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Bangladesh tries to save coral island from tourism boomDhaka (AFP) Dec 29, 2009 Bangladesh has ordered a building freeze on its lone coral island in a bid to save its wildlife and natural beauty from a boom in construction fuelled by tourism, its environment minister said Tuesday. Hasan Mahmud told AFP his government had declared the eight square kilometre (three square mile) St Martin's island an ecologically critical area and had banned new buildings there. "We ha ... read more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Dec 27, 2009Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama left for India on Sunday for talks with his counterpart Manmohan Singh aimed at strengthening security and economic cooperation. Hatoyama will also meet Rajendra Pachauri, head of a Nobel-winning UN panel of climate scientists, to discuss how to generate momentum on tackling global warming after the Copenhagen climate accord failed to reach binding targ ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 24, 2009India announced plans Thursday to shift control of a major shipyard to the military to boost naval warship production amid complaints of delays in existing projects. The announcement came two days after the military expressed concern about India's depleted underwater combat capabilities due to delays in constructing tactical submarines for the 134-ship navy. Information Minister Ambika ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Dec 23, 2009Europe accused the United States and China of torpedoing the Copenhagen climate summit and vowed not to back down in its push for a tough, binding accord to avert the potential disaster of global warming. Post-summit recriminations deepened even among the select nations, including the United States, China, India and Brazil, that convened behind closed doors to stitch together a widely panned ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2009French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday that any "misunderstandings" between Paris and Beijing were a thing of the past, as he wrapped up an official visit to China. Fillon told students at Beihang University in the Chinese capital that both sides now wanted to move forward on the basis of "mutual respect," after a row last year over Tibet. "It's true that there have been ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 23, 2009A Purdue University scientist has shown man-made changes to the landscape have affected Indian monsoon rains, suggesting that land-use decisions play an important role in climate change. Monsoon rainfall has decreased over the last 50 years in rural areas where irrigation has been used to increase agriculture in northern India, said Dev Niyogi, an associate professor of agronomy and earth ... more 
Dhaka (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Bangladesh, one of the nations most vulnerable to global warming, will seek 15 percent of a 30-billion-dollar climate change fund committed at the Copenhagen summit, the environment minister said Tuesday. Bangladesh, with a population of 150 million, makes up around 15 percent of the approximately one billion people estimated to be affected by global warming, Environment Minister Hasan ... more |
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