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HEALTH-VIETNAM: Winter Vigilance Against Bird Flu (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2006 at 12:01:16
| HANOI, Dec 5 (IPS) - For poultry farmer Tuan Thom, the onset of winter
calls for extra vigilance against bird flu.
And he is not
letting his guard down though avian influenza has claimed no
human victim
in Vietnam during the past 12 months, nor have
there been any poultry outbreaks. |
ENVIRONMENT: The Ides of March of the Penguins (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2006 at 09:00:35
| BROOKLIN, Canada, Nov 30 (IPS) - Ice-loving penguins have never been more popular,
but few people realise they are threatened with extinction from
climate change and industrial fishing. |
ICELAND: Aluminium Worries Environmentalists (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2006 at 12:00:37
| REYKJAVIK, Dec. 4 (IPS) - Nature conservationists are becoming increasingly
more concerned that Iceland will soon have more aluminium plants
than it can handle because it has an abundant supply of cheap,
renewable energy. |
COLOMBIA: Biodiesel Push Blamed for Violations of Rights (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2006 at 12:00:37
| BOGOTA, Dec 5 (IPS) - The Colombian government is stepping up production
of biofuels amidst an unstable mix of a boom in clean energy
technologies, the advance of monoculture and the stripping of
indigenous and black communities of their land, a habitual
practice in Colombia's four-decade civil war. |
POLITICS-CANADA: Low-Key Dion Walks Away With Surprise Win (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-05-2006 at 12:00:37
| VANCOUVER, Dec 4 (IPS) - Stephane Dion, a bookish political science
professor, walked away from Canada's Liberal Party
convention as the leader of his party after a lengthy year-long
battle reminiscent of the 1968 contest which propelled a young
Pierre Trudeau to the same position. |
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