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Exiled Tibet PM urges US pressure over protestsWashington (AFP) Nov 3, 2011 Tibet's prime minister-in-exile urged the United States on Thursday to step up pressure on China after a wave of self-immolations, which he said showed the failure of Beijing's rule. Lobsang Sangay, who was elected to the government-in-exile's new post as the Dalai Lama tries to ease out of his political role, met lawmakers in Washington while a nun became the 11th Tibetan monk or nun to set herself on fire this year. Testifying to Congress, Sangay appealed to the United States "to prevail on th ... read more |
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 Tibetans divided by self-immolations For Tashi Choezom, a Tibetan studying for a nursing degree in New Delhi, the string of suicides by monks and nuns who have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese religious repression are a sin. ... more | .. |
  Scientist: India should quit nuclear power A leading Indian nuclear scientist has indicated that India should scrap its nuclear energy program. ... more | .. |
  Asia's largest wine fair kicks off in Hong Kong Asia's largest wine fair kicked off in Hong Kong Thursday, attracting nearly 1,000 wine producers from around the world as the southern Chinese city cements its position as a key international wine hub. ... more | .. |
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  Gibson Guitar boss backs tough timber trade rules The head of Gibson Guitar said Wednesday he favors tougher US laws to combat illegal logging, under three months after federal agents seized rare Indian ebony from its factories. ... more | .. |
  Pakistan mulls importing electricity from India Energy starved Pakistan is in talks to import electricity from its erstwhile nuclear rival India to overcome crippling power outages, a government official said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Bangladesh signs deal for first nuclear plant Bangladesh on Wednesday signed an agreement for Russia to build the first nuclear power plant in the energy-starved South Asian nation, an official told AFP. ... more | .. |
  Pakistan cabinet approves India as 'most favoured' nation The Pakistani cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal granting India the status of "most favoured nation" in a move towards normalising trade relations between the two nuclear-armed arch rivals. ... more |
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  Arabian cyclones intensified by S. Asian pollution: study Airborne pollution from South Asia is helping to brew monster storms in the Arabian Sea that have claimed thousands of lives and cost billions of dollars, scientists said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  India grapples with coal shortfalls Amid a growing population and robust economy, India is finding it increasingly difficult to boost its coal supply. ... more | .. |
  Wildfire threatens Reunion Island national park French authorities sent reinforcements Monday to battle a wildfire raging through the national park of Reunion Island, a unique ecosystem designated a World Heritage Site. ... more | .. |
  Bangladesh to set up dolphin sanctuaries Bangladesh will declare three river areas in its southwest as dolphin sanctuaries, wildlife officials said Monday, in a bid to protect the country's population of endangered freshwater cetaceans. ... more |
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  Altitude sickness worst in northern India A region of northern India has been called the world's worst place for altitude sickness, and scientists say nobody knows exactly why. ... more | .. |
 India's Wipro positive despite global uncertainty Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro on Monday projected a positive outlook for the industry, despite gathering clouds over the global economy, as it announced a rise in quarterly profits. ... more | .. |
  Japan, India to accelerate joint rare earth development The foreign ministers of Japan and India agreed Saturday at a meeting in Tokyo to accelerate joint development of rare earth mineral deposits in the South Asian country. ... more | .. |
  Indian aerobatics team to get Hawks India's national Surya Kiran Aerobatics Team will be flying Hawks although the switch to the new planes may not be occur until 2016, a report in the Business Standard said. ... more |
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Polar bears bulk up despite melting Norwegian Arctic: study
US finalizes rule for deep-sea mining beyond its waters
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 Pro-Tibetan protester, Chinese clash in Austria A pro-Tibetan protester was jostled by pro-China demonstrators who tried to snatch her Tibetan flag Monday during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Austria, witnesses said. ... more | .. |
India to open rival bids for $12 bn fighter deal India's Defence Ministry has invited the two rivals for a $12 billion jet fighter contract - France's Dassault and the European Eurofighter consortium - to unveil their bids next week. ... more | .. |
 Government building bombed in Tibet: campaigners A bomb blast has ripped through a government building in Tibet, causing damage but no injuries, a leading campaign group told AFP on Thursday, citing two sources. ... more | .. |
 The healthy diners saving Nepal's vultures Nepal's vultures - decimated by medicine fed to the livestock they call dinner - are making a comeback thanks to their own chain of healthy-eating restaurants. ... more |
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 How plants sense low oxygen levels to survive flooding As countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and parts of the United States and United Kingdom have fallen victim to catastrophic flooding in recent years, tolerance of crops to partial or com ... more | .. |
Another Tibetan monk set himself a light in China A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire Tuesday in protest at China's rule of the Himalayan region, rights groups said, the tenth similar incident to occur in the nation's southwest this year. ... more | .. |
  Purdue leads national earthquake program blanketing Indiana with seismic stations Seismic equipment is being installed throughout Indiana as part of a national program to better understand how and why earthquakes and volcanic events occur, and Purdue University professors and stu ... more | .. |
 ElBaradei sees growth in nuclear power Former UN nuclear monitor and Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei expects growth in nuclear energy - particularly in emerging economies - despite the Fukushima disaster caused by Japan's March tsunami. ... more |
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  Maoist rebels kill six Indian policemen Maoist rebels in eastern India killed six policemen and injured at least three others during a daylight ambush on a motorcycle team. ... more | .. |
  Nepal scientists to 'poo-print' tigers Scientists in Nepal are to build up the world's first national DNA database of the endangered Bengal tiger by collecting and recording a unique genetic fingerprint from each adult's faeces. ... more | .. |
  India PM concedes 'problems' in China relations Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has conceded that there are "problems" with New Delhi's ties with China but overall he believes "relations are quite good." ... more | .. |
 Pakistan seeks seat in hotly contested Security Council vote UN Security Council elections on Friday could put nuclear rivals Pakistan and India at the center of the global guardian of peace. ... more |
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 US says raising Tibet concerns with China The United States said Wednesday it has raised concerns about human rights in Tibet with China as it renewed its call on Beijing to address its policies amid a wave of self-immolations by monks. ... more | .. |
Immolations spark fear in China's Tibetan Buddhists A Tibetan lama in southwest China dodges questions about a wave of self-immolations in the region, saying his monks are forbidden even to speak about the protests against religious repression. ... more | .. |
  Google Earth typhoid maps reveal secrets of disease outbreaks In the mid-nineteenth century, John Snow mapped cases of cholera in Soho, London, and traced the source of the outbreak to a contaminated water pump. Now, in a twenty-first century equivalent, scien ... more | .. |
  Metro belatedly opens in India's IT hub Bangalore The first metro in India's IT hub of Bangalore rolls into service Thursday, a long-delayed and over-budget project to help the city's army of commuting software engineers and call centre staff. ... more |
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