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‘Dutch homes get warm water from disused coal mine’
Green energy from coal mines is something unpredictable. But yes, the coal mines which were once considered as air polluter are now a source of green energy. Dutch homes are getting warm water...
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The notice put forward to the producers regarding child labor, by the Maharashtra government is an example of biasness. There are young and talented young kids who are...
made popular Dec 17 2008
When Apple debuted its I-Phone late last year, their product revolutionized the cell phone industry. It used to be so simple then. Over a decade ago, people walked...
made popular Dec 16 2008
Till now the rural areas people of Nepal are deprived from using the facility of electricity, road drinking water health, education and other many things. Approximately...
made popular Nov 14 2008
Really, well this are not the exact thoughts of Lakhi, a 13 year old maid servant who hails from Guwahati, Assam.
Lakhi used to work as a domestic help in the house of...
made popular Nov 10 2008
Human traffickers are preying on children displaced by the Muslim insurgency in Mindanao. The Visayan Forum Foundation, which monitors human trafficking in the...
made popular Oct 30 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
In a country like India where there is rampant unemployment and underemployment amongst the adults, what is it that encourages child labour? It...
made popular Sep 16 2008
China is all set to become the next economic giant who will display its extravagance in the forthcoming Beijing Olympic Games but there is a dark side of China plagued...
made popular Sep 14 2008
For more than 30 years prior to its ban, the fishing method muro-ami was commonly used in the Philippines. During its heyday, it was the most lucrative of fishing...
made popular May 1 2008
AP, Cairo
Each day, 14-year-old Ali Abdel-Nasser works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Cairo, loading a donkey cart with new bricks to be taken to a nearby furnace to dry....
made popular Apr 4 2008
In India, poor children start working at a very young age. Some of the children work to help their families and at the same time, some families want their children to...
made popular Dec 29 2007
Every day there is news about children being exploited in some part of the world. Articles speak of kids being abused physically, verbally and even sexually. In...
made popular Dec 5 2007
The news that the global fashion company GAP has been indirectly involved in child labour while producing children’s clothing in India is hardly surprising. Local...
made popular Oct 29 2007
In a busy by-lane of a Mumbai suburb a small hut like structure is cramped up with more than twenty kids working on fake handbags, which fetch anything between Rs. 50...
made popular Oct 4 2007
China may have heading towards becoming the super power or largest economy in the entire world, but its exploitation of forced or slave labor, including children and...
made popular Jun 21 2007
The Ministry of Labor, Government of India had appointed a Committee on child labor in 1979 to examined various dimensions of child labor in different occupations....
made popular Apr 30 2007
Tiny hands are very important for shoe production, textiles, auto repair, agriculture and many other industries. This is because those tiny hands can easily polish and...
made popular Mar 28 2007
What can be the implications of exposing kids to meth or methamphetamine is still oracular as there is no relevant data available to draw out a conclusion. That is the...
made popular Jan 3 2007
A very strange terminology is coupled with the brand name World of Warcraft ‘Gold Farmers’, the characters that do nothing but farm money and high-value...
made popular Oct 10 2006
In the wake of the sensitive child labour issue in the country, the Indian government at last decided to take up some inflexible step. With the child labour law to be...
made popular Sep 11 2006
From the devastating Tsunami to the worst hit earthquakes, children around the world are affected the most by natural disasters. Figures accumulated by several child...
made popular Sep 9 2006
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Heerlen, a Dutch city, has come up with the world’s first minewater power station. The station is powered by geothermal energy accessed from deep coal mine shafts...
made popular Oct 7 2008
China’s Shenhua Energy Co., the nation’s largest coal producer, is planning to issue shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange to raise as much as $6.7 billion...
made popular Sep 7 2008
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