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When Gerard McCarten, a butcher from North Belfast, steeled up his courage to testify before the local health authority about the suicide of his son Danny two years ago, the officials he was dealing with got up and opened the windows in the room onto…

Thousands of motorbikes sweving at high speed and near misses at every corner can make the roaring streets of Hanoi a terrifying place for the uninitiated. But for Vietnamese teenagers like Trinh Thanh Van, the motorized maelstrom is a party on wheels. It's 8 p.m.…

The Philadelphia Foundation was one of the last places Nancy Burd thought she would work. As head of the Philadelphia office of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a foundation grantee, she knew firsthand that it did not have a good reputation. But during the interview process…

A graduation ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House has brought the number of RMIT University graduates in Vietnam to almost 1,000. RMIT Chancellor, Professor Dennis Gibson AO, conferred 385 degrees to graduands from RMIT International University Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City campus.…

Every so often a story serves as a wake-up call that something is very wrong with the way the United States government deals with things. So it was with Saturday’s New York Times article about the actions of federal immigration agents last month in Ohio…

A CHILD'S calendar has many long hours out of school. Afternoons, weekends, and summers offer some children rich experiences and adventures. But for other children these hours are wastelands of idleness, junk television, and opportunities to get into trouble. Fortunately, two state legislators want to…

Federal immigration agents were searching a house in Ohio last month when they found a young Honduran woman nursing her baby. The woman, Saída Umanzor, is an illegal immigrant and was taken to jail to await deportation. Her 9-month-old daughter, Brittney Bejarano, who was born…

As nonprofit institutions have seen donations and investments grow spectacularly in recent years, the urge to keep the money rolling in is being supplemented by a new pressure: make it flow out faster. Politicians, consultants, watchdog groups and even some philanthropists say that foundations, universities,…

When I made my first visit to Viet Nam last month, to visit Atlantic’s office and staff there and travel to rural health clinics, hospitals, schools and NGOs that we support, I couldn’t help but notice that the streets of Ha Noi were teeming with…

The American Association of Community Colleges is developing a nationwide program to retrain the crush of adults who will want -- and need -- to find new work after traditional retirement age, the group will announce today. The organization, which represents 1,200 community colleges across…