by Robert Reich
President Obama says he wants to “rebalance” the economic relationship between China and the U.S. as part of his plan to restart the American jobs machine. “We cannot go back,” he said in September, “to an era where the Chinese . . . just are selling everything to us, we’re taking out a [...]

By Denis Campbell
International Business Wales (IBW), subject of a Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) expenses inquiry initiated this past summer by the Welsh Lib Dems, last month released an annual report showing Wales ranked near the bottom of the table of UK business development regions. IBW will conduct three trade missions to the United Arab Emirates [...]

 
How ecologically intelligent are you at consuming?
By Dorret Groot Wassink
Daniel Goleman’s new book Ecological Intelligence showed me how little I really knew about living ‘ecologically intelligent’. Some of the facts: 
Are you aware that:
• most normal plastic bottles contain materials that cause cancer or that loads of normal everyday cosmetics, from shampoos to advanced slimming lotions [...]

London is all a Twitter as President Obama arrived here three hours ago, walked to the base of the Air Force One staircase then levitated across the tarmac to the amazement of startled onlookers, his red cape flowing beneath his 50,000 watt smile.
OK, I mean the BBC providing a live feed was a bit much [...]

The Dutch know how to throw a party. In 2000 in Sydney, the hottest Olympic ticket was not to the Opening or Closing Ceremonies. It was to Holland House beside Sydney Harbour where the parties were so festive and long that athletes from other countries clamoured to join in and one eventually had to produce [...]

The most spectacular opening ceremony of a modern Olympiad is in the bag. 15,000 in the cast. Synchronised fireworks, drumming and dancing wowed an audience of 4 billion globally on the telly. A remarkable festival of colours and digital effects combined with movements that took a year to rehearse under what had to have been [...]