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China sentences another Tibetan environmentalistBeijing (AFP) July 4, 2010 A leading Tibetan environmentalist has been jailed for subversion, the third such verdict amid an apparent crackdown on intellectuals in the Himalayan region, activists said Sunday. Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced to five years in prison on Saturday for attempting to incite subversion by a court in Tibet's Chamdo region, poet and rights activist Woeser said on her blog. The verdict comes after his brother Karma Samdrup, 42, a noted art and antique collector and philanthropist, was sentenced b ... read more |
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College Park MD (SPX) Jun 25, 2010Most motorcycles in the world today use engines that burn gasoline, contributing to greenhouse gasses and adding air pollution to the surrounding area. Now two scientists in India have conceptually designed a new, cleaner motorcycle engine that uses compressed air to turn a small air turbine, generating enough power to run a motorcycle for up to 40 minutes. Their design, described in ... more  
Singapore (AFP) June 23, 2010Asia-Pacific millionaires are collectively worth more than their European counterparts for the first time, with the rich in China and India leading the way, a study said Wednesday. More millionaires are expected to be minted in a region that has produced some of the world's richest people, including Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing and India's Mukesh Ambani, as Asia leads the recovery from the global ... more  
Lucknow, India (UPI) Jun 23, 2010 Scientists in India say they have conceptually designed a motorcycle engine that uses compressed air, rather than gasoline, to generate power. The researchers - Bharat Raj Singh and Onkar Singh of the SMS Institute of Technology in Lucknow, India - said their new, cleaner motorcycle engine would use compressed air to turn a small air turbine, generating enough power to run for up to 4 ... more |
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Arsenic in water poisoned 77 million Bangladeshis: reportDhaka (AFP) June 20, 2010 Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported. Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by arsenic-tainted well water. By some estimates, between 35 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been chro ... read more |
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