December, 2010

• 2 December

  Live Webinar: “Interest-Based Finance and Global Warming: Making the Connection”

    How does interest-based finance contribute to global warming? And how does Islamic finance provide an alternative? We explore these and other topics in this 40 minute presentation and follow up with your live Q&A.   Cost: FREE  Where: The comfort of your desk  When: 6pm Dubai time, Sunday, December 12, 2010 What You Get: 40 minute presentation with slides Live Q&A Guidance …

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• 2 December

  Malaysian Scholarships 2011

  The Scholarship Division of the Ministry of Higher Education provides several scholarship programmes to international students to pursue their higher education in Malaysia. The financial aid provided by the Scholarship Division, MOHE are: i) Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan The Malaysian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan are awarded by the Malaysian Government to the nominated students from the Commonwealth countries …

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• 1 December

  PM speech at Eid reception.

  Transcript of speech given by the Prime Minister at No 10, Downing Street, 22 November 2010. Thank you very much for that, and can I say how incredibly welcome you all are. There are really three things I want to say tonight. The first is that I think we should be a country that celebrates and looks up to faith, …

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November, 2010

• 29 November

  Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme, By Ian Black and Simon Tisdall

  Embassy cables show Arab allies want strike against Tehran Israel prepared to attack alone to avoid its own 9/11 Iranian bomb risks 'Middle East proliferation, war or both'   "Embassy cables reveal the US, Israel and Arab states suspect Iran is close to acquiring nuclear weapons despite Tehran's insistence that its programme is designed to supply energy. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters"] …

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• 28 November

  Sri Lanka – the “beach-head” for A Tamil Homeland – Ven. Walpola Piyananda, Chief Sangha Nayake of America

    There are over 100 million ethnic Tamils scattered throughout the world without a “motherland” they can call their own. This has instilled in the Tamil consciousness an unfounded sense of low self-esteem. Tamil academics decided the way to remedy this situation was to establish a “beach-head” for a national ethnic identity; their own country. Ven. Walpola Piyananda in his …

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• 27 November

  Petition to David Cameron: Calling for any Apology/Action on Balfour Declaration

  Petition to David Cameron: Calling for any Apology/Action on Balfour Declaration Balfour Declaration is a day that will be written for ever in the history of Palestine and its people. In November the 2nd each year we remember this black day. This year is 93rd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. We shall remember it with actions not only words. We …

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• 27 November

  Israel denies any role in death of German politician.

  Berlin paper blames Mossad for assassinating Uwe Barschel in 1987 because of his supposed knowledge of Israeli-Iranian arms deals. BERLIN – Swiss chemical professor Hans Brandenberger has issued a report that appears to lay a scientific basis for the theory developed by a self-identified former Mossad agent that an Israeli hit team assassinated scandal-plagued German politician Uwe Barschel in his …

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