By Nita Bhalla, Reuters23 Jul 2012 KANZALWAN, India-Pakistan Line of Control (AlertNet) – As the silver waters of the Kishanganga rush through this north Kashmir valley, Indian labourers are hard at work on a hydropower project that will dam the river just before it flows across one of the world’s most heavily militarised borders into […]
By David Fogarty and Clare Baldwin, with additional reporting by Khettiya Jittapong and Orathai Sriring in BANGKOK, Tian Chen in HONG KONG, Andjarsari Paramaditha in JAKARTA, Chang-Ran Kim, Yoko Kubota and Taiga Uranaka in TOKYO, Kevin Lim in SINGAPORE and Norihiko Shirouzu in BEIJING; Editing by Michael Flaherty and Alex Richardson22 July 2012 BANGKOK/HONG KONG […]
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; editing by Andrew Roche22 July 2012 (Reuters) – The Chinese capital’s heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday. The storm, which started on Saturday afternoon and continued late into the […]
By Rob Sheridan18 July 2012 The largest oil-tankers booked to haul 2 million-barrel cargoes of crude from ports in the Persian Gulf are poised to slump to a 17-month low as a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy curbs oil demand. Charters of very large crude carriers to ship Middle East crude will probably fall […]
[cf. Photo gallery: Satellite images of the ghost cities of China, 2011] By Ian Williams, NBC News13 July 2012 SHANGHAI, China – It can take two or three hours to drive from bustling Shanghai to the sleepy streets of Thames Town, a new housing development built in the style of an English village complete with […]
By Nick Harding 14 July 2012 In times of national crisis people naturally turn to authority figures for solutions, which is why recently Sir David Attenborough is being asked about the weather. He’s being asked about it a lot. “This preoccupation with the weather is an English disease,” he says. “We are always talking about […]
By Tom Whipple 11 July 2012 One has to go back to the 1930’s to find a time when so much of civilization was in turmoil at once. The 30’s ended with World War II, tens of millions dead, and much of the industrialized world in ruins. It is not hard to argue that the […]
10 July 2012 (The Week) – China’s leaders are warning that the country, a reliable engine for the global economy in recent years, is facing “huge downward pressure” This week, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that the Chinese economy is facing “huge downward pressure,” the bluntest message to date from Beijing about the Asian […]
Prince George, B.C., 9 July 2012 – The bluish haze that has settled over the City is not the result of any local pollution. It is smoke from a forest fire, but not one that is raging in B.C. and, despite what you might think, it isn’t smoke that is being pushed north from the […]
By KELLY SLIVKA28 June 2012 Many see New York State’s six-million-acre Adirondack Park as a place of respite where you go to gulp down the cool air and hear loon calls echoing through the hills. The landscape is unmarred, wild. Human hands do not have to physically touch a place, though, to disturb it. Mercury […]
