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E-Learning   Chronos   The e-learning tutorial Chronos deals with the business case for sustainable development. It is intended as a straightforward introduction for employees that can help organisations move sustainable development thinking into the mainstream.   Companies know that if sustainability is to be embedded in their organisations, their staff will need training. E-learning provides a practical and cost-effective alternative to a conventional training course.   There are now more than 200 organisations through the world using Chronos, with a total of around 150,000 user licences. Some, including Shell, Rio Tinto, and Philips, have customised Chronos to their own requirements, which can include corporate branding as well as video messages from their own executives. The software has been translated into Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and standard Portuguese.   Chronos was developed in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. It is available via the Internet and on CD-ROM.

the Host city expects 80 million visitors, 70 million of whom will be Chinese.

The world expo is scheduled to start May 1 2010 and will last 6 months.

We are delighted to be so advanced in our preparations for the Expo

a mixture of Australian red earth and Chinese soil into a ceremonial vessel that will be placed in the pavilion's foundations.

When the Dalai Lama is trying his best to peddle his idea of "greater autonomy" in Tibet and "democracy", his followers or the people who have been hoodwinked by his proposals will probably claim that "Tibet only belongs to the Tibetans."

Every country is beautiful in its own manner and is really worth visiting, but there are some countries that attract much more tourists than others. There is the list of the 5 of the most visited countries of the last several years: 1) France (76.7 million visitors a year) 2) Spain (51.7 million visitors) 3) U.S. (41.9 million visitors) 4) Italy (39.8 million visitors) 5) China (36.8 million visitors)This is the data of 1998: 1) France (70 million visitors) 2) Spain (47,7 million visitors) 3) United States (47 million visitors) 4) Italy (34,8 million visitors) 5) United Kingdom (25,4 million visitors)

Singapore Wednesday unveiled the theme and design of the Singapore pavilion for World Expo Shanghai 2010.

the theme of the pavilion, Urban Symphony, pays tribute to Singapore symbolizing its harmony of culture, progress and sustainability. The 3,000 square-meter Singapore pavilion is designed to demonstrate the viability and benefits of urban planning in building sustainable cities.

ilbert posits what he calls "the constitutive principle of nationalism": the view that the widely varying types of nationalism we see in today’s world "can best be explained by regarding the nation as a group of a kind that has a right to statehood" (1). The book therefore attempts "to classify the accounts of nationhood that can be given in terms of the kinds of argument for statehood they support" (1). This approach has the merit of avoiding the pitfalls suffered by Ernest Gellner’s dictum that nationalism is the principle which holds that "the political and national unit should be congruent." As Gilbert points out, not all nationalists hold that only nations are entitled to statehood (17).

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