Despite their long history and their prominence in the local diet, potato yields of small Andean farmers are generally low. This is largely due to pest and disease-related losses. Intensified potato

According to Bangkok gemologists, hundreds of dangerously radio-active gemstones are circulating in the Asian markets and some have even found their way into finished jewellery. Tests conducted

China continues with the world s most environmentally unsound dam project

The country is to go ahead with a much-delayed plan for a nuclear power plant, said officials of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission ( baec ) in Dhaka. The plan has been in the pipeline

A Kuwait-funded irrigation project in northwest China's Ningxia, has been progressing smoothly with first-phase sub projects to start trial operation next month. The whole project, China's biggest

Safe disposal of hazardous hospital wastes were the topic of discussion at a meeting in Delhi