Jumbos to get protection
Elephants in Kui Buri National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, willbe treated with "extreme care and caution" to ensure their well-being is not affected by the park's rehabilitation, according to
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Gets ISO 14000
The electronics division of Usha group of companies has been awarded ISO 14000, a certification for environment management
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Campaign to fight garbage woes in city
If you feel guilty every time you throw away plastic bags or bottles, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has come up with a campaign to help you take care of the "junk" in a more
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Beauty of countryside may get legal protection
Some particularly scenic areas in previously unconsidered farming and fishing districts will be added to the Japan government list of sites designated for preservation for their natural beauty, it
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Researchers try to slow the brain's age decline
Two new studies point to the possibility of slowing the natural decline in brain function that comes with old age. In one study, reported in the Sept. 14 Proceedings of the National Academy of
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Africa's apocalypse
Edisa Nangiri is 14 and she's dyin g of AIDS.23 million Africans share her fate. What's the West doing? Edisa is one of 23 million African people infected with HIV/AIDS who are fighting the plague,
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Demand for community forests increasing
The demand for community forest has been increasing to such an extent in Dolakha district of Nepal that the demand is far more than the target of the district forest office. The target for the
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Plant import is risky
A farmer once imported a million fruit cuttings into Bhutan with no knowledge of the high risks involved. The implications of importing new crop diseases into the country are only now being
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37 countries facing food emergencies
FAO: Food emergencies persist throughout the world, mainly due to the effects of adverse weather, civil strife and chronic economic problems. Currently, 37 countries face food emergencies in varying
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Specialist surgeons are better
report : People with bowel cancer treated by a specialist colorectal surgeon are much less likely to die and have fewer complications than people treated by general surgeons,
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Diabetes to be major disease by year 2010
Doctors predict that diabetes will be the major non-communicable disease in the next millennium and India with its vast population will have the largest number of diabetes in the world by 2010.
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Cerebral malaria stages a comeback
Once Bangladesh was declared malaria-free following massive eradication drives in the 1960s. Of late, the killer disease staged a comeback. It is prevalnet in Chittagong Hill Tracts and other
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Smoking in public places to be banned
The ban on smoking and spitting in public places in Goa would come into force from October 2, the Chief Minister, Mr. Luizinho Faleiro, said on
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Hurricane rains spark flooding
Hurricane Floyd left its mark on Costa Rica this week after unleashing torrential rains that flooded many parts of the north and central Pacific basin and left hundreds of people homeless or cut off.
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Greenpeace launches public campaign for the regulation of the environmental crimes law in Brazil
Greenpeace today launched a public campaign to put pressure on the Minister of the Civil House, Pedro Parente, to regulate the Environmental Crimes Law. A regulation proposal was sent by the Minister
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New hotel rating system gets '5 leaves'
A pioneering hotel rating system that officials hope will one day become an internationally-recognized standard for sustainable tourism received an enthusiastic thumbs-up from
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FDA panel backs new use for cancer drug Taxol
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel on Friday unanimously recommended expanding the approved uses for leading cancer drug Taxol to patients with early-stage breast cancer. Taxol, sold by
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Deal made on AIDS drug sales
The United States and South Africa reached an agreement yesterday that supporters say eases the way for the manufacture and sale of more affordable AIDS drugs in South Africa. The joint
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Replacing plasma helps some MS patients
Replacing the blood plasma in multiple sclerosis patients suffering from acute attacks of the mysterious disease helped about 40 percent of them improve, a study released on Friday
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Itochut to largely drop modified soyabeans
Itochu Corp. from October will import almost all of the soyabeans used for making processed foods from U.S. suppliers on nongenetically modified crops, officials at the giant trading house said. The