China consumers key to ending reliance on Western markets: WEF
Geneva (AFP) Sept 3, 2007
China's booming export-driven economy remains vulnerable to any changes in Western consumption patterns but its burgeoning domestic market could lessen this risk, the World Economic Forum said on Monday.
China's retail sector is currently growing at a rate of 13 percent and investors are increasingly focusing on the Asian giant as a source of consumers and not just simply cheap labour, the W ... read more
Dow Corning Solar Solutions Introduces Three Materials To Support Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing
Midland MI (SPX) Sep 04, 2007
Following the launch of its first solar feedstock material (Dow Corning PV 1101 SoG Silicon) last year, Dow Corning's Solar Solutions Group has extended its product offerings for the global solar energy market with an encapsulant and two potting agents that have been tested and qualified for solar applications. "We're taking the guess-work out of figuring out which of the hundreds of ... more
No APEC deal on climate change targets: Howard
Sydney (AFP) Sept 2, 2007
Asia-Pacific countries will not agree on binding targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at a major summit this week, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum -- which includes the world's biggest polluters, the United States and China -- will outline tactics for the post-Kyoto fight against climate change at the ... more
Protesters arrested as APEC meetings kick off in Sydney
Sydney (AFP) Sept 2, 2007
Environmental activists launched the first of an expected barrage of protests at an Asia-Pacific summit in Australia on Sunday with a stunt that resulted in mass arrests. Twelve Greenpeace protesters were arrested and charged after they rode inflatable dinghies out to a ship carrying coal in a port north of Sydney and painted an anti-APEC slogan on its hull. Australian authorities have ... more
Iowa State Researcher Studies The Sustainability Of The Bioeconomy
Ames IO (SPX) Sep 04, 2007
This spring farmers responded to the ethanol industry's demand for grain by increasing their corn acreage by 19 percent over last year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. What if that happens again next year? What if farmers decide against crop rotations and plant corn on the same fields, year after year? Or, what if farmers begin growing biomass crops such as switchgrass ... more
Oil prices higher amid Hurricane Felix
London (AFP) Sept 3, 2007
World oil prices climbed on Monday as traders worried that Hurricane Felix might yet force the closure of vital oil rigs in offshore Mexico. Trading was subdued, however, owing to a public holiday in the United States. In London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for October delivery rose 66 cents to 73.35 dollars per barrel. New York's main futures contract, light sweet crude for ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Thailand seeks 200 experts for first nuclear plant
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Boffins in Ireland claim chewing gum breakthrough
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Muslim clerics say Indonesia nuclear plans 'sinful'
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Australia says no need to fear Russia nuclear deal
Sydney (AFP) Sept 4, 2007
Russia has adequate safety standards for handling nuclear materials and there is no need to fear a proposed deal to supply uranium, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Tuesday.
Violating such a deal would mean risking a confrontation with most of the western world and Moscow was unlikely to want that, Downer said.
He also dismissed the possibility of another Chernobyl disas ... more
More Mideast-China investment 'hampered by culture'
Dubai (AFP) Sept 3, 2007
Greater investment between the Middle East and China is being hampered by a lack of understanding between the two cultures, a conference in the United Arab Emirates heard on Monday.
The warning came despite trade between the two doubling since the year 2000 and projections of massive investment by some Middle Eastern states in Asia over the next five years -- with most of that money going to ... more
Princeton Engineers Develop Low-Cost Recipe For Patterning Microchips
Princeton NJ (SPX) Sep 04, 2007
Creating ultrasmall grooves on microchips -- a key part of many modern technologies -- is about to become as easy as making a sandwich, using a new process invented by Princeton engineers. The simple, low-cost technique results in the self-formation of periodic lines, or gratings, separated by as few as 60 nanometers -- less than one ten-thousandth of a millimeter -- on microchips. ... more
Asia's largest airshow to ride on China's wings
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 2, 2007
Airbus's new super jumbo will fly over Hong Kong on Monday, heralding the start of Asia's largest airshow, with the industry set to vie for slices of India's and China's booming markets. The double-decker A380 is due to pass over the city's Victoria Harbour, an airspace normally reserved for helicopters, at around 1,000 feet (300 metres), marking the beginning of the four-day show. ... more
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SUPERPOWERS
China power growing as Bush ignores Asia: Armitage
SUPERPOWERS
China promises more military transparency
FARM NEWS
APEC leaders set to discuss China food safety
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Indonesia proposes rainforest nations climate group
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 1, 2007
Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world's tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns, a senior official said Saturday. "This is the initiative of our president, in order that they be able to play an important role in the diplomacy of global warming," the spokesman for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told AFP.
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New Times Atlas displays effects of climate change
London (AFP) Sept 2, 2007
Creators of the Times Atlas have had to make significant changes to their latest edition because of changes to the world's landscapes caused by climate change, their chief said Sunday. Cartographers have had to redraw coastlines and reclassify types of land to reflect changes to geographical features like Lake Chad in Africa, which is now 95 percent smaller than it was in 1963. ... more
China launches nationwide energy saving campaign
Beijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2007
China Saturday launched a nationwide energy saving campaign, calling on its people to face the urgent task of reducing its rocketing fuel consumption and worsening pollution. Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said China had paid a heavy price for its rapid economic development in the past three decades. "Our country has taken nearly 30 years to catch up with developed countries in industrialisati ... more
Analysis: Iran seeks oil swaps
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007
Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the race to bring Caspian oil to the global market has been marked by a three-way race involving Russia, the United States and Iran. Five nations now share the Caspian's coastline - Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Russia initially won the race to exploit Kazakh and Turkmen energy assets, while Azerbaijan, first with th ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Analysis: EU shields grids from Russia
CIVIL NUCLEAR
India must not 'miss the bus' on nuclear energy: PM
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Iran may hire others to finish Russian nuclear plant: report
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