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Environmentalists slam Bangladesh climbdown over toxic shipsDhaka (AFP) April 12, 2010 Environmental campaigners branded a move Monday by Bangladesh to ease strict controls on its vital shipbreaking industry as "suicidal", saying it would expose tens of thousands to toxic waste. The government amended a law late Sunday to permit the industry, the world's largest, to bring in ships using their own declarations that the vessels are free from toxic materials, the shipping department said. Under a government order in January, ships heading for Bangladeshi breaking yards were required ... read more |
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Apr 07, 2010Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has come under criticism from promoters of an Israeli astronomical satellite for allegedly delaying its launch and shifting the blame on schedule slippages. Tauvex comprises three ultra-violet band telescopes developed by Tel Aviv University and Israel space agency (ELOP), with Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics providing the software ... more  
Ottawa (AFP) April 6, 2010A China-based network stole Indian military secrets, hacked the Dalai Lama's office and computers around the world in an elaborate cyber espionage scheme, Canadian researchers said Tuesday. Researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab said they documented a "complex ecosystem of cyber espionage that systematically compromised government, business, academic and other computer networ ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2010US President Barack Obama will meet President Hu Jintao of China next week on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit, as both sides take steps to tone down weeks of irascible exchanges. Since Obama visited Hu in Beijing in November, the United States and China have sparred at a distance over trade, currency disputes, Taiwan and Tibet, but both sides have taken recent steps to de-emphasiz ... more |
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Geithner visit to help India out of US-China trade shadowNew Delhi (AFP) April 6, 2010 US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was in India for talks Tuesday aimed at beefing up an economic relationship that is often overshadowed by Washington's trade with China. Kicking off a two-day visit in New Delhi - where he lived as a child when his father worked for the Ford Foundation - Geithner was scheduled to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The 48-year-old, who is an Asia expert and speaks fluent Mandarin, hopes to focus talks on global ... read more |
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