# Die Nasionale Navorsingstigting van Suid-Afrika het die uitkoms van sy befondsingsversoek onder die Belmont Forum vir samewerkende navorsing aangekondig. Tien transdissiplinêre navorsingsprojekte is vir befondsing gekies. Die woordvoerder, Bongani Nkosi, sê 172 voorlopige voorstelle en 59 volledige voorstelle is deur navorsers van regoor die wêreld by die stigting ingedien. Die tien projekte word gelei […]
# Frankryk se oudpresident, Nicolas Sarkozy, het vandag die eerste voormalige hoof van ‘n Europese Unie-staat geword wat tronk toe is, maar sy onskuld verklaar toe hy die tronk in Parys binnegaan. Hy was van 2007 tot 2012 Frankryk se regse leier en is verlede maand skuldig bevind aan pogings om befondsing van die Libiese […]
# Japan se nuwe eerste minister, Sanae Takaichi, het slegs twee ander vroue in haar kabinet van 19-lede ingesluit, al het sy Nordiese vlakke van verteenwoordiging beloof. Satsuki Katayama is die eerste vroue-minister van Finansies. Takaichi, ‘n bewonderaar van die voormalige Britse eerste minister, Margaret Thatcher, is vanoggend as die eerste vrou in die posisie […]
# The National Research Foundation of South Africa has announced the culmination of its funding call under the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action initiative. A total of ten transdisciplinary research projects were selected for funding. Spokesperson Bongani Nkosi says 172 pre-proposals and 59 full proposals were submitted to the NRF by researchers from across the […]
# Japan’s new prime minister Sanae Takaichi named just two other women in her 19-strong cabinet, despite previously promising Nordic levels of representation in her government. They included the country’s first female finance minister, Satsuki Katayama. Takaichi, an admirer of former British premier Margaret Thatcher, was named Japan’s first woman prime minister earlier on Tuesday. […]
# France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed today, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. France’s right-wing leader from 2007 to 2012 was found guilty last month of seeking to acquire funding from Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya for the campaign that saw him elected. […]
# Die Liberaal Demokratiese Party se leier, Sanae Takaichi, is die eerste vrou wat as Japan se eerste minister gekies is. Die 64-jarige Takaichi, wat as Japan se “Ystervrou” bekendstaan, het 237 stemme uit 465 in die Parlement se laerhuis gekry. Dit volg nadat haar party ingestem het tot ʼn koalisie met die regse Japan […]
# Liberal Democratic Party leader, Sanae Takaichi, has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister. The 64-year-old, who is known as Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’, won 237 votes in the 465-seat lower chamber of Parliament. The vote comes after her party agreed to a coalition with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party. A big fan […]
# President Donald Trump en die Australiese premier Anthony Albanese het ‘n kritieke mineraal-ooreenkoms onderteken. Dit is daarop gemik om China se pogings vir die verskerping van beheer oor sy wêreldwye voorraad, teen te werk. China beheer tans ongeveer 70-persent van die ontginning van seldsame aardmetale en 90-persent van die verwerking van die materiale. Die […]
