Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Computer knowledge undervalued
Iraqis demand better life amid new calm
Greener way to recover methane
US sets terms for climate talks
UN warns on soaring food prices
China's economic muscle shrinks
Ageing threatens China economy
Corn's key role as food and fuel
Why Pregnant Women Don't Topple
Billionaires connect with the masses
Bill Gates - Skills you need to succeed
What is Bill Gates Learning From Open Source?
Caution urged in new method for stem cells
Analysts exurberant about Macworld Expo
Facebook Sues Porn Company Over Hacking
Black hole 'bully' blasts galaxy
Jet From Supermassive Black Hole Seen Blasting Neighboring Galaxy
Planning your future career is a tough job
China to survey dialects to better protect them
Asia shares bruised by stagflation worry
Walking packs huge health punch
Global rights group accuses Malaysia of silencing minority
China allows banks to invest in British stocks
Chinese banks will be able to invest client money in British stocks and mutual funds, China said after a striking a deal with the European nation's regulators. Britain will become only the second overseas investment destination after Hong Kong for Chinese banks, which can invest client money overseas under China's Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) programme."The latest move will give (Chinese) investors more access to global capital markets and diversify the investment risks," the China Banking Regulatory Commission said... CNA
Snail caviar - The new gourmet frontier
Singapore maths books adopted by California's education board
Oil prices to stay high into 2008
Bush sees storm clouds over US economy
Monday, December 03, 2007
Preventing suicide among the elderly
China banks on hydropower to cut emissions, but at huge human cost
In India, a terrible place to be born a girl
Why work when you can hibernate?
South Koreans rethink preference for sons
How Bauhaus was shaped into greatness
Corruption and theft soar in Iraq
Small merchants gain large presence on Web
Spy chief in Britain accuses China of cyber crime
Progress slow in fight against cancer
Despite optimistic claims by national leaders that America is finally turning the tide against cancer, a growing number of patient advocates and researchers say they are discouraged by continuing slow progress in the nation's 36-year war against the disease. Many of the most anticipated new drugs have extended patients' lives by only a few months at great expense, they say, and researchers still don't understand what makes the disease spread - the cause of 90 percent of cancer deaths. Although deaths from cancer have declined slightly since 2002, cancer specialists say that reflects earlier detection of the disease as well as lifestyle changes, such as quitting smoking, more than dramatic improvements in treatments. For many types of cancer, once the disease... IHT
Ending famine, simply by ignoring the experts
Malawi hovered for years at the brink of famine. After a disastrous corn harvest in 2005, almost five million of its 13 million people needed emergency food aid. But this year, a nation that has perennially extended a begging bowl to the world is instead feeding its hungry neighbors. It is selling more corn to the World Food Program of the United Nations than any other country in southern Africa and is exporting hundreds of thousands of tons of corn to Zimbabwe. In Malawi itself, the prevalence of acute child hunger has fallen sharply. In October, the United Nations Children's Fund sent three tons of powdered milk, stockpiled here to treat severely malnourished children, to Uganda instead. "We will not be able to use it!" Juan Ortiz-Iruri, Unicef's deputy representative in Malawi, said jubilantly. Farmers explain Malawi's extraordinary turnaround — one with broad implications for hunger-fighting methods across Africa — with one word: fertilizer... IHT
What the Gospel of Judas really says
Limits of 21st-century revolution
OPEC's tough call: Raise or hold oil supply
Facebook move doesn't clear up privacy fears
Amazing find of dinosaur mummy
Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of a dinosaur that has much of its soft tissue still intact. Skin, muscle, tendons and other tissue that rarely survive fossilisation have all been preserved in the specimen unearthed in North Dakota, US. The 67 million-year-old dinosaur is one of the duck-billed hadrosaur group. The preservation allowed scientists to estimate that it was more muscular than thought, perhaps giving it the ability to outrun predators like T. rex... BBC
Freed British teacher to fly home after Sudan ordeal
Standing in the Way of Stem Cell Research
All eyes on China, India as summit begins
Malaysian foreign minister warned other governments not to meddle in his country's affairs
Malaysian foreign minister warned other governments not to meddle in his country's affairs on Monday after ethnic Indian activists wrote to Britain urging UN action over what they alleged was ethnic cleansing in Malaysia. Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said Malaysia's government is able to resolve any woes of members of the ethnic Indian minority, and urged them to refer any complaints to the government rather than foreign countries. 'If there is anything that we are dissatisfied with, there are avenues within our system to deal with it. Malaysians don't want foreign interference,' he told reporters. Ethnic Indian activists, who say they suffer discrimination because of an affirmative action policy that favours members of the Malay Muslim majority, cited the demolition of dozens of Hindu temples as evidence of 'ethnic cleansing' in two letters sent to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last month. They said the moves were an attempt to drive out the ethnic Indian minority. The activists, from the Hindu Rights Action Force, urged Britain to spearhead UN action against Malaysia over the allegations. The group's leader also was traveling to India, Europe and the United States to seek support for the cause... AsiaOne
Gordon Brown accused over rising child poverty
Cyclone Adds to Bangladesh's Uncertainty
Al-Jazeera can be broadcast in Singapore
China says drug safety drive showing results by tightening rules
Affluence or democracy - Russians decide
Singapore opens first nano-scale measurement facility
Koreans need to change mindsets towards foreigners
Global economies resilient amid US financial turmoil
India can sustain rapid growth for 20 years
Chinese think tank suggests increase in yuan flexibility
Sudan pardons British teacher
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir on Monday pardoned a British woman teacher jailed for 15 days for insulting religion by naming a teddy bear after the Prophet Mohammed, a presidential adviser said. "She was pardoned thanks to the mediation of Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi. She will be released in about an hour," Mahjoub Fadl Badri told AFP. A Sudanese court last Thursday sentenced Gillian Gibbons to 15 days in prison for insulting religion by naming a teddy bear after Islam's prophet at the exclusive English school where she taught in Khartoum. Two British Muslim peers, Lord Nazir Ahmed and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi from the Upper House of Parliament were on Monday meeting Beshir at the Republican Palace after flying to Khartoum in order to secure a pardon... CNA