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Taiwan home-grown food firms get boost after China scandal
Hsinpu, Taiwan (AFP) Dec 28, 2008Scandals surrounding poisoned Chinese foods have taken a heavy toll on Taiwan's bakeries and makers of dairy products in recent months, but could provide a long-term boost for local food makers. Liu Li-chien, who produces dried persimmons according to a 150-year tradition, thought his days in business were numbered when the island lifted restrictions on Chinese imports. In 2004, to confo ... more Canal would link Dead Sea to Red Sea 
Amman, Jordan (UPI) Dec 26, 2008 A $4.4 billion canal that would stretch from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea would provide an abundance of power and fresh water, Jordanian officials say. The proposed canal also would keep the Dead Sea from drying up and disappearing within 50 years, said Adnan Zoubi, a spokesman for the Jordanian water ministry. The plan calls for a 110-mile long canal to channel several million to ... more Chinese dairy firms agree to pay compensation for melamine victims: report 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 27, 2008Chinese dairy firms whose products contained the toxic chemical melamine have agreed to pay compensation to the families of babies that died or fell ill from tainted milk, state media said Saturday. The 22 companies will pay a lump sum to victims of the melamine scandal, which has shocked China since it erupted in September and has left six babies dead while sickening nearly 300,000, the Xin ... more Ex-head of China milk-powder firm could face death penalty: lawyer 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 26, 2008The former head of the Chinese firm at the centre of the tainted milk scandal, who will stand trial next week, could face the death penalty if convicted, a lawyer said Friday. The trial of Tian Wenhua, previously the chairwoman of Sanlu Group, will open Wednesday at a court in Sanlu's home city, Shijiazhuang in north China's Hebei province, an official with a provincial court told AFP. H ... more New Satellite Data Reveal Impact Of Olympic Pollution Controls 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 26, 2008Chinese government regulators had clearer skies and easier breathing in mind in the summer of 2008 when they temporarily shuttered some factories and banished many cars in a pre-Olympic sprint to clean up Beijing's air. And that's what they got. They were not necessarily planning for something else: an unprecedented experiment using satellites to measure the impact of air pollution control ... more |
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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 Germany may cancel funding for Turkish dam 
Berlin (AFP) Dec 22, 2008Germany has suspended financing for the construction of the Ilisu dam in Turkey due to environmental and social concerns over the massive project, the government said Monday. "The contracts must be annulled if the protection of human beings, the environment and culture in the region is not ensured," a spokesman for the overseas development ministry told reporters. Germany, Austria and ... more Japanese seek to scrap Google's Street View 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 19, 2008A group of Japanese journalists, professors and lawyers demanded Friday that the US Internet search giant Google scrap its "Street View" service in Japan, saying it violates people's privacy. Google launched Street View in the United States last year, providing pictures of panoramic all-around street-level views at locations on its online maps. The service was expanded to 12 major cities ... more |
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Suitland MD (SPX) Dec 19, 2008A comprehensive Mission Operations Readiness (MOR) review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) was successfully completed last month. The largest review of the overall NPOESS configuration to date, the MOR focused specifically on the NPP's operational readiness and progress to launch. Government customers representing ... more Contraction Of Boundary Between The Earth's Ionosphere And Space 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2008Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. These observations were made by the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI) instrument suite, which was launched aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) ... 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 Jason-2 Satellite Data Now Available To Scientists 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2008NOAA announced that scientists around the world now have access to valuable data from a new international satellite, the Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission. This information allows them to closely watch the rate of global sea-level rise and monitor changing ocean features around tropical cyclones. Jason-2/OSTM, launched June 20, 2008, is a joint effort between NOAA, the National ... more
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