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Asia nations hurting as price of rice soars
Hong Kong (AFP) March 9, 2008The soaring price of rice has triggered a supply and demand crunch that is hurting some of Asia's neediest nations, forcing them to spend more on imports, industry experts and officials say. For the likes of Thailand and Vietnam, the world's two biggest exporters of the grain, the rising demand is a money-spinner with rice now selling at more than 500 dollars a tonne in Bangkok and nearly as ... more Climate change a new factor in global tensions: EU 
Brussels (AFP) March 7, 2008The risks of climate change have turned from a threat to reality impacting the conflict in Darfur, migration from flood-prone Bangladesh and hopes for stability in the Middle East, according to a new EU report. From Africa to Asia, and from pole to pole, climate change has become "a threat multiplier which exacerbates existing trends, tensions and instability," warns the seven-page report on ... more Team to sequence giant panda's genome: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 7, 2008Scientists from China and across the world are to sequence the genome of the giant panda to try to stop one of the world's most endangered species from being wiped out, state media reported Friday. They hope the project will help be able to control diseases that affect the animal and help understand its famously low level of sexual activity, Xinhua news agency said. "(This is) the first ... more US says contaminated blood-thinner came from China 
Washington (AFP) March 6, 2008Batches of the recalled blood thinner heparin, which contained an unidentified contaminant and has been linked to 19 deaths, have ingredients that came from China, the US government said Thursday. The federal Food and Drug Administration, which added that Germany has announced its own recall of heparin due to allergic reactions, has yet to prove that the contaminant was the cause of ... more Britain braced for heavy storm 
London (AFP) March 9, 2008Britain was braced for a heavy storm on Sunday night with forecasters warning of a "potent cocktail" of strong winds, rain and hail across the country. The Meteorological Office put severe weather warnings in place for all of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, though south Wales and southern England were expected to be worst hit. "There will be a potent cocktail of strong winds, wave a ... more |
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College Park MD (SPX) Mar 10, 2008In a provocative article in this week's Science Magazine, the University of Maryland's Ben Shneiderman, one of the world's leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interaction, says it's time for the laboratory research that has defined science for the last 400 years to make room for a revolutionary new method of scientific discovery. He calls it Science 2.0., and it combines ... more China's parliament must serve Communist Party: official 
Beijing (AFP) March 8, 2008China's top parliamentarian told the ongoing National People's Congress Saturday that it must serve the leadership of the ruling Communist Party and support its policies and government postings. In his annual work report given at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing, parliamentary head Wu Bangguo also said he would work to expand "socialist democracy" and the congress' right to ... more White killer whale sighted in Aleutians 
Anchorage (UPI) Mar 07, 2008Scientists studying fish stocks off Alaska got a glimpse of the "icing on the cake" -- a rare white killer whale. The orca was spotted with its pod about 2 miles off the Kanaga Volcano in the Aleutian chain on Feb. 23, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported. The NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson was in the area to study stocks of pollock near Steller sea lion haul ... more Leicester Scientists Seek To Disarm TB's Molecular Weapon 
Leicester, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Scientists at the University of Leicester are claiming a new advance in their fight against the resurgence of TB in Britain. They have isolated the molecular 'weapons' of the bacterium and are now assessing ways to make the bacterium impotent. Scientists in the University's Department of Biochemistry are focusing on two proteins in the TB bacterium which, it is thought, allows it to thrive ... more Brazilian protesters destroy GM crops: group 
Sao Paulo (AFP) March 7, 2008Around 300 women rural residents in Brazil burst into a property owned by the US company Monsanto and destroyed a plant nursery and crops containing genetically modified corn, their organization said. The women were protesting what they saw as environmental damage by the crops. They trashed the plants within 30 minutes and left before police arrived at the site in the southern state of ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) March 8, 2008India's foreign minister Saturday ruled out early polls after new threats by the government's communist allies to withdraw their support if the ruling party concludes a nuclear pact with Washington. Describing the leftist bloc's warning as a "known position," Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said: "I do not visualise that anybody is thinking of early elections. "None of the coalition ... more Quasicrystal Mystery Unraveled With Computer Simulation 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 10, 2008The method to the madness of quasicrystals has been a mystery to scientists. Quasicrystals are solids whose atoms aren't arranged in a repeating pattern, as they are in ordinary crystals. Yet they form intricate patterns that are technologically useful. A computer simulation performed by University of Michigan scientists has given new insights into how this unique class of solids forms. ... more Ontario to add more nuclear muscle to energy mix 
Ottawa (AFP) March 7, 2008Canada's Ontario province announced Friday plans to build its first new nuclear reactor in decades to meet its burgeoning energy needs and reduce its carbon emissions. Four companies - France's Areva, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), US-Japanese partnership GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy and US-based Westinghouse Electric Company - have been shortlisted and will be invited to bid on the ... more When Happiness Is Having Multiple Pipelines 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2008Back in early 1990s, in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Western companies for the first time had the possibility of exploiting Caspian energy, sharp-eyed observers inside the Beltway could spot a bumper sticker proclaiming, "Happiness is multiple pipelines." The slogan referred to Washington's preference for Caspian energy exports to flow westward via a skein ... more Uzbeks And South Korea Eye Natural Gas Deals 
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2008While Russia's Gazprom dominates Central Asian natural gas exports through its pipeline monopoly, the leaders of the "stans" are unhappy about the arrangement, as Gazprom buys cheap and sells dear to European consumers. Seeking to break the deadlock, Uzbekistan has been investigating alternatives, and on Feb. 25 state-owned Uzbekneftegaz signed an agreement with a South Korean energy consortiu ... more
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