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Slum problem as Philippines braces for more floodsManila (AFP) June 25, 2010 Hundreds of thousands of slum dwellers remain living in flood-prone areas of the Philippine capital as the rainy season builds despite pledges to move them after a barrage of deadly storms last year. A month into the tropical nation's annual rainy season, entire communities that were hit hard by the disasters that killed about 1,000 people are vigorously resisting government efforts to move them to safer places. At the Arenda estate, a 200-hectare (494-acre) swamp in eastern Manila, the holdouts ... read more |
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Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2010Germany's second Earth observation satellite, TanDEM-X, was launched successfully on 21 June 2010 at 04:14 Central European Summer Time (CEST, at 08:14 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Atop a Russian Dnepr rocket, the satellite, weighing more than 1.3 tons and five metres in length, started its journey into orbit. At 4.45 CEST first signal was received via Troll grou ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2010NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission. The spacecraft will fly in February 2013 aboard a Taurus XL 3110 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The total cost of the OCO-2 launch services is approximately $70 million. The estimated cost includes the task ordered launch service for a Taurus ... more  
Madison WI (SPX) Jun 23, 2010Despite sophisticated nutrient management of potato crops, quality and yield still see wide variability. Although nutrients are already well understood, the influence of other environmental factors remains understudied. A research team from Michigan State University conducted a study to determine how the chemical and physical properties of soil, along with the light waves the plant absorbs ... more |
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AgBank IPO draws 5.45 billion US dollars before sale startsHong Kong (AFP) June 23, 2010 Heavyweight investors, including Qatar's investment fund, have stumped up 5.45 billion US dollars for the Agricultural Bank of China IPO even before the share sale officially starts. The offering, to begin Thursday, is on track to become the world's biggest, with pre-sale estimates soaring as high as 28 billion US dollars, outpacing the 22-billion-dollar offering by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in 2006. Dutch financial-services firm Rabobank will write a cheque for 250 million US dol ... read more |
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