The assault on Islam by people like the Dutch politician Geert Wilders is obscuring, not helping the debates raging within the communities with islamic heritages and beliefs.

More than 240 million people use Portuguese as their mother tongue, but to gain the global status that she deserves, the language of Pessoa doesn’t have to count on Portugal, but on Brazil.

‘There’s no place like home’, says the manager of a Nigerian videotheque in Antwerp. The homesickness of expats largely explains the attractiveness of Nollywood: Nigerian movies who all take place in traditional villages or towns like Lagos and who all deal with tradition, murder, intrigue and love.

London and Birmingham are the home base of big islamic organizations like Muslim Aid and Islamic Relief. Founded in the eighties they are today established professional relief organizations who can offer help overseas with projects worth millions. Their ideology is based on the ethics of the Koran, their fundraising on methods of experienced market ...

Last year, the horticulture sector issued out 17.000 temporary work permits to foreign workers from the new European member states. Especially the Polish were employed in the fruit sector as pluckers and sorters. The Indian Sikh, who used to do the plucking in the fruit sector in Haspengouw, can’t do anything about it.

Tarun J. Tepjal was named among the fifty most influential Asians by Asiaweek. BusinessWeek also put him in a list of fifty leaders in the frontline for change in Asia. In December 2006, the British newspaper The Guardian classified him within the top twenty of the new Indian elite.

Gradually sustainability becomes a serious issue for a growing number of Belgian entrepreneurs. The way they approach the idea of fair trade does not make everybody happy.

In July, heads of state of the strongest economies of the world met in Hokkaido, Japan. Carefully but resolutely, new economic powers have been making their entrance in the game of world politics.

Wthin the framework of the War on Terror, the American army started training Pakistani Special Forces to hunt down important militants in the Taliban. Key to this is john Negroponte. he eighties revisited.

The impressive economic growth of India is not equally divided amongst all Indians. Social struggle and an ambitious employment law could improve the situation.

When a minister from a far away country visits Brussels, one would expect an agenda fully booked with political appointments. Not so for Gilberto Gil, Brazils minister of culture and icon of Brazilian rhythms. On his tour through Europe he also visited Brussels where he played a concert for a full Bozar-theatre at the beginning of April. For Gil, c ...

At the beginning of June, the European Union launched a civil-military mission in Guinea-Bissau to help reforming the security sector. The West African country is an important transit hub for cocaine towards Europe.