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Australia's Queensland lifts uranium mining banSydney (AFP) Oct 22, 2012 Australia's mineral-rich Queensland state reversed a decades-long ban on uranium mining Monday, citing rekindled interest in the nuclear fuel after Canberra gave the go-ahead to exports to India. Uranium has not been dug in Queensland since the 1982 closure of the major Mary Kathleen mine, while mining for it was outlawed by the state government in 1989. But Premier Campbell Newman said the national government's overturning of an export ban to India last year, and Prime Minister Julia Gillard's ... read more |
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  Japan trade tumbles amid global slowdown, China spat Japan posted its worst September trade figures in more than 30 years, official data showed Monday, as the global slowdown and a territorial spat with China weighed on the world's third-largest economy. ... more | .. |
  Will Apple go for 'kill' with iPad Mini? Just weeks after its momentous launch of the iPhone 5, Apple is back with what is expected to be another hot gadget - a "mini" version of its market-leading iPad tablet. ... more | .. |
  Canada opposes Petronas bid for Canadian gas producer A top Canadian official said his country is not satisfied with the $5.3 billion bid by Malaysian state energy firm Petronas to buy the Canadian gas producer Progress Energy Resources. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Bad weather stops south Iraq oil exports Oil exports through Iraq's southern oil terminals, through which the vast majority of the country's crude exports flow, have been suspended due to bad weather, an official said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 eBay pays 1.2m pounds in British taxes on sales of 800m pounds Online auction giant eBay paid only Pounds 1.2 million ($1.92 million, 1.47 million euros) in tax to the British government despite generating Pounds 800 million in sales in the country, the Sunday Times reported. ... more | .. |
  Iraqi officials venture into world of the Internet Smiling shyly, Wassan Saleh admitted to being the face of a vast problem across Iraq's bureaucracy that officials are now trying to remedy: she had never used a computer. ... more | .. |
  Hong Kong steps in to curb strong currency The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has sold $603 million worth of Hong Kong dollars in the foreign exchange market in an effort to curb the currency's rise, a report said. ... more |
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Study challenges climate change's link to our wild winter jet stream
Successful liftoff delivers Sentinel4 on MTG satellite to enhance atmospheric forecasting
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 Huawei row shines light on East-West culture clash US security fears over two China telecom firms have spotlighted Western suspicions Chinese companies are state-influenced, a culture clash analysts say could loom larger as the country's businesses look overseas. ... more | .. |
  Beneficial Mold Packaged in Bioplastic Aflatoxins are highly toxic carcinogens produced by several species of Aspergillus fungi. But not all Aspergillus produce aflatoxin. Some, in fact, are considered beneficial. One such strain, dubbed ... more | .. |
  Manufacturing complex 3D metallic structures at nanoscale made possible The fabrication of many objects, machines, and devices around us rely on the controlled deformation of metals by industrial processes such as bending, shearing, and stamping. Is this technology tran ... more | .. |
  Stanford researchers use solar power to study elephants in Africa A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight. The seasonal solar-powered research c ... more |
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 A novel scheme to enhance local electric fields around metal nanostructures Enhanced local electric fields are predominant in nonlinear optical properties, particularly in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), which is a sensitive technique used for the detection of tra ... more | .. |
  Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow the quick and reliable transfer of quantum information throughout a computing d ... more | .. |
 Apple opens biggest Asian store in Beijing Apple on Saturday opened its biggest Asian store yet in Beijing, with hordes of shoppers descending on the three-floor complex that highlights the growing importance of China to the US tech giant. ... more | .. |
 Alberta to monitor oil sands The Canadian province of Alberta said it will create an "arm's-length" agency to monitor the long-term environmental impact of oil sands development. ... more |
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Bioplastic habitats could sustain algae growth for space colonization
Boeing expands SES O3b mPOWER fleet with latest satellite delivery
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 Greek anger over austerity not abating Greek anger over the European Union-led austerity plans being enforced by the government shows no sign of abating as one tragedy after another unfolds in the streets of Athens. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: AA restructuring It's been nearly one year since American Airlines announced reluctantly that it could no longer avoid the inevitable. Like the many airlines before it, American would have to adapt to a new airline environment in which restructuring, internal and external realignment became paramount if an airline was to be in the conversation about tomorrow's survivors. ... more | .. |
  Irish wave energy test site to get license An offshore test site to measure Ireland's potential to develop wave energy will soon be granted a license, the country's energy minister said this week. ... more | .. |
 Fund in Argentine ship row offers to repatriate some sailors A fund whose court claims have led to the seizure of an Argentine warship in Ghana has offered to repatriate its stranded sailors who are "of other nationalities," according to a letter obtained by AFP Friday. ... more |
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 Google shares suspended after earnings release blunder Google shares were suspended for more than two hours Thursday after an erroneous early release of its disappointing third quarter results shocked the market and sent the Internet giant's stock price tumbling. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to tighten power plant emission limits Hong Kong on Friday announced new targets in its bid to cut emissions from power plants, part of an ongoing effort to tackle air pollution in the Chinese city that is regularly covered in smog. ... more | .. |
  China backs suit against Obama over wind farm deal China on Friday said it hoped the United States would "fairly" handle a lawsuit filed by a Chinese-led company against President Barack Obama over a blocked wind farm project. ... more | .. |
 Japan's NEC revises up profit forecast Japanese information technology firm NEC said Friday it has revised its half year forecast from a loss to a healthy net profit, with reports saying demand for iPhones was helping the company. ... more |
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Planet secures 240 million euro satellite services contract with German government
Sceye secures SoftBank backing to launch HAPS connectivity services in Japan
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 Safety still concern at Zambia's Chinese-owned mines Work conditions at Zambia's Chinese-owned copper mines have improved, but the Asian giant's labour record is still clouding its sizeable investments into the country, Human Rights Watch said Friday. ... more | .. |
 AREVA awarded new contract to supply LEU fuel elements to Research Reactor MARIA At the occasion of the RERTR 2012 International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy in Warsaw on October 14 to 17, AREVA CERCA, a 10 ... more | .. |
 Bus service for qubits Qubit-based computing exploiting spooky quantum effects like entanglement and superposition will speed up factoring and searching calculations far above what can be done with mere zero-or-one bits. ... more | .. |
 Cleaner fracking The technology that opened a wealth of new natural gas resources in the U.S. is producing millions of gallons of dirty water - enough from one typical gas well to cover a football field to a depth o ... more |
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 Developing the next generation of microsensors Imagine navigating through a grocery store with your cell phone. As you turn down the bread aisle, ads and coupons for hot dog buns and English muffins pop up on your screen. The electronics industr ... more | .. |
  China to test driverless cars for 75 miles Engineers in China say unmanned automobiles will travel from Beijing to Tianjin, a distance of 75 miles, sometime next year in a test of driverless technology. ... more | .. |
 New cobalt-graphene catalyst could challenge platinum for use in fuel cells There's a new contender in the race to find an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts for use in hydrogen fuel cells. Brown University chemist Shouheng Sun and his students have developed a n ... more | .. |
 ORNL study confirms magnetic properties of silicon nano-ribbons Nano-ribbons of silicon configured so the atoms resemble chicken wire could hold the key to ultrahigh density data storage and information processing systems of the future. This was a key find ... more |
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