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Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2007More than half of Beijing's young adults born into one-child families want only one child of their own, or even none at all, even though national policy allows them two, state media reported Tuesday. China's family planning policy, introduced in the late 1970s, allows urban dwellers one child to control the nation's fast-growing population, which is now at 1.3 billion. A concession is th ... more China work, road accidents kill nearly 80,000 since January 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2007China said Tuesday that 79,000 people died in industrial and road accidents in the first 10 months of this year, but claimed progress had been made in improving notoriously weak safety standards. The death toll marked a drop of nearly 14 percent over the same period last year, Li Yizhong, work safety minister, said in a speech reported on his administration's website. More than 419,000 r ... more Chinese bamboo firm predicts fast growth after stock market bow 
Frankfurt (AFP) Nov 6, 2007A Chinese bamboo producer is hoping its debut on the stock market will be as vigorous as the plant's legendary growth when it hits the Frankfurt exchange later this month. Asian Bamboo is so confident it will succeed with its first stock market listing anywhere in the world that it has moved its headquarters to the northern German port city of Hamburg ahead of its launch on the market on Nov ... more Key To False Memories Uncovered 
Durham NC (SPX) Nov 07, 2007Duke University Medical Center neuroscientists say the places a memory is processed in the brain may determine how someone can be absolutely certain of a past event that never occurred. These findings could help physicians better appreciate the memory changes that accompany normal aging or even lead to tools for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, according to Duke neuroscientist Roberto ... more NASA Technology Helps Predict And Prevent Future Pandemic Outbreaks 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 07, 2007With the help of 14 satellites currently in orbit and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Applied Sciences Program, scientists have been able to observe the Earth's environment to help predict and prevent infectious disease outbreaks around the world. The use of remote sensing technology aids specialists in predicting the outbreak of some of the most common and deadly infe ... more |
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Prague (AFP) Nov 5, 2007European representatives gathered Monday in Prague to discuss if a "nuclear energy renaissance" was feasible to cut the European Union's dependence on imported energy. "This discussion is necessary to confront our shortfall," Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said, calling on France, Finland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Italy and the Baltic countries to support a "nuclear energy renaissance." ... more Progress Energy Carolinas Seeks Renewable Energy Proposals 
Raleigh NC (SPX) Nov 07, 2007In support of Progress Energy Carolinas' balanced solution to meeting the future energy needs of a growing region -- and to meet increasing renewable energy targets that take effect in the near future -- the company is seeking information from potential suppliers about the availability of renewable and alternative electricity generation. Progress Energy Carolinas issued a request for proposals o ... more ASU Launches Renewable Biofuel Research Initiative 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Nov 07, 2007Arizona State University has announced a significant research partnership with energy company BP and Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) to develop a renewable source of biofuel. The research effort focuses on using a specially optimized photosynthetic bacterium to produce biodiesel, a sustainable high-energy fuel that can be used in conventional engines. "This project illustrates the type o ... more China Holdings Announces Second Biomass Renewable Energy Project 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Nov 07, 2007China Holdings announced the Company has executed its 2nd development contract for the exclusive rights to develop and construct the 2nd Biomass Renewable Energy Project (Power Capacity: 50 MW) through its controlled subsidiary "China Power, Inc." with the local government in AnHui Province, the People's Republic of China. The breakthrough brought the Company potential power capacity: 100 MW in ... more Chinese refiners to raise output to ease supply crunch 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2007China's state-controlled oil refiners have pledged to increase output to ease a domestic supply crunch that led to nationwide fuel price hikes, official media said Tuesday. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), the country's two major refiners, made the promise during a meeting Monday between top company executives and government ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007Anyone who has been following the stormy debate brought on by the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution may well wonder why its national aspects have been forgotten. Were they not intertwined with the social aspects? The events that shook the world took place in the Russian Empire, which had a very complex social-ethnic structure. And it is hard to say whether the social or the ethnic ... more Military Matters: The 'Long War' trap 
Washington (UPI) Nov 5, 2007 As the presidential debaters wallow their sorry way through a sea of inanities, leaving in their wake 600 million glazed eyes, a novel thought occurs: What if some mad cur introduced a real question to one of them? At the very least, it would be fun to watch the puppets' strings snap. Each party has a single candidate who is not a Pinocchio: Ron Paul for the Republicans and Dennis Kucinich for ... more High tech lake clean-up to save Vietnam's legendary turtle 
Hanoi (AFP) Nov 5, 2007Pollution threatens the lake that is the heart and soul of Vietnam's capital -- and a legendary turtle who lives below its murky waters -- but now a high-tech solution may be at hand to save them both. Over the next three years, in time for Hanoi's 1,000th birthday in 2010, scientists intend to clean up Hoan Kiem Lake, home to the creature that symbolises Vietnam's centuries-old struggle for ... more Ash blankets town near Indonesian volcano 
Blitar, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 5, 2007A thin layer of ash blanketed a town in the shadow of a simmering volcano in Indonesia's East Java on Monday causing panic, but it came from a second volcano kilometres away, officials said. The town of Blitar is located outside a 10-kilometre danger zone around the peak of Mount Kelut, where officials predict a powerful and potentially devastating eruption might occur at any time. Its r ... more Europe's forests flourishing, but fire remain a threat: study 
Warsaw (AFP) Nov 5, 2007Fires pose a major threat to Europe's woodlands, but the continent remains the world's only area where forest ecosystems are undergoing a revival, an international study said Monday. "Forest fires continue to be a major challenge," said the study by two United Nations agencies and an international forest body. "Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest are burnt annually," the study sa ... more
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