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Indonesia's bird flu situation 'grave'
New York (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 Avian influenza is deeply entrenched in Indonesia despite an international containment effort, a U.N. report said Thursday, "The human mortality rate from bird flu in Indonesia is the highest in the world and there will be more human cases if we do not focus more on containing the disease at source in animals," Joseph Domenech, chief veterinary officer of the U.N. Food and Agriculture ... more Thirsty Jordan scrambles to find new water resources 
Amman (AFP) March 20, 2008The desert kingdom of Jordan, one of the 10 most water-impoverished countries in the world, is scrambling to find new resources to meet a chronic shortage of its diminishing "blue gold". Beset by years of drought, the authorities are focusing their energies on two mega projects to develop water resources in a country where 92 percent of the land is desert. They plan to draw water from th ... more Nigeria is suspended from CITES wildlife trade pact 
Abuja (AFP) March 20, 2008Nigeria has been suspended from the International Convention on Trade in Endangered Species for alleged breaches of its provisions, an environment ministry official said Thursday. Fidelis Omeni, who monitors the west African country's adherence to the international pact, said that Nigeria is held to have failed to respect CITES clauses on illegal trade in endangered species. The Nigerian ... more Scientists study test fire in building 
New York (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 U.S. scientists watched carefully last month as firefighters battled a test fire in a seven-story abandoned building in New York. The National Institute of Standards and Technology fire protection engineers set the fire to gain a better understanding of the fast-moving spread of wind-driven flames, smoke and toxic gases through corridors and stairways of burning buildings. The ex ... more Thirty-three hurt in Czech motorway pile-up 
Prague (AFP) March 20, 2008At least 33 people were hurt in a motorway pile-up involving some 115 vehicles in a heavy snowstorm in the Czech Republic on Thursday, emergency services said. They said some 50 kilometres (30 miles) of the country's main highway, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Prague on the road to Brno would be closed for the rest of the day. Around 20,000 people were blocked on the key road ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) March 21, 2008Taiwan's presidential rivals pledged Friday to repair relations with big neighbour China as they stumped across the island in a hectic election-eve scramble for votes. Opposition frontrunner Ma Ying-jeou and ruling party chief Frank Hsieh put the focus back on Beijing after nearly a week bashing China over its military crackdown in Tibet. Hsieh, whose Democratic Progressive Party favours ... more Gene silencing may cut tobacco carcinogens 
Raleigh, N.C. (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 U.S. scientists have discovered the silencing of a specific gene in burley tobacco plants significantly reduces harmful carcinogens in cured tobacco leaves. North Carolina State University researchers said their findings might lead to tobacco products -- especially smokeless ones -- that contain reduced levels of cancer-causing agents. Professor Ralph Dewey and Assistant Professo ... more China builds observatory at South Pole 
Beijing (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 An international team led by China has installed an automated space observatory at Dome Argus, the highest point on the South Pole. The Polar Research Institute of China completed installation work last month on the fully robotic Plateau Observatory on the Antarctic icecap peak, which is 13,428 feet above sea level. Texas A&M astrophysicist Lifan Wang said data from the observato ... more Attacks on Darfur villages were deliberate military strategy: UN 
Geneva (AFP) March 20, 2008Attacks on four villages in West Darfur in January and February by the Sudanese armed forces amounted to a "deliberate" military strategy, the United Nations said Thursday. The attacks resulted in at least 115 deaths, according to a report issued jointly by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN African Union Mission in Darfur. "The scale of destruction of civ ... more Lack of toilets putting millions at risk: UN
Geneva (AFP) March 20, 2008Every day, worldwide, people are falling sick and dying for no better reason than the lack of a good clean toilet, two UN aid agencies said Thursday, underlining a development issue too often overlooked. About two in every five people have no access to a proper toilet, said the World Health Organisation and the UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF), warning that the lack of sanitation is putting 2.6 bi ... more |
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Chengdu, China (AFP) March 20, 2008Chinese travel companies specialising in tours to Tibet say they expect the security lockdown of the Himalayan region to keep foreign travellers out for up to three months. Chinese tourism authorities have ordered travel companies not to apply for permits for people wishing to travel to Tibet, and many foreigners have been diverted elsewhere or had their payments refunded, travel agents told ... more Pro-Tibet groups dispute China's version of Sichuan violence
Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2008Pro-Tibet groups reacted with incredulity on Friday to Chinese reports that police had merely wounded four people after opening fire "in self-defence" during unrest in southwestern Sichuan province. "At this point any statement the Chinese government puts out has virtually no credibility," said Lhadon Tethong from Students for a Free Tibet, based in Dharamsala, India. "We are seeing phot ... more 'Most wanted' list out as China ups pressure over Tibet
Beijing (AFP) March 21, 2008China stepped up its pressure on Tibetan protesters on Friday, releasing photos of wanted suspects who were captured on film in the worst rioting against Chinese rule in Tibet in nearly 20 years. But with security forces having been poured into Tibet and other Tibetan-populated areas of China, rights groups and activists warned of mass arrests and the possible torture of those taken into cus ... more US House Speaker slams Chinese 'oppression' in Tibet 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 21, 2008US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Chinese "oppression" in Tibet on Thursday as thousands of Tibetan exiles cheered her arrival in this Indian hill town to meet the Dalai Lama. In a trip that has angered Chinese officials, she flew into Dharamshala, seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile, to pay the first high-level call on the spiritual icon after anti-Chinese riots erupted in Tibet nea ... more Behind the chants, Tibet monks bristle at China 
Kumbum Monastery, China (AFP) March 21, 2008Nestled on a hillside not far from where the Dalai Lama was born, the Kumbum monastery, with its chanting monks, Tibetan pilgrims and burning incense, appears a picture of Buddhist harmony. It is an image that China's atheist Communist rulers are keen to promote as proof of the religious freedom they say is granted to minority groups. But monks here simmer with resentment at Chinese cont ... more
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