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Chinese dairy firms to pay out millions to milk victims: state media
Beijing (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Twenty-two Chinese dairy firms will pay 160 million dollars into a compensation fund for families of babies that died or fell ill after drinking tainted milk, state media said Monday. Families of children who died after being given the adulterated formula will each receive 200,000 yuan (29,000 dollars) from the fund, the China Daily newspaper reported. Parents of infants who were hospita ... more Answers To Huge Wind-Farm Problems Are Blowin' In The Wind 
Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 30, 2008While harnessing more energy from the wind could help satisfy growing demands for electricity and reduce emissions of global-warming gases, turbulence from proposed wind farms could adversely affect the growth of crops in the surrounding countryside. Solutions to this, and other problems presented by wind farms - containing huge wind turbines, each standing taller than a 60-story building ... more 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 |
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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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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 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 Mission Operations Readiness Review For NPOESS Prep Project Completed 
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
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