeffer Ever since the 19th-century English historian Lord John Dalberg-Acton wrote “power...
...In 1597, the herbalist John Gerard observed that nutmeg “is good against freckles in the face, quickneth the sight, strengthens the belly and feeble liver, taketh away the swelling of the spleen”....
...The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh, John Murray £20, 352 pages Andrea Wulf is the author of ‘The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost...
...“When we talk about us getting huge sums of money in aid, I worry about the tone,” says Joyce Banda, Malawi’s former president....
...John Zamit, chair of the local residents’ association, claims his lobbying reduced the planned height of the new development by two floors and secured public parking and toilets....
...These included the discovery of unauthorised payments to the chief executive and chief operating officer — which resulted in their dismissal, a “significant” reduction in reserves at Banda Rash in Kurdistan...
...Nine years after the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated the Indonesian province of Aceh, a fishing boat still sits on the roof of a destroyed house in the suburbs of Banda Aceh....
...Lines Teruo Asada, Chairman, Marubeni Corporation Pedro Aspe, Co-Chair, Evercore Partners Khalid Awan, Chairman, TCS Holdings Babar Badat, Managing Director, Transfreight Corporation Alhaji Asoma Banda...
...McCain: Why Asia wants America, The Diplomat Pre-emptive fine tuning, China Daily Rajat Gupta’s billionnaire friends say he did a lot for India, The Economic Times President Joyce Banda shakes up Malawi...
...What followed was even more mind-boggling: a simultaneous performance of three works by John Cage....
...Until the mid-1950s, the only “technologies” available to help managers run a manufacturing shop floor were materials ledger cards and spirit duplicators (known as Ditto machines in the US and Banda machines...
...A British architect, John McAslan, was already involved in Haiti before the disaster, but the devastation made his contribution all the more critical....
...John Williams, Blackburn chairman, said he hoped to sell the club to the Rao family by next month....
...By the end of the first week the once sleepy airport of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, was a buzzing logistical hub. Within a month a peace agreement that still holds today was being negotiated....
...By John Aglionby in Banda Aceh Cut Nur Laili, the head of an agriculture office in the village of Kampung Baru, 25km north of the central Aceh town of Calang, says the road being built down the west coast...
...We stayed in the Hermes Palace, one of four perfectly satisfactory four-star hotels in Banda Aceh. John Aglionby is the FT’s Jakarta correspondent...
...Quality has improved since then, he said, but sub-standard work is still commonplace, particularly in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital....
...The main road between the Acehnese capital of Banda Aceh and Meulaboh has been severed, slowing the aid operation....
...Group Captain John Oddie, the officer in charge of Australian relief shipments, told Indonesian General Bambang Darmono, as they stood near a group of idle soldiers....
...In Banda Aceh, the province?s capital, decomposing bodies continued to line the city?s streets. Shops had collapsed and government buildings damaged....
...On Wednesday, groups including Medicin Sans Frontier and medical teams from Australia were seen setting up camp in Banda Aceh , where the Indonesian military had been flying in aid from nearby north Sumatra...
...More delay in relief efforts was expected on Monday, when the US suspended its aid helicopters to Aceh after a Seahawk helicopter crashed near the Banda Aceh airport in the morning....
...By John Burton in Singapore, Shawn Donnan in Banda Aceh, Amy Kazmin in Thailand, Ray Marcelo in Sri Lanka, Khozem Merchant in New Delhi, Christopher Swann in Washington and Frances Williams in Geneva How...
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