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China to offer social security to Tibetan clergyBeijing (AFP) Nov 24, 2011 China will start paying pensions to monks and nuns in its Tibetan areas, the official Xinhua news agency said Thursday, after a run of self-immolations by Buddhist clergy protesting religious repression. Beijing has come under mounting international criticism over its treatment of Tibetan Buddhists in recent months, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling on China to "embrace a different path". Eleven monks and nuns have set fire to themselves this year in what rights groups say is a ... read more |
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  Brazil offers to resolve land issue for Guarani Indians Brazilian authorities said Thursday they were close to a deal to secure a demarcated territory for Kaiowa Guarani Indians in the western state of Mato Grosso do Sul following last week's killing of a community chief. ... more | .. |
  Sustainability is a growing science here to stay Sustainability has not only become a science in the past 25 years, but it is one that continues to be fast-growing with widespread international collaboration, broad disciplinary composition and wid ... more | .. |
 NGO releases new pictures of Brazil's isolated Amazon tribe A non-governmental group on Tuesday released new pictures of an Indian tribe living in isolation in the Brazilian Amazon and warned that they are threatened by the return of illegal gold miners on their territory. ... more | .. |
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 China: No South China Sea interference China has cautioned against foreign interference in the disputed oil-rich South China Sea. ... more | .. |
  India eyes Australia uranium assets - report Energy-hungry India will consider acquiring Australian uranium mining assets if a controversial ban on exports to the nuclear power is lifted, a report said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Satellite images help species conservation Organisms living on small islands are particularly threatened by extinction. However, data are often lacking to objectively assess these threats. A team of German and British researchers used ... more | .. |
 Dalai Lama questions self-immolation The Dalai Lama said he doesn't encourage self-immolation by monks and nuns protesting China's control over Tibet and questions the usefulness of the acts as a protest tool. ... more |
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  India sends out RFI for 3-D naval radar The Indian navy has issued a request for information for 3-D radars to enhance the surveillance capability of warships, the Press Trust of India said. ... more | .. |
  India: more AWACS and BrahMos missiles India is in final negotiations for buying two more Israeli-made EL/M-2075 Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control Systems, the Times of India reported. ... more | .. |
  Parts of Gondwana megacontinent found off Australia Australian scientists exploring areas of the Indian Ocean said Thursday they had found sunken parts of the megacontinent Gondwana which could offer clues on how the current world was formed. ... more | .. |
  Bangladesh looks abroad for farmland Bangladesh is looking for farmland outside the country. ... more |
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 Exiled Tibetan premier to make first European tour Tibet's prime minister-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, is to embark next week on his first European tour since he was elected in April, amid increasing alarm over a wave of nun and monk immolations. ... more | .. |
  India tests long-range nuclear-capable missile India on Tuesday successfully test fired one of its longest range missiles capable of carrying a one-tonne nuclear warhead deep inside China, officials said. ... more | .. |
  US joins East Asia summit in challenge to China The United States joins an East Asian pact this week, yoking a diplomatic offensive to assert itself as a Pacific power with the interests of countries wary of China's emerging might. ... more | .. |
  India, Pakistan take new strides to normalise trade Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan on Tuesday took significant strides towards fully normalising two-way trade in the latest sign of warming ties between the longtime foes. ... 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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 Australia moves to lift India uranium ban Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved Tuesday to lift Australia's controversial ban on uranium sales to nuclear power India in a bid to strengthen relations with the fast-growing economic powerhouse. ... more | .. |
  'Climate vulnerable' countries meet in Bangladesh UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will open a forum in Bangladesh on Monday at which countries most vulnerable to climate change will try to unite ahead of global talks in South Africa in December. ... more | .. |
  India PM warns Pakistan over attacks Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned Saturday Pakistan knows one more Mumbai-style terror attack would be a "big setback" to the nuclear-armed neighbours' plans to step up their peace process. ... more | .. |
 Clinton presses China on Tibet, blind lawyer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced alarm over Beijing's treatment of Tibetans and a blind rights activist as tensions between the superpowers threatened to intrude on Pacific Rim talks. ... more |
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 Nepal defends China snub for climate summit Nepal was forced Thursday to defend a climate summit for Himalayan nations next week after it emerged China had not been invited and no leader had so far agreed to attend. ... more | .. |
Tibet protester sets himself alight in Nepal: police A Tibetan exile chanting anti-China slogans briefly set himself on fire in Nepal on Thursday before his companions put out the flames, police said. ... more | .. |
  Brazil court refuses to stop work on Amazon dam A federal court on Wednesday rejected an appeal for suspending construction of Brazil's controversial $11 billion Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon until after indigenous people have been consulted. ... more | .. |
  India's Total Solar Market to Grow From 54 MW in 2010 to more than 9 GW by 2016 Over the next five years, India will become an anchor of global solar demand, installing more than 9 GW between 2011 and 2016, according to a new report, The India Solar Market: Strategy, Players, a ... more |
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Foes India, Pakistan eye better ties The leaders of India and Pakistan will meet on the sidelines of a regional summit this week, as the nuclear-armed rivals seek to push a tentative rapprochement in their fractious relationship. ... more | .. |
  New study reveals coral reefs may support much more biodiversity than previously thought Smithsonian scientists and colleagues conducted the first DNA barcoding survey of crustaceans living on samples of dead coral taken from the Indian, Pacific and Caribbean oceans. The results suggest ... more | .. |
 Geologists find ponds not the cause of arsenic poisoning in India's groundwater The source of arsenic in India's groundwater continues to elude scientists more than a decade after the toxin was discovered in the water supply of the Bengal delta in India. But a recent study with ... more | .. |
 Sea life "must swim faster to survive" Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned. Sea life, particularly in the Indian Ocean, the Western and E ... more |
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  Somali pirate attacks hit record level Attacks on shipping by increasingly sophisticated Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean reached record levels in the first nine months of the year, the International Maritime Bureau says. ... more | .. |
 Dalai Lama blames Chinese for Tibet deaths Tibetans setting themselves on fire are protesting Beijing's "cultural genocide" policy in Tibet, the Dalai Lama said at the end of a visit to Japan. ... more | .. |
 Nepal children to track elusive snow leopard Conservationists in Nepal have enlisted an army of school children to record the movements of the mysterious snow leopard, one of the most elusive predators in the world, a scientist said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  India facing twin epidemic time bomb: doctors India is facing a twin epidemic of diabetes and high blood pressure, doctors have warned, after the results of a countrywide study suggested that one in five people had both conditions. ... more |
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