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The vote at the plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process in Guangzhou, China, in November for the country to serve as Vice Chair of the KP during 2015, which ended [...]

A history of America's involvement with training civilian police officers in South Vietnam since the French departed from Indochina in 1954, especially during the war years, is presented. In 1962 when the Public Safety Program began, South Vietnam had 4,000 poorly trained police but in 1973 a 124,000 well-organized police force was in place.

Almost every president of the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) in he past decade or so has spoken of his heartfelt wish to recreate the large diamond manufacturing capability that the [...]

Having spent the last decade trying to persuade jewelry buyers that it is not trading in conflict diamonds, could the diamond trade be about to be hit by another bout [...]

What steps do retailers need to take to entice customers into stores, particularly in the Internet age when a vast wealth of information is available for free and when shopping [...]

Given the swiftness of the impact of the global financial crisis, it seems a long time ago that diamond producers were cheerfully speaking about rising rough diamond prices, and optimistically [...]

Diamond industry leaders from all over the world and from all sectors of the industry came together to overwhelmingly support the beneficiation policies of diamond producing states in southern African [...]

'You get Blood Diamond's number the minute you first see the trailer: It's a grandiose attempt by Hollywood to address issues elsewhere in the world. But instead of addressing the [...]

As the search for lower-cost diamonds, particularly those with spectacular colors, has become more prevalent, the term HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) has become widely known in the diamond industry [...]

The efforts of the global diamond industry to stamp out conflict diamonds and raise awareness of the conditions in which many miners work are well known in the diamond trade. [...]

Online jewelry buying would appear to be tailor-made for that most important section of the jewelry-buying public-men. Locking themselves away with just the computer for company, they can spend hours [...]

As any diamantaire will attest, the most mundane part of the job on a daily basis is sorting, weighing and .at. measuring diamonds. But those tasks are also amongst the [...]

The efforts of the global diamond industry to stamp out conflict diamonds and raise awareness of the conditions in which many miners work are well known in the diamond trade. [...]

After battling for more than half a decade to reassure consumers that it does not deal in conflict diamonds, are the efforts of the global diamond industry about to be [...]

The Rapaport price list is one of the most contentious subjects in the diamond industry with as many detractors as supporters. A recent dispute between a group of diamantaires and [...]

It may come as something of a surprise to most people involved in the global diamond and jewelry trade that Russia does not have a regularly functioning bourse. Although the [...]

Steve Rimmer, before joining the Public Safety Program in Vietnam as a civilian advisor, was a country sheriff in the town of Marshall. His journey from a sheriff to a civilian advisor is explained.