South Korea

Even as India is trying to build a firewall to block out the bird flu virus, the first likely case of the deadly pathogen s human to human transmission has surfaced in Vietnam. Two siblings in Hanoi are suspected to have contracted the disease from their

Publication Date:

28/02/2004

Author(s): T V Jayan

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Poultry, Health Effects, Trade, Birds, Research, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, India

Economy

Farmers see red, again

A free trade agreement (fta) between Chile and South Korea is making farmers in the latter country extremely restive. The South Korean national assembly's decision to debate its ratification brought

Publication Date:

30/01/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

12

Issue:

20040131

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Crops, Trade, Farmers, South Korea, Chile

Agriculture

Double whammy

Fresh outbreak of SARS, avian flu

Publication Date:

30/01/2004

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Respiratory Diseases, Health Care, Medical Research, Epidemics, WHO, China, South Korea

India

Microsoft opens windows, just a crack

Company to reveal source code, but there is a catch

Publication Date:

14/02/2003

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Electronics Industry, Technology, Information, China, Philippines, South Korea, Finland, France, Germany, United States Of America (US), India, Computers

India

Down in the doldrums

The state of India's science research

Publication Date:

30/12/2002

Author(s): T V Jayan

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20021231

pp:

0

Tags:

Research, Information, Education, China, South Korea, Brazil, India

Water Resources

US gets tough

The us and South Korea are goading North Korea into complying with a provision of a 1994 nuclear agreement which calls for inspections to determine the total weapons-grade material Pyongyang

Publication Date:

14/10/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, North Korea, South Korea, United States Of America (US)