The future of TVET in India and all other countries of the world will be the focus of Third International Congress on TVET (Shanghai, 13-16 May 2012).
Does the UK want to see its biggest television operation taken over by the same corporate culture that gave us the corrupt journalistic practices of the News of the World and that still own a third of the country's national press?
Indonesia claims the second-largest number of Facebook members in the world, and the third-largest number of Twitter users.
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The last crop out of Brazil, the supplier of more than one-third of the world's coffee, was a relatively small one.
In association with the Australian Memory of the World Committee and under the auspices of the Australian National Commission for UNESCO, the National Library of Australia will organize the Third International Memory of the World Conference from 19 to 22 February 2008 in Canberra, Australia.
This event was the second stage of the world downhill series and the third in the international 4X competition.
On the other side of the world, China, the third country to put a human into orbit on its own rockets, will be launching Tiangong 1, the first module of its own space station, as soon as September.
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The 1972 Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the third fundamental pillar, is the most popular and famous in the body of legal texts on heritage.
The pontificate which has just ended has, however, already come under heavy criticism by some Catholic groups, and many outside the Church for its failure to deal with some of the most pressing issues facing the world's oldest international organisation at the beginning of the third Christian millennium.
For while we are used to talking of slum or shanty dwellers as squatters or encroachers, the story of the Third World is that it is the rich who encroach and do so successfully on the lands of communities.
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The musical centers of the Third World--such as Cairo, Bombay, Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, and pre-Castro Havana--have been heterogeneous and cosmopolitan cities that welcomed new ideas and new technologies from outside.
If, on the other hand, they are too rigid, they will be impossible to apply to the varied environments of the third world, where countries from Argentina to Zaire have suffered banking crises.
Some European countries have enjoyed healthy growth in recent years, but Germany, the biggest economy in the euro area (and the world's third largest) had two quarters of negative growth in the second half of last year, according to figures released on February 27th: as a rule of thumb, that is how economists judge whether a country is in recession.
The World Wide Fund for Nature says a third of the world's forests are under serious threat from climate change -- with dire implications for the species that live in them.
In the great shanty towns of the Third World most residents are squatting.
The Fund helped to contain the third-world debt crisis of the 1980s and to restore confidence in Mexico three years ago.
We say that the modern world got rich by (at a minimum) 1500% percent compared with 1800 not, as the sadly mistaken Accumulators say, because of capital accumulation, or exploitation of the third world, or the expansion of foreign trade.
It is a trait that has earned the Malaysian recognition on the international stage as director of the Penang-based Third World Network (TWN).
Using a market mechanism to pass on the true cost of fossil fuel usage, including the environmental damage here at home AND in the third world, and the longer term effects of greenhouse gas emissions and resulting climate change.
He won a trip to Buenos Aires and came back thinking he should participate in the surging commodity-led economies of the Third World.
Al Jazeera has always been regarded as something of a vanity venture by the wealthy emir of Qatar, which is home to the world's third largest gas reserve and is spending billions of dollars on its public image profile by sponsoring sports events at home and in Europe, experts said.
London has almost a third of the world's foreign-exchange dealing and over a third of over-the-counter derivatives business.
Keeping them at school is the key to lifting their community out of the third world.
But the stock- futures division is the third rail of the exchange world.
Already the fourth largest car market in the world in terms of sales, Brazil is poised to take the third spot from Japan within the next decade.
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The ICC also looked into the possibility of wrongdoing in the third Test after Majeed allegedly told the News of the World that he could affect events on the field at The Oval.
They make much of the finding that capital is draining from America to the third world, and of the fact that recently America has run a deficit in its balance of payments.
While the other seven leaders from North America, Europe and Japan fret about the digital divide, and the poor health and bad debts of the world's hard-up nations (see article), Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, by his own admission, knows he is struggling to avoid his country's relegation from the big-power table to the ranks of the third world.
The 46 marine sites inscribed on the World Heritage List constitute more than one third of all marine protected areas on the planet.
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Jun Azumi, a former journalist, takes up the important role of finance minister for the world's third-largest economy.
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