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Illegal land grabs in China threatening food supplies: minister
Beijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2007Illegal land grabs are threatening food supplies in China as scarce farming land is destroyed to make way for industrial and urban development, a minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday. "The illegal acquisition of arable land (for purposes other than agriculture) has endangered food safety and social stability," Land and Resources Minister Xu Shaoshi said, according to the China Daily. ... more Anglican chief warns greed could wreck the Earth 
London (AFP) Dec 25, 2007The leader of the world's Anglicans slammed "human greed" in his Christmas sermon, saying it threatened the Earth's fragile environmental balance. Doctor Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, told worshippers at Canterbury Cathedral in south-east England, that humanity needed to protect the world created by God. People should treat each other and nature with "reverence", the Chur ... more Old TVs bad landfill reception 
Baltimore (UPI) Dec 24, 2007 When U.S. broadcasters switch to digital transmissions, millions of viewers will likely discard analog televisions creating a potential environmental disaster. Television sets contain toxic substances like lead, mercury and cadmium, and when televisions are sent to landfills or shipped to other countries for dismantling, those substances are sent with them, the Baltimore Sun reported./ ... more China's Agricultural Bank ready for bailout: officials 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2007Debt-laden Agricultural Bank of China is ready for its long awaited restructuring, the nation's chief central banker said Tuesday, a bailout expected to cost the Chinese tax payer 40 billion dollars. People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan made the remarks at a financial forum in the Chinese capital, saying reform of the weakest of the nation's big four state commercial lenders would ... more Sunk swampland recovering post-Katrina 
New Orleans (UPI) Dec 24, 2007 Many of the hundreds of acres of swampland destroyed by Hurricane Katrina will take decades to recover, and some may never be the same. In the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area south of U.S. 90, the hurricane passed through swampland, destroying vegetation and carving out a 200-acre depression that now, filled with water, has unofficially been dubbed Lake Katrina, the New Orleans Tim ... more |
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Galle, Sri Lanka (AFP) Dec 25, 2007Graft and renewed fighting has blocked relief to Sri Lanka's tsunami survivors with less than a fifth of money pledged properly accounted for three years later, according to watchdogs. Sri Lanka's government claims success in rebuilding homes destroyed by the disaster, but international agencies say big problems remain. Huge amounts of foreign cash that poured in did not reach its intended d ... more SmartGrow uses hair to grow food 
Florida City, Fla. (UPI) Dec 23, 2007 A new product marketed as SmartGrow uses human hair imported from China and India to help in people with their horticultural efforts. Tropical Research and Education Center researchers at the University of Florida said the new horticultural product has been proven to be a useful alternative to herbicides, but still surprises most people who learn about it, The Miami Herald reported Sund ... more US Midwest digs out of storm which killed 11 
Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2007Power was back on for most of the greater Chicago area Monday after a heavy snow storm blew through the region grounding flights for Christmas holiday travellers and leaving 11 dead in road accidents, according to reports. But new warnings were out for areas along the shores of the eastern Great Lakes region in both the United States and Canada as the winter storms were expected to dump load ... more Japan plans world's fastest maglev train: firm 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 26, 2007A Japanese rail operator said Wednesday it plans to introduce the world's fastest train in the next two decades, a next-generation maglev built at a cost of 45 billion dollars. "Maglev," or magnetically levitated, trains travel above ground through an electromagnetic pull. The only maglev train now in commercial operation is in Shanghai. Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Central) plans to bu ... more Russia FM in Libya for nuclear talks 
Tripoli (AFP) Dec 23, 2007Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks in Libya on Sunday as the longtime pariah state consolidated its return to the international fold. Lavrov had been expected to offer Russian help for Libya's plans to develop a civil nuclear power programme, barely four years after it renounced efforts to develop a non-conventional arsenal in a move that launched its rapprochement with the We ... more |
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Hanoi (AFP) Dec 25, 2007Energy-hungry Vietnam is planning to build a two-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Mekong river of Laos and to construct several other large hydropower projects in the neighbouring country. Vietnam's main energy company expects to wrap up a feasibility study by April for a dam near Luang Prabang, the former Lao royal capital, that would dwarf existing dams in the landlocked country, state media ... more Japan, Kazakh firms to tie-up in nuclear fuel processing: official 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 26, 2007Japan's Kansai Electric Power Co. and trading house Sumitomo Corp. will tie up with Kazakhstan's state-run energy company in uranium processing for nuclear power generation, an official said Wednesday. The move is part of a wider effort by Asia's largest economy to forge closer ties with uranium-rich Kazakhstan so as to reduce its dependence on increasingly expensive Middle East crude oil. ... more Mexico planted 250 million trees in 2007: Calderon 
Mexico City (AFP) Dec 23, 2007President Felipe Calderon on Sunday said Mexico in 2007 planted nearly 250 million trees, one fourth of the world total the UN Environment Program (UNEP) had set to combat climate change. "We're reaching the goal we set for ourselves that seemed so difficult to reach, of planting 250 million trees in Mexico," Calderon told reporters as he planted a pine tree in the grounds of his official Lo ... more Chinese farmers offered subsidised TVs, mobile phones: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2007Chinese farmers will be given a 13-percent discount on televisions, mobile phones and other electrical appliances under a new subsidy scheme to boost rural spending, state press reported Monday. A pilot program will begin for three of the nation's major agricultural provinces under which the government will offer the subsidy for TVs, mobile phones and fridges, the China Daily reported, citin ... more Taiwan nuclear power plant could run for extra 20 years: regulator 
Taipei (AFP) Dec 24, 2007Taiwan's nuclear power policy regulator said Monday that the island's first nuclear power plant could keep running for another 20 years after its operation licence expires in 2017. "The safety evaluation of the first nuclear power plant has been completed," Su Hsien-chang, head of the Cabinet-level Atomic Energy Council, told reporters. "That is to say, the plant could operate for anoth ... more
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