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The heavily taxed French like to grouse about all the levies they pay, but there’s a new tax that’s turned that constant grumble into a roar. Called la taxe carbone, or the carbon tax, the new levy would charge businesses and individuals €17 for...
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Thank god so far Dalai Lama does not need permission from China to visit Arunachal & can stay at Dharmshala till god wants. I wonder why there is no national...
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Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and...
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Our huge hue and cry over the Chinese aggression matters little to china. We are no match for them and they know that very well. So they hold us in contempt for being a...
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China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country’s economic boom to hire more...
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I’ve never understood the affinity between communists and Islamists. When it comes to spirituality they are polar opposites- Communists are atheists, and...
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A TOP China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an “historical inevitability”, state media said today, marking an apparent shift in...
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Oh! What a strange! Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, is dauntless to throw charge against the Pakistani Government. “Pakistan is safe haven for Al Qaeda since...
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A bus plunged into a valley along a mountainous road in China’s northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people and injuring at least 40 others, local police and the...
made popular Oct 31 2009
This Halloween, prepare to be scared in China.
The country’s first Halloween haunted house attraction is spooking the crowds in Shanghai, with its creators...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Somehow the People’s Republic of China looks down upon India, since its inception, and keeps frightening its neighbour quite often. Surprisingly, its relations...
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All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in...
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China’s GDP increased 8.9 percent for the third quarter, moving closer toward the goal of 8 percent growth for the year.
Growth for the first three quarters of...
made popular Oct 23 2009
After she refused a corrupt cop’s demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the...
made popular Oct 22 2009
A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said.
The bulk carrier De Xin Hai was hijacked around...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Six people were sentenced to death Thursday for their involvement in a deadly ethnic riot in western China in July, the official Chinese news agency reported. Three of...
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This afternoon more than a dozen Liberians are expected at the Samuel Doe sports stadium in the capital, Monrovia. In a makeshift classroom with some plastic chairs and...
made popular Oct 15 2009
With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in...
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China is slowly and gradually taking control of poor countries that surround India. By throwing up economic support to smaller countries, these countries are getting...
made popular Oct 13 2009
Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.
More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to...
made popular Oct 12 2009
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Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...
made popular Oct 15 2009
“Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one’s allotted portion of the...
made popular Oct 5 2009
Cars pollute as soon as they are turned on, whether they are moving or sitting still in traffic. To blame air pollution on rickshaws because they slow down cars is...
made popular Oct 1 2009
Federal wildlife researchers report that up to 200 dead walruses were spotted from the air along the northwest coast of Alaska.
Researchers spotted 100 to 200...
made popular Sep 18 2009
China is currently the leading monitors of carbon dioxide in the air on a global scale. It generates 80% of its electricity from coal, polluting cities and contributing...
made popular Sep 11 2009
First they kidnapped their bosses; then they threatened to blow up their own factories. Now, in the latest phase of France’s summer of discontent, disgruntled...
made popular Aug 21 2009
The number of Chinese children found with excess lead in their blood near a metal plant in central China has reached 1,354, state media said on Thursday, with new...
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Who had told evolution had finished forever?
If no quarrels to such suggestion professors-in-related-fields demonstrate investigating, for instance, the mutations of...
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The Peppered Moth was white with small black speckles but over time it evolved to being almost black in parts of the UK because of heavy industrial pollution Photo:...
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A few days ago, I was returning home from a friend of mine here in my city and, to my surprise, a company donated a land and made that area a public garden space.
I...
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In May, I went to Guayaquil, with sewage as my calling card!
Guayaquil is Ecuador’s largest city and center of commerce and shipping, located at the mouth of the...
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Senior U.S. and Chinese officials began three days of talks here Monday in hopes of making a breakthrough on climate change, but they remain far apart on the basic...
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Afghan government officials claim that diseases originating from the pollution of living environment in Kabul city only, kill at least eight (8) in every 24 hours. This...
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As climate change, pollution and industrial consumption place increasing pressure on Chile’s freshwater supply, a growing chorus of voices is demanding serious reform...
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This blog features 10 basic things that one can to do to contribute towards the long journey of saving the earth. Besides being green it is cost effective way of...
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The big cities have fallen prey to the men’s short-sightedness. We seem to have bid adieu to environmental concerns in a mad rush to stuff them with so-called...
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Kolkata is unable to breath.The great mass of people living here and commuting everyday for work are silently chocking to death.But see,in spite of taking such...
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Kathmandu is the capital and largest city of Nepal. The city is situated in kathmandu valley that also contains two other cities - Patan and Bhaktapur. The city stands...
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In the past two and a half thousand years, the temples of the Acropolis have suffered fire, bombing and earthquake. Now, scientists are trying to save them from a new...
made popular Oct 20 2008
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Worker try to clear a barrage of used plastic bottles which blocked the Olt river near the city of Miercurea Ciuc, in Romania’s central region Transylvania, Friday, April 24, 2009. According to local authorities millions of plastic bottles from an...
