TWAS has been promoting South-South collaboration in science since its inception in 1983. Felix Korbla Akorli from Ghana, now lecturer in telecommunications in Rwanda, was among the first awardees of a South-South fellowship. In 1995 he travelled from Ghana to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study radio propagation. We asked him what impact the fellowship had on his subsequent career.

Fernando Quevedo (TWAS Fellow 2010), director of the Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, in an article in our recent TWAS Newsletter, describes the importance of the exciting discovery this summer of a Higgs-boson like particle – and the early role played by Abdus Salam, founder of both TWAS and ICTP.

Chinese president Hu Jintao opened TWAS's 12th General Conference in Tianjin

Trieste, in northern Italy, is where TWAS has its headquarters - and this weekend, for the first time, the city is home to an ambitious new event called 'Trieste Next' which aims to bring together the many and diverse scientific institutions clustered throughout Trieste and its hinterland.

Organized in collaboration with TWAS and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), this discussion forum at Trieste Next featured three distinguished experts, who explained the science, politics and impacts of climate change to an eager audience composed largely of high school and university students.

A woman scientist from Bangladesh has been awarded the first Atta-ur-Rahman Prize. Shamsun Nahar Khan was honoured for her work on enzyme identification and inhibition, cutting-edge research on the borders of chemistry and biology.

Three TWAS Fellows have been selected to present the TWAS Medal lectures at next year's annual meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

During the closing session of the 2012 edition of Trieste Next, the City's Mayor announced that the theme of next year's event would be water. TWAS invited wetland's water expert Nick Davidson, to kick off the debate.

Margaret Kamar, Kenya’s Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology, comments on her cabinet's future plans to disseminate a scientific culture in her country.

Following a workshop in Penang, Malaysia, TWAS and ISTIC announce the three winners of the 'ISTIC-TWAS' Entrepreneurship Awards' for innovations in science and technology from developing countries.