Dubai asked for a delay on its debt payments - a move that triggered panic amongst investors. Is the once prosperous, gleaming city in the Gulf on the brink of collapse? And what are the implications for the global economy?
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Inside Story - Dubai's future
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Labels: Economy
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Jimmy's GM Food Fight
Jimmy Doherty, pig farmer, one-time scientist and poster-boy for sustainable food production is on a mission to find out if GM crops really can feed the world.
We need to double the amount of food we produce in the next fifty years to feed the world's growing population. Are GM crops the answer? Or are they a dangerous Frankenstein technology that could start an environmental catastrophe?
To find the answers Jimmy is on a journey that will take him from the vast soya plantations of Argentina to the traditional Amish farms of Pennsylvania; and from the cutting-edge technology of the GM laboratories to the banana plantations of Uganda.
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Labels: Technology
Monday, December 19, 2011
North Korea 7 days diary tourism video
The national geographic photographer David Pluth traveled 2007 through North Korea. This is his video diary!
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Labels: Politics
Welcome to North Korea
The winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary, Welcome to North Korea is a grotesquely surreal look at the all-too-real conditions in modern-day North Korea. Dutch filmmaker Peter Tetteroo and his associate Raymond Feddema spent a week in and around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang -- ample time to produce this outstanding film
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Labels: Politics
