While paying for a course in typing now seems unwise, people can dedicate themselves to the tips all over the Internet to learn how to improve their typing. Or, have the TypingWeb, an interesting and free service.
The exemption from registration site, but users who want to take the course seriously and keep a record of [...]

Don’t you know how to use Twitter? Don’t you understand the concept of real-time web? Or even don’t know what Twitter is? How about doing a course (with a certificate and everything) on the most talked about “social system” nowadays?
More than something that looks like a joke, courses on how to use Twitter are becoming [...]

There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than [...]

In the ‘total war’ waged by Pakistan against the Taliban, the Zardari government  wants to fence in the Koranic schools which the West accuses of being breeding ground for jihadists. These institutions are under fire because of their alleged influence on the spirit of militancy. As it is, all madrassas in Pakistan are still outside [...]

Before 2000, the buzzword ‘WTO’ was less understood. The primordial concern of tariff reduction was somehow nondescript to people. It was, perhaps, in the later concept of the governments’ uses of ‘non-tariff barriers to trade’ that got the WTO much press.
The WTO has been controversial in such areas as anti-dumping measures, environmental and safety regulations, [...]

For at least five miles, one can witness different intertwining plants, trees, creepers, ferns, mosses, and orchids that seem to be in a perpetual struggle for light and life. A tiny hummingbird nest holds an egg about to hatch and a baby already born. Bats fluff their wings while under the shelter of a giant [...]

Singapore focuses strongly on education and equips this stance with well-qualified teachers and school administrators, as well as world-class schooling facilities. Your child’s education in Singapore is assuredly of international standards. Currently, there are about 5 nurseries and playschools, 7 private preschools, 12 Montessori schools, and 36 international schools in Singapore. The general youth literacy [...]

Singapore is a major magnet for foreign professionals pursuing an international career path. In the key arenas of Information Technology, Biotechnology, Software, Consultancy, Banking and Finance, and Education/Educational Services, more and more professional expatriates choose to make Singapore their next home. In its decisive efforts to transform itself into a knowledge-based economy, Singapore has created [...]

The donor conference in Tokyo for Pakistan has concluded with commitments of over $5bn over the next two years. This is more than the expectation of the Japanese government which hosted the event along with the World Bank (WB). The massive amount is for ‘additional support’ to the social safety nets, human development, and anti-poverty [...]

Acting on a Taliban mandate, some 400 private schools in Pakistan’s northwest Swat Valley were closed down, ending the education of more than 40,000 students. The Swat Valley is yet another one among Taliban-controlled places where basic human rights are trampled upon.
The academe is a place where minds are wrought, reasoning skills are honed, and [...]