Industry

 Indiscriminate slaughter of fowl, dogs, cats in S Korea

South Korea has begun killing hundreds of fowl, and dogs, cats and pigs in an effort to contain the spread of the deadly h5n1 strain of bird flu. The move came after the country confirmed its

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
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Animal Diseases, Poultry, Influenza, South Korea
India

 International group to secure energy for future

an international consortium of countries, including India, has signed an agreement on November 21, 2006, to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor to meet the future energy need of the world

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
Ritu Gupta
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Nuclear Power, Fusion, International Cooperation, China, South Korea, Russia, India, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

 Just talk, no promises at Asia Europe meet

leaders from 25 European and 13 Asian nations have adopted a declaration to fight global warming, among other things, at the sixth Asia-Europe Meeting Summit held at Helsinki on September 10-11,

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Ritu Gupta
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Environment Economics, Air Pollution Control, Global Warming, Greenpeace, Asia, China, South Korea, Europe, Finland, India
Environment

 Scientists identify polymer that stores hydrogen

scientists have identified a polymer with a very large capacity for storing hydrogen that could be exploited in fuel cells. After a series of computer simulations, Jisoon Ihm and colleagues at the

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
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Energy Technology, Hydrogen Energy, Fuel Cell, South Korea
Agriculture

 Snipptes

• South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is standing trial on charges of fraud and embezzlement for his team's research on stem cells, has resumed work on animal cloning. He has opened a

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
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Waterborne diseases, Floods, Cyclones, Storms, Genetic Cloning, Research, Scientists, Ethiopia, China, South Korea, Rainfall
Energy

 Students' organisation says no to gas pipeline in northeast

Northeast Students' Organisation (NESO) has launched a campaign among the tribal communities of northeastern states against the proposed tri-nation Indo-Myanmar gas pipeline that will run from Sittwe

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Biswendu Bhattacharjee
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Environment, North East, Tribals, Energy, Ecology, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Korea, India, Assam, Mizoram, Tripura, Oil Exploration
Industry

 We aren t that bad

Posco

Publication Date: 
29/04/2006
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Iron And Steel Industry, POSCO, South Korea, Orissa (Odisha), Jagatsinghpur (D)
Industry

 Snippets

• As many as 57 species of fish in Haryana have disappeared over the past four decades as a result of pollution and high siltation of rivers, a study found.

• UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination strongly reprimanded the Botswana government over eviction of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen.

Publication Date: 
14/04/2006
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River Pollution, Maize, Mad Cow Disease, GM Crops, Fish, Health Effects, UN, South Korea, Brazil, Haryana, European Union (EU)
Water Pollution

 Patent effect

Of bogus stem cell research

Publication Date: 
27/02/2006
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Science, Technology, Research, Patents, South Korea
India

 Orange exposure

In a landmark judgement, the Seoul High Court has ordered two us -based chemical firms to pay over us $63 million as compensation to South Korea's Vietnam war veterans. The veterans, recruited by

Publication Date: 
27/02/2006
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Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Compensation, Legislation, South Korea, United States Of America (US)

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