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ENVIRONMENT: Scientists Have Good And Bad News For The Tiger
The world's top tiger experts ended two days of deliberations here Friday, making it clear that scientists, law enforcement agencies and politicians would have to work better together if efforts to save the endangered big cat are to succeed.CARIBBEAN-TECHNOLOGY: New Telecom Regulations Pose New Challenges //REPEATING//
The US Federal Communications Commission's proposal to unilaterally impose new settlement rate benchmarks for telephone traffic out of its borders is causing quite a flurry in the Caribbean.CARIBBEAN-TECHNOLOGY: New Telecom Regulations Pose New Challenges
The US Federal Communications Commission's proposal to unilaterally impose new settlement rate benchmarks for telephone traffic out of its borders is causing quite a flurry in the Caribbean.HEALTH-SCIENCE: Argentine Scientists Lack Finance
A group of Argentine scientists, who successfully managed to eliminate skin cancer from laboratory mice, now have difficulties in financing further research.GUYANA-TECHNOLOGY: Telephone Goes to the Interior
To many people in this South American country's interior, if they could have one wish turned to reality, it would be to be able to pick up the telephone and call a neighbour.GUYANA-TECHNOLOGY: Out of the Dark and Into the Light
To many Guyanese who have learned to plan their lives around several hours of electricity outage each day, a recent move by the government could mean not only vindication for the present administration but also a light at the end of what many are calling a very long and dark tunnel.DEVELOPMENT: Corporate Control of Technology Stymies ‘Knowledge Revolution’
The system of patents that now allows multinational corporations to control developments in computers, telecommunications, and other technologies should give way to a different set of protections for intellectual property, development analysts say.ZIMBABWE-COMMUNICATION: Court Orders State To Quicken Its Pace
A recent Supreme Court ruling ordering government to speed up the administrative procedures on the licensing of cellular telecommunications services is likely to put more pressure on the State to loosen its tight grip.TECHNOLOGY: United Nations Praises ‘Leapfrog’ Technologies
Inexpensive modern technologies in food production, energy, pollution, shelter and waste management can allow debt-burdened developing countries to catch up with the industrialised world, says the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP).DEVELOPMENT: Harnessing The Power Of The Sun To Cut Diarrhoea Cases
A new solar treatment for drinking water can cut rates of diarrhoea by up to a third in the developing world and is simplicity itself, says a study published by a leading British medical journal -- all you do is leave the water out in the sun.HEALTH: Monitoring Environmental Change Could Help Predict Epidemics
A combination of data from oceanography, ecology, microbiology, epidemiology, medicine, marine biology and satellite imagery would enable scientists to better understand cholera, and ultimately prevent global epidemics.DISARMAMENT: Focus On Hunt For Biological Weapons Misses Real Threat
The Western world's desire to prevent 'enemy' states like Iraq from developing biological weapons has resulted in a dangerous preoccupation with the fine detail of verification, one that undermines efforts to confront a greater threat, say experts.GUYANA: Another Attempt to Settle the Telephone Company Dispute
Ever since the People's Progressive Party, under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, was swept to office four years ago it has never enjoyed cordial relations with the U.S- owned Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company.DISARMAMENT: Verification System for Bio-Weapons, But Only By 2001
Northern states used to dub biological weapons the 'poor man's atomic bomb' on the grounds that their ease of manufacture put arms of mass destruction within the reach of almost any state.DISARMAMENT: Spectre of Nuclear Terrorism Worries Physicians
If the terrorists who bombed New York City's World Trade Centre in 1993 had placed a simple low-yield nuclear bomb on the steps of the centre, it would have blown the famous twin towers into the nearby Hudson river.WEST BANK: Palestinians Must Enter ‘Global Village’ Through Oslo
Palestinians are queuing up to become part of the "global village" and hitch a ride on the information superhighway. But they lack the means and their ambitions are conditioned by the tenuous Oslo peace accord now stalled by political intransigence.BRAZIL-AGRICULTURE: Agro-Toxins Linked to Suicides
An alarming increase in incidence of suicide among tobacco-farmers in Brazil's is being linked to the use of organic phosphoric agricultural products or "agro-toxinst."PALESTINE: Web Surfers Sideslip Technological And Political Problems
Ironically, it was bureaucratic hassles with Israel that helped Maan Bseiso blaze a trail of new technology in Palestine.LATIN AMERICA-EDUCATION: Globalisation Demands Regional Alliances
Integration is Latin America's only alternative in the face of today's globalisation of educational processes, according to participants in a regional conference on the transformation of higher education being held in Cuba.HEALTH: Mistaken Diagnosis Of Yellow Fever Could Bring It To Asia
A recent case of yellow fever mistaken for dengue raises the risk that the disease could return to Asia and start its spread before it is correctly identified, says the World Health Organisation (WHO).CHINA: Genetics Project Causes Concern
Geneticists are concerned about a project in which a French company will investigate the DNA of China's 1.2 billion people for genes indicating major diseases.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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