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Taiwan man indicted for allegedly leaking national secrets
Taipei (AFP) Nov 14, 2007A retired top Taiwanese military intelligence officer has been indicted on charges of collecting and leaking classified information that was published in his book, officials said Wednesday. Pang Ta-wei, a former deputy section chief of the Military Intelligence Bureau, was indicted on September 17, said Chen Jui, spokesman for the Prosecutors' Office of the High Court. "He was indicted o ... more Cyclone poised to slam into Bangladesh, eastern India 
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 14, 2007A cyclone packing high winds and heavy rains could slam into Bangladesh as early as Thursday and India a day later, forecasters said. Bangladesh went on alert on Wednesday as weather officials said Tropical Cyclone Sidr, hovering over the Bay of Bengal, could hit the southeastern coast of the disaster-prone country within 24 hours. "The cyclone is approaching the coastal area of Banglad ... more Record amount of waste dumped in China's Yangtze River 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2007A record 30.5 billion tonnes of industrial, farming and human waste were dumped last year into China's Yangtze River, the country's longest, state media reported. The quantity was twice as much as two decades ago and an increase of 900 million tonnes, or 3.1 percent, from the previous year, Xinhua news agency said late Tuesday. The widespread dumping of industrial, agricultural and domes ... more More than 600 killed, millions impacted by Yangtze flooding 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Floods and other disasters killed at least 600 people in China's Yangtze River basin during this year's May-October rainy season, when serious flooding ravaged much of the nation, state media reported. The disasters affected about 90 million people along the country's longest river and destroyed 440,000 houses, Xinhua news agency said in a report late Tuesday. The events caused direct ec ... more Future Australian govt may use military to track Japanese whalers 
Sydney (AFP) Nov 15, 2007Australia's military could be used to track Japanese whaling vessels if the opposition wins next week's election as polls predict, a top opposition figure said Thursday. A Labor government would take advice from defence officials on the best way to monitor Japanese whaling vessels carrying out 'scientific whaling' in Australian waters, foreign affairs spokesman Robert McClelland said. "W ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Nov 14, 2007The Bay of Bengal is an unexpected weapon against global warming as it helps store vast quantities of terrestrial carbon brought down by the Ganges-Brahmaputra river systems, a study says. Rivers bring down to the sea carbon in the form of soil and vegetal debris, washed down from slopes, fields and banks. But little is known about what happens to this carbon-rich sediment once it reaches th ... more Japan, China still stuck on energy sea spat 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Japan and China failed to break an impasse Wednesday in a spat over lucrative gas fields in the East China Sea but agreed to keep talking amid a recent easing of tension between the countries. Asia's two largest economies, which are also among the world's biggest energy importers, held their 11th round of talks since 2004 in a bid to resolve a row over their maritime boundaries. The two ... more China's economy 40 percent smaller than estimated: analyst 
Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2007China's economy is 40 percent smaller than most recent estimates, a US economist said Wednesday, citing data from the Asian Development Bank and guidelines from the World Bank. Albert Keidel, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former US Treasury official and World Bank economist, made the comments in a report published by the US think tank and in a com ... more China says key pollution indicators improve 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2007Two major pollution indicators have dropped in China for the first time in several years as steps taken to clean up the nation's devastated environment kicked in, the government said Wednesday. Emissions of sulfur dioxide, a key air pollutant, declined 1.81 percent in the first nine months of the year, while chemical oxygen demand, a measure of water pollution, was 0.28 percent lower, said Z ... more India's coalition 'near compromise' on US nuclear deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 14, 2007India's troubled coalition is close to a compromise over the future of an atomic energy deal with Washington that had threatened to bring down the government, an official said Wednesday. The official close to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said left-wing politicians, who prop up the dominant Congress party, may allow the government to engage in talks on moving the deal forward while retaining ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Nov 13, 2007Pakistan's nuclear weapons are under "total custodial controls," President Pervez Musharraf told Fox News radio Tuesday, moving to calm concerns over the arms amid major political turmoil in his country. "They are under total custodial controls," Musharraf told the network, citing security measures in place since 2000, according to a transcript of the interview. "We created a strategic p ... more Outside View: Russia ready to leave INF 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 13, 2007 It looks as if Russia has long guessed the American moves to create a missile defense system in Europe and is responding tit-for-tat and even figure-for-figure. On Nov. 6 the Americans happily rejoiced after achieving their long-cherished ambition of hitting two target drones at the same time. The Russian reaction was not slow in coming. Russia is now poised to pull out of two basic int ... more World must help protect vital Mekong river: activists 
Bangkok (AFP) Nov 13, 2007International donors must use their influence and push Southeast Asia's Mekong River Commission to speak out against six potentially devastating dams on the vital waterway, environmental groups said Tuesday. The planned hydropower dams on the Mekong in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia could displace tens of thousands of people and endanger up to 1,300 aquatic species including the rare Mekong gia ... more China now has 18 million more young men than women 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 13, 2007Men of marriageable age now outnumber women by 18 million in China and the sex ratio is set to become more skewed because rural families prefer boys, state press said Tuesday. Sex-selective abortions, a direct result of the nation's one-child policy, have boosted the number of boys born in China in recent years. By 2020 there will be 30 million more men than women aged between 20 and 45 ... more NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do An About-Face 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2007A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming. The team, led by James Morison of the University of Washi ... more
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