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BREAKING NEWS Elephant latest casualty in Indian heat wave after 430 people die HYDERABAD, India (AFP) May 28, 2003 A wild elephant has become the latest casualty of a searing heat wave which has already claimed 430 human lives in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, officials said Wednesday. Four die as heat wave sweeps Bangladesh DHAKA (AFP) May 28, 2003 At least four people have died over the past two days in Bangladesh in a heat wave that has swept South Asia, newspaper reports said Wednesday. China raids wildlife markets, seizes thousands of animals in SARS fight BEIJING (AFP) May 28, 2003 Authorities have raided wildlife markets and ports of entry in southern China's Guangdong province, seizing thousands of mammals, birds, snakes and other animals to stamp out the source of SARS, state press said Wednesday. |
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PNG sending food to sinking atolls, plans to move people to higher ground AUCKLAND (AFP) May 28, 2003 Papua New Guinea (PNG) is trying to convince two small communities of Polynesians that they have to quit their atoll homes as they become overwhelmed by the Pacific Ocean. Green fudge on G8 menu PARIS (AFP) May 28, 2003 The Group of Eight (G8) traditionally treat the environment as a "consensus issue" -- in plain English, an easy fudge -- and the instinct for unity will be especially strong at this year's summit. Fast growing wood plantations need curbs, warn environmentalists GENEVA (AFP) May 27, 2003 Rapidly expanding industrial fast-wood plantations are not the best economic or environmental solution to meet the world's growing demand for paper, a new report said on Tuesday. Asia's economy battling SARS hangover as Canada suffers setback BEIJING (AFP) May 27, 2003 Asia reported just 22 new SARS cases Tuesday, but the epidemic continued to cast a shadow over the region's economy and a resurgence of the virus in Canada saw the country put back on the black list of SARS-hit areas. Death toll from heatwave in southern India reaches 430 HYDERABAD, India (AFP) May 27, 2003 At least 430 people have died from sunstroke and heat exhaustion in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the past eleven days, officials said Tuesday. |
China's Guangdong province to ban eating, trading and raising of wildlife BEIJING (AFP) May 27, 2003 China's southern Guangdong province, which has traced SARS to civet cats, has decided to ban the consumption and trading of wild animals in an effort to stop the spread of the disease, officials said Tuesday. Death toll from heatwave in southern India reaches 370 HYDERABAD, India (AFP) May 27, 2003 At least 370 people have died due to sunstroke and heat exhaustion in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the past ten days, officials said Tuesday. China's Guangdong province bans eating, trading and raising of wildlife BEIJING (AFP) May 27, 2003 China's southern Guangdong province, which has traced SARS to civet cats, has banned the consumption, trading, raising and use of wild animals in an effort to stop the spread of the disease, state media said Tuesday. Dust storm kills 19 in India LUCKNOW, India (AFP) May 27, 2003 A severe dust storm in northern India has killed 19 people, including seven children, and injured scores of others, an official said Tuesday. Haze back over Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra islands as dry season begins JAKARTA (AFP) May 27, 2003 Smoke haze from burning vegetation is again hitting parts of the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo, officials said Tuesday. |
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