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China, Japan agree to talks on disputed gas field Sydney (AFP) Sept 6, 2007 
Japan and China on Thursday agreed to hold further talks on proposed joint exploration of a disputed natural gas field in the East China Sea, a Japanese official said. Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi agreed that senior officials should discuss the proposal in Beijing on September 21, foreign ministry spokesman Mitsuo Sakaba told ... read more
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Protests as BBC scraps planned green day
London (AFP) Sept 6, 2007The BBC has dropped plans to hold a day of programming highlighting the threat from climate change, it said Thursday, in a move which has drawn sharp criticism from environmental groups. The "Planet Relief" telethon had been pencilled in for early next year and was due to feature stars including Emmy Award-winning comedian Ricky Gervais. But it was ditched after some senior BBC ... more Indian parliament stalls over US nuke deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 6, 2007India's opposition stalled parliament on Thursday over a controversial nuclear accord with the United States as it demanded a joint parliamentary probe into the deal. The pact, concluded in August, seeks to bring New Delhi into the loop of global atomic commerce after a gap of more than three decades. But it has been rejected by the Congress-led government's communist allies and the ... more China Southern orders 55 planes from Boeing 
New York (AFP) Sept 6, 2007China Southern Airlines has ordered 55 "next-generation" 737 jets from US aviation giant Boeing, the companies announced Thursday. The order from China's largest airline would be worth 3.8 billion dollars at list prices, but large orders are often discounted. The 55 planes, the smallest models in Boeing's civilian airline fleet, will supplement the 129 737s operated by China Southern as ... more Shell defends environmental record in Argentina 
London (AFP) Sept 6, 2007Anglo-Dutch oil firm Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday defended standards at its Argentina operations after authorities there closed a Shell refinery near Buenos Aires on environmental grounds. "All of our operations were and still are conducted according to the local legislation and strengthened Shell standards," a company spokesman in London told AFP. ... more Sunpower Launches Full Range Of Solar Power Solutions In Italy 
Milan, Italy (SPX) Sep 06, 2007At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition this week, SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWR - News), a US-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, is launching a range of solar products and systems for the Italian residential, commercial and solar power plant markets. For homeowners, SunPower is introducing a 220-watt, all-black ... more |
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Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2007Lockheed Martin announced that the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser (ABL) team has demonstrated the capability to accurately point and focus the elements of the Lockheed Martin-developed Beam Control/Fire Control system on an airborne target. The ABL team successfully directed the beam generated by a surrogate High Energy Laser at a missile-shaped target on the side of an Air Force ... more New York's yellow cabs brake for strike 
New York (AFP) Sept 5, 2007Thousands of New York's taxi drivers on Wednesday put on the brakes with a 48-hour strike just as the US Open tennis tournament moved toward a climax and the city's Fashion Week started up. Passengers took to the subway or shared rides in lighter-than-usual traffic as drivers of the city's signature yellow cabs halted work in anger at plans to introduce satellite positioning systems in ... more Half-price Big Mac to fight global warming proves big hit in Japan 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 5, 2007A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald's hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1.3 dollars), about half the normal price, to anyone demonstrating a commitment to preventing climate change. People were asked to ... more Synova-Manz Automation Partnership Unveils Fully Automated Photovoltaic Manufacturing System For Edge Isolation 
Milan, Italy (SPX) Sep 06, 2007EU PVSEC -- Manz Automation AG (Reutlingen, Germany) and Synova SA has unveiled the ILE 2400, an inline laser edge isolation system for photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing of mono- and multi-crystalline solar cells. Integrated with Synova's proprietary water jet-guided laser technology -- Laser MicroJet -- the enables manufacturers to effectively isolate the edge of PV cells to prevent short ... more |
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 5, 2007 Security in Iraq is a major holdup to investment there, sometimes second only to the lack of a law governing Iraq's vast oil and gas reserves. Various security plans, by Iraqi and U.S. forces, are intended to break the cycle of violence, but little of the ambitions for Iraq's future will take hold until its citizens face fewer day-to-day threats to their lives. Inter- and ... more MIT Unraveling Secrets Of Red Tide 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Sep 05, 2007In work that could one day help prevent millions of dollars in economic losses for seaside communities, MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine organisms likely produce the red tide toxin that periodically shuts down U.S. beaches and shellfish beds. In the Aug. 31 cover story of Science, the MIT team describes an elegant method for synthesizing the lethal components of red tides. ... more Malaysia culls 50,000 pigs over smell, pollution 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Malaysian authorities on Tuesday began slaughtering some 50,000 pigs in southern Malacca state, saying that the stench and pollution from unlicensed farms had become unbearable. Ismail Salleh, Malacca's state secretary, told AFP that the number of pigs in one state should not exceed 50,000, but that there were about 120,000 in Malacca, most raised on farms operating without licences. ... more America Regains Leadership With World Record 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 05, 2007The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world's most powerful accelerator based source of neutrons for scientific research. The SNS surpassed the previous record of 160 kilowatts for beam power, held by the United Kingdom's ISIS facility, while operating at 183 kilowatts. ... more
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