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China imposes media ban over new milk scandal: watchdogHong Kong (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 Chinese officials have banned independent reporting on the latest toxic food scandal involving melamine, a chemical blamed for the deaths of six babies in 2008, a press watchdog said Thursday. The International Federation of Journalists, citing local sources, said censors in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong had ordered that media outlets "must only use information formally released by the authorities". There was no immediate comment from authorities in Guangdong, which borders Hong Ko ... read more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2010The development of a new series of weather and environmental monitoring satellites has marked a significant milestone with the delivery and the beginning of spacecraft integration efforts for a key science instrument. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) will be one of five instruments to fly on the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS ... more  
Sao Paulo (AFP) Jan 29, 2010Brazil's Sao Paulo state - South America's most important economic region - is experiencing its wettest summer in 63 years, with flooding and landslides killing at least 69 people, officials said Friday. Most of the fatalities, which have climbed steadily since December 1, have occurred in Sao Paulo city, where several neighborhoods and roads are underwater and some ramshackle dwellings ha ... more  
Niamey (AFP) Jan 29, 2010Some 2.7 million people in the largely arid west African country of Niger face hunger because of inadequate rain for their crops, an official said Friday. "The inquiry shows that about 20 percent of the population is in a vulnerable situation, or 2.7 million people," Hamani Harouna, an official with the government's early warning system, told public media. To avoid a famine, the authorit ... more |
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Protests in eastern India over soaring food pricesPatna (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 Demonstrators in poverty-hit eastern India burnt tyres and blocked roads on Thursday to protest against sky-rocketing food prices, piling pressure on authorities to crack down on inflation. Police in Bihar state rounded up scores of demonstrators including protest leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, head of the main state opposition party Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and a prominent figure nationally. "This is the beginning of the battle against rising prices," Yadav told supporters in the state capital Pat ... read more |
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