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Researchers ask: Is China the sleeping giant of biotech
Paris (AFP) Jan 7, 2008China's biotech sector accounts for just a sliver of its pharmaceutical industry and operates under the cloud of a massive review of licenses issued under a regulator executed last year for accepting bribes. Even so, experts say, Chinese purveyors of genetically engineered drugs and vaccines -- targeting everything from cancer to Alzheimer's -- are growing at a frenzied pace and are likely t ... more New unrest as government vows 'radical' solution to Naples rubbish crisis 
Naples, Italy (AFP) Jan 8, 2008re> New unrest erupted outside Naples /pre> overnight, the ANSA news agency reported Tuesday, as Italy's centre-left government pledged a speedy, "radical" solution to a Mafia-linked rubbish disposal crisis in the region. A huge fire raged at a dump occupied by protesters who took it over after security forces made a tactical retreat following days of clashes over the site, which authorit ... more Decision on polar bears pushed back 
Anchorage, Alaska (UPI) Jan 7, 2008Environmental groups have threatened to file a lawsuit in Washington if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does not make a decision on polar bears. The service is still discussing whether the polar bears should be added to the threatened list under the Endangered Species Act, the Anchorage Daily News reported Monday. A decision was scheduled to be released this week, but new rese ... more Overgrazing Accelerating Soil Erosion In Northern Mexico 
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 08, 2008Every year in the world an estimated 20 million hectares of arable land are rendered infertile simply owing to water-induced erosion. It is therefore crucial to understand how these processes arise in order better to protect the layer of a few tens of metres of fertile soil essential for plant growth and therefore for sustaining agriculture. In the North of Mexico, about ten years ago IRD ... more China life expectancy rises as medical spending increases: report 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 7, 2008The life expectancy of China's 1.3 billion people is on the rise, thanks partly to increased spending on health care, state media said Monday. China's average life expectancy rose from 71.4 years in 2000 to 73 in 2005, Xinhua news agency said, citing a report issued by the Ministry of Health. Other health indicators have also shown marked improvement in recent years, including the infant ... more |
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Madison WI (SPX) Jan 08, 2008In order to increase productivity, forest practices have become more intense in recent decades. Forest fertilization increased by 800% in the southeastern United States from 1990 to 1999, and the total acreage fertilized in the Southeast exceeds the forest area fertilized in the rest of the world. This has generated concern that intensive forest practices, including fertilization, may negatively ... more Elephants outsmarting humans on Indonesia's Sumatra: report 
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 7, 2008A herd of wild elephants on Indonesia's Sumatra has repeatedly outsmarted efforts to stop them stealing crops, wising up to attempts to chase them off with burning torches, a report said Monday. The head of Way Kambas natural reserve in Lampung province, Hudiono, told the state-run Antara news agency that a herd of 25 to 30 elephants had been nightly roaming out of the reserve to raid crops ... more Australia hits back over pro-Japan whaling video 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 7, 2008Australia's government Monday sharply condemned a popular Internet video claiming its citizens oppose Japanese whaling because of racism, while brutally killing animals such as kangaroos and dingoes. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith criticised the video as he announced that Australia would this week deploy a ship to the Southern Ocean to gather evidence for possible legal action against Japan ... more SKorea says will ban single hull tankers from 2010 
Seoul (AFP) Jan 7, 2008South Korea will close its waterways to single-hulled tankers from 2010, five years earlier than originally planned, following the country's worst oil spill, officials said Monday. South Korea originally planned to phase out visits by the spill-prone vessels by 2015 but the spill last month prompted it to bring forward the ban, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries said. "We hav ... more Iran And Pakistan To Sign Peace Pipeline Deal 
Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2008block> hl2>Iran, Pakistan to sign "peace pipeline" Jan. 25/hl2> Iran's ambassador to Pakistan said Jan. 25 is the date the two sides will sign the so-called peace pipeline, a multibillion-dollar project to send Iranian natural gas to Pakistan. Mashallah Shakeri said Sunday the "gas pipeline project is one of the most important economic projects in the region," Pakistan's Daily Times ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Jan 4, 2008Should a conflict break out across the Taiwan Strait, Taiwanese forces would face a grave shortage of ammunition after just seven days of fighting. Even though China has a much greater stockpile of ammunition than Taiwan, it would also encounter similar problems in a sustained conflict. The PLA Air Force fleet of third generation fighters comprises 281 Su-30s, Su-27 SKs, J-11A/Bs and 64 ... more The Facts Of CFE Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Jan 4, 2008A moratorium on the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe is a result of a decision that Russia should base its relations with the West on a foundation of principle. In simpler terms, Russia has finally decided to get tough in defending its interests. It seems the hope in Moscow is that by taking such drastic measures to address its own security concerns, it will prompt the o ... more Hillary Clinton proposes joint oversight of Pakistan nukes 
Manchester, New Hampshire (AFP) Jan 6, 2008US White House hopeful Hillary Clinton late Saturday said she would propose a joint US-British team to oversee the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal if she is elected president. "So far as we know right now, the nuclear technology is considered secure, but there isn't any guarantee, especially given the political turmoil going on inside Pakistan," Clinton said during a Democratic debate ... more Russia struggles to stay warm in deepening winter freeze 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 5, 2008Russian emergency services struggled to maintain the country's often creaky heating infrastructure on Saturday as temperatures in some of the coldest regions on Earth plunged to bone-chilling levels, officials said. The Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement it was providing emergency help in a village in the Siberian province of Yakutia where a fault in a main heating pipeline ha ... more Two dead as western US lashed by snow, rain: officials 
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 6, 2008Heavy snow and rain pounded the western United States for a third day Sunday as state officials confirmed two fatalities from the storms that have pummeled the region. California was drenched with up to 10 inches (25 cm) of rainfall in some regions as mountain communities in the east of state and neighboring Nevada were blanketed by nearly six feet (two meters) of snow in places, National We ... more
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