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 Kaohsiung, Taiwan (AFP) Aug 31, 2009 
The Dalai Lama headed for typhoon hit areas of southern Taiwan Monday on the first full day of a tour that China has warned will hurt improving ties with the island. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader headed straight for Hsiaolin, a village where at least 424 people died in Typhoon Morakot, cancelling a press conference that local officials feared could have angered Beijing. ... read more 
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 31, 2009Nepal's prime minister opened the first climate change conference of Himalayan nations on Monday with a warning about the dangers of melting glaciers, floods and violent storms for the region. With 1.3 billion people dependent on the water that flows down from the melting Himalayan glaciers, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said cross-border cooperation was essential in tackling the impact ... more
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Hsiaolin, Taiwan (AFP) Aug 31, 2009The Dalai Lama praised Taiwan's democracy Monday on the first full day of a tour that China has warned will hurt improving ties with the island. While members of the Beijing-friendly ruling elite said they had no plans to meet Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, he urged Taiwan to cherish its democracy, which is often contrasted with the mainland's stern one-party rule. "You enjoy democracy ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 31, 2009 Cairn India Ltd. began production Saturday at Mangala in the Rajasthan region's Barmer field, one of the biggest onshore oil discoveries in India in more than 20 years. "The crude oil production from Barmer Field is a significant step towards achieving energy security for our country," Petroleum Minister Murli Deora said Saturday at the inauguration. India, Asia's third-largest ... more  
Panaji, India (AFP) Aug 30, 2009The head of India's state-run space agency on Sunday hailed the country's first moon mission a success, despite losing contact with the spacecraft. "The mission was a great success," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters in the state capital of Goa, Panaji, where a conference on low-budget space missions opens this week. Nair, who sai ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 29, 2009India faces a "severe" drought but the country's ample food grain stock will ensure no one goes hungry, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. Monsoon rains, the lifeline for farms that support more that half of India's 1.1 billion population, have been scant and about 40 percent of India's districts have declared a drought. "No one has control over drought. It's a severe ... more 
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 28, 2009South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains. Experts say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and with months to go before a key summit in Copenhagen, mountain nations are hoping to highlight the myriad of problems facing ... more 
Bhattegaun, Nepal (AFP) Aug 28, 2009Three years ago Naina Shahi's husband left their small village in rural Nepal to seek work in neighbouring India, leaving her to bring up their three children alone. The dry winters and unpredictable monsoons Nepal has experienced in recent years had hit crop production on the couple's land plot in the foothills of the Himalayas, forcing them to look for other ways to feed their family. ... more |
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