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Agricultural Bank of China to be stock-holding company: report
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 24, 2008Agricultural Bank of China will relaunch as a stock-holding company before the Lunar New Year on January 26, bringing it a step closer to an eventual stock market listing, state media said Wednesday. The lender has finished hiving off its bad loans, the China Business News reported, citing an unnamed source. The bank reported 818 billion yuan (119 billion dollars) in non-performing loans at ... more Court says China firm in milk scare files for bankruptcy
Beijing (AFP) Dec 24, 2008The Chinese firm at the centre of a nationwide tainted milk crisis that sickened nearly 300,000 children and killed six has filed for bankruptcy, a judge said on Wednesday. A bankruptcy judge in the city of Shijiazhuang, where the milk manufacturer Sanlu Group is based, told AFP the court accepted the bankruptcy filing for consideration last week. "We accepted the bankruptcy application. ... more ADB lends 200 mln dlrs to China for river basin pollution project 
Manila (AFP) Dec 23, 2008The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Tuesday it would lend 200 million dollars to China for a project to reduce pollution in the country's third largest river basin. The loan will go to clean up the Songhua River basin, improving the water supply and treatment of waste water and solid waste, the ADB said in a statement from its headquarters in Manila. The project will improve the health ... more 'Global land grab' causing alarm among NGOs
Madrid (AFP) Dec 23, 2008The global food and financial crises have combined to create a new form of colonialism in which countries short of resources and corporations desperate for profits are buying up arable land in emerging nations, NGOs say. The non-governmental organisations have expressed concern at this "global land grab," which they say is threatening the survival of rural livelihoods in some parts of the wo ... more Israel says 'Peace Canal' could benefit all Mideast 
Shuneh, Jordan (AFP) Dec 22, 2008A planned 4.5 billion dollars "Peace Canal" to bring water from the Red Sea to the fast evaporating Dead Sea could benefit the entire Middle East, an Israeli minister said in Jordan on Monday. "I think that all the region will benefit from the project," Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on water on the shore of the Dead ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Dec 19, 2008EU fisheries ministers reached agreement Friday on 2009 fish quotas, with a big increase in permitted catches of cod in the North Sea but cuts elsewhere. They also agreed to tackle the problem of fish that are thrown back and left to die because they are too small, the wrong species or because fishermen do not have a quota to bring them back to market. Environmental groups have long ... more Liberty Media's QVC Unveils Large Solar Project 
Rocky Mount NC (SPX) Dec 22, 2008Liberty Media's QVC, working with SunPower, has unveiled the installation of a 1-megawatt solar electric power farm at the QVC Rocky Mount distribution center based in Rocky Mount, NC. The project stands as one of the state's largest renewable energy initiatives to date and furthers Liberty and QVC's commitment to conservation and projects with lower environmental impact. The ground ... more New version of mad cow suspected 
London (UPI) Dec 18, 2008 British medical researchers say they're concerned a new human version of mad cow disease has been detected, officials said. While most cases of new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD) in Britain have occurred in people with a genetic profile carried by 42 percent of the population, the BBC reported that a young man with a different genetic profile appears to have the disabling ... more EU ministers meet to start annual haggle over fishing quotas 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 18, 2008European Union fisheries ministers met Thursday to start haggling over fish quotas amid warnings of dwindling stocks and huge waste. In what has become a Brussels tradition, the ministers faced a night of marathon negotiations closely watched by fishermen and environmental groups. One of the main issues facing the ministers concerns discarded catches. Non-governmental organisations ... more Rock Varnish: A Promising Habitat For Martian Bacteria 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 19, 2008As scientists search for life on Mars, they should take a close look at rock varnish, according to a paper in the current issue of the "Journal of Geophysical Research." The paper describes how a research team led by Kimberly R. Kuhlman, of the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, found bacteria associated with rock varnish in an area where the surrounding soils were essentially ... more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Think humans are complex creatures? Consider the lowly soybean, said a Purdue University researcher. When it comes to genetics, the soybean plant is far more intricate than that of a human, said Scott Jackson, a plant genomics and cytogenetics researcher in Purdue's Department of Agronomy. Jackson was among a team of researchers that mapped and sequenced the soybean genome for a project ... more Research The Key To Long-Term Gains For A Smarter Economy 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 18, 2008"Australian farmers' nation-leading productivity growth of 2.8% a year over the last 20 years has been achieved on the back of the groundbreaking technologies and sustainable practices discovered through research and development (R and D)," National Farmers' Federation (NFF) CEO Ben Fargher said as he welcomed a new Rural Research Development Corporations' Report. "As the Measuring ... more Purdue Study Suggests Warmer Temperatures Could Lead To A Boom In Corn Pests 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Climate change could provide the warmer weather pests prefer, leading to an increase in populations that feed on corn and other crops, according to a new study. Warmer growing season temperatures and milder winters could allow some of these insects to expand their territory and produce an extra generation of offspring each year, said Noah Diffenbaugh, the Purdue University associate ... more Stanford Researchers Predict Heat Waves And Crop Losses In California 
Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Global warming will likely put enormous strain on California's water supply and energy systems and have a devastating impact on certain crops. Stanford researchers predict this outcome based on projections from two different emission scenarios. One assumes a continuing moderate increase in greenhouse gas emissions until 2100; the other assumes emissions would increase until mid-century and ... more Salt Water Irrigation: Study Shows It Works 
Provo UT (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Take an arid field riddled with salty soil. Irrigate it with salty water. Plant a salt-tolerant grass along with a salt-sucking companion plant and what do you get? If you're a Brigham Young University research team, you raise a crop that successfully replaces corn as cattle feed. Their research highlights the promise of using salty water to turn the salty soil in the world's arid regions ... more
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