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HEALTH-CHINA: Olympic Planners Kick the Butt (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 12:01:03
| BEIJING, Jun 1 (IPS) - Chinese leaders have promised to make the 2008
Olympic Games in Beijing non-smoking -- ambitious for this
country of 360 million smokers. Never have the Games that
celebrate physical fitness been held in a country more hooked on
tobacco and more afflicted by smoking-related diseases.
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DEVELOPMENT: G8 Makes Room at Table for Emerging Five (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 12:04:23
| BERLIN, Jun 1 (IPS) - The five strongest developing countries -- Brazil,
China, India, Mexico, and South Africa -- will have a place at
the Group of Eight summit of the richest countries Jun. 6-8 in
Heiligendamm, Germany, both as partners and as competitors of the
industrialised world. |
CLIMATE CHANGE-INDIA: Business as Usual on the Kerala Coast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 03:04:05
| THRISSUR, Kerala, Jun 1 (IPS) - Andrews Ambrose never misses a chance to share the
wisdom he gained from 40 years of life as a fisherman on this
coastal strip. He has to his credit two books and a map of the
seabed. |
CUBA: Sugarcane - Source of Renewable Energy, But Not Ethanol (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 06:04:22
| HAVANA, Jun 1 (IPS) - Like other Latin American countries, Cuba is
focusing on the development of renewable energy sources. But
unlike Brazil, a leader in biofuels, this Caribbean island nation
has ruled out the production of ethanol fuel based on sugarcane,
because of President Fidel Castro's opposition to using food
crops to produce biofuel on a large scale. |
ENVIRONMENT-BURUNDI: Urban Waste Becomes Urban Fuel (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-01-2007 at 09:04:04
| BUJUMBURA, Jun 1 (IPS) - Several months ago, residents of the Burundian
capital, Bujumbura, were struggling with disposal of household
waste. The Municipal Technical Services (Services techniques
municipaux, SETEMU) weren't able to deal with all the refuse
-- and health conditions in the city were deteriorating.
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