She says that the institutes have become lodestones of what she calls a "China fear".When China opened its first Confucius Institute in 2004 in Seoul, it hoped the new effort would prove as uncontroversial as cultural-outreach programmes sponsored by Western governments, such as the British Council, the Alliance Française and Germany's Goethe-Institut.
Meanwhile local TV stations follow every twist and turn of the presidential election campaign - some are lengthy programmes sponsored by rival political parties.
Only isolated oral health programmes have been conducted in a few nurseries (such as oral hygiene training organized by dental students or programmes sponsored by dental companies).
Kushner et al. present anecdotal evidence of the brain drain into 'projects' in a letter to the Lancet [ 43]: Staff at central and district health facilities are leaving in record numbers to work for programmes sponsored by either overseas universities or nongovernmental organisations.
They were shown clothes shopping, bathing the dog, attending parties and contacting one another on Facebook, which was mentioned so often that it might almost have been a programme sponsor.
The pilot programme, sponsored by Bangladesh and financed by the World Bank, is now to be extended to 1.45 million girls.
When the programme sponsors pulled out at the last minute, he sold his house to pay for the arrangements.
Called Dignità e Libertà, it is part of a programme sponsored by Banca Etica, a cooperative bank, in support of civic culture and legality.
How Israel's "Iron Dome" worksThe Iron Dome a $1 billion programme sponsored by America has intercepted over four-fifths of rockets fired at Israeli cities by Hamas militants in Gaza.
When, in a live radio programme sponsored by General Foods, the presenter asked him to tell an enormous national audience whether he enjoyed any special breakfast food, Gehrig replied "a heaping bowlful of Wheaties".
