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Building codes, quake locations key to Chile-Haiti tollsWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2010 A combination of geography, comparative wealth and disaster readiness is why Chile's massive earthquake won't come close to Haiti's calamitous toll even though it was much stronger, experts say. Saturday's 8.8-magnitude quake, the seventh most powerful on record, struck central Chile some 325 kilometers (200 miles) south of the capital Santiago and 115 kilometers north-northeast of the second city of Concepcion. So far the death toll is over 700 and rising, although President Michelle Bachelet i ... read more |
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Ulan Bator (AFP) Feb 25, 2010Officials in Mongolia have declared more than half of the impoverished country a disaster area due to harsh winter weather, as the UN on Thursday launched a programme to help struggling nomads. About 2.5 million livestock had perished nationwide as of Monday, the government's State Emergency Commission reported this week, after weeks of persistent snow and temperatures below minus 50 Celsius ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) March 1, 2010After three months in legal limbo in Japan, Chinese rights campaigner Feng Zhenghu says he is not wasting any more time. Feng was forced to camp out near an immigration counter at Tokyo's Narita airport after the Chinese government refused on several occasions to let him come home, in a case reminiscent of the Tom Hanks film "The Terminal". In the two weeks since his ordeal ended, he has ... more  
La Paz, Bolivia (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 State meddling is holding back Bolivia's hydrocarbons industry, which showed early promise of growth but more recently has seen production fall, findings published Thursday indicated. Bolivia Oil and Gas Report Q1 2010, published by the Irish Research and Markets, showed that regional oil use in Latin America had gone from 6.93 million barrels a day in 2001 to 7.74 million barrels a day ... more |
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China walks policy tight-rope ahead of congressBeijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2010 The high command of China's communist leadership emerged enhanced from the global economic crisis, unencumbered by the political constraints in recession-plagued Western democracies. But while the Chinese model of top-down central planning can take credit for maintaining blistering rates of economic growth, analysts warn that leaders are walking a policy tight-rope as they head into the annual session of parliament. "In the crisis, Beijing was able to very quickly pump enormous fiscal and moneta ... read more |
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