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- Two Estonians are first to swim across Gulf of Finland
- TALLINN AFP — Estonians Bruno Nopponen and Priit Vehm became the first people to swim across the Gulf of Finland Saturday, the organisers of the attempt said on their website. Nopponen took 19 hours and 13 minutes to cover the 55 kilometres (34 miles) from the Finnish port of...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- Mandela prison island turning into ghost town
- ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa AFP — South Africa's once notorious Robben Island penal colony risks ghost town status as its last residents trickle off in search of creature comforts on the mainland. The population of penguins, seals and feral cats far outnumbers the 112 human inhabitants of the present...
- Research articles 2008-03-15
- MAINLAND CHINA 07 GOT SIX-YEAR HIGH VC INVESTMENT
- AsiaInfo Services 02-26-2008 Mainland China 07 Got Six-year High VC Investment BEIJING, Feb 26, 2008 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Mainland China gained a six-year high venture capital investment of USD 2.49 billion in 2007, rising 5% year on year, according to a report by...
- Research articles 2008-02-26
- New varieties of fruit
- New varieties of tropical fruit may soon make landfall on the U.S. mainland, thanks to work by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Source: USDA
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- US-China developing better military ties: US admiral
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States and China are developing better ties despite a recent row over the port visits of US ships, the head of the US armed forces in the Asia-Pacific said Monday. "The sense I got is that they didn't want to be confrontational," Admiral Timothy...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- LEAD: Betting on horse racing may return to mainland China
- BEIJING, Jan. 11 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING COMMENTS FROM GAMBLING EXPERT) China, where the only legal form of gambling on the mainland is buying a ticket for a state-run lottery, is considering allowing its people to bet on horse races, state media have reported. The government...
- Research articles 2008-01-14
- China and Russia spying at Cold War levels : US spy chief
- WASHINGTON AFP — Chinese and Russian spies are stalking the United States at levels close to those seen during the tense covert espionage duels of the Cold War, the top US intelligence officer warned Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell raised the specter of a new era of...
- Research articles 2007-09-18
- Ang Lee bows to China and self-censors award-winning film
- BEIJING AFP — Taiwanese director Ang Lee axed 30 minutes from his award-winning erotic spy thriller "Lust, Caution" to pass China's censorship rules and make it child friendly, state media reported Tuesday. Lee, who on Saturday picked up his second Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for best picture for...
- Research articles 2007-09-10
- Hurricane Henriette zeroes in on Mexico's mainland
- MIAMI AFP — Hurricane Henriette edged closer to Mexico's mainland Wednesday, packing 120 kilometer (75 mile) per hour winds after storming across its Baja California peninsula, US forecasters said. Henriette, a category-one hurricane, was over the Gulf of California between the peninsula and Sinaloa state, about 125 kilometers (80...
- Research articles 2007-09-05
- Hong Kong tops living standards poll
- Hong Kong people enjoy the highest living standards and economic well-being in Asia while those on the mainland lag behind, an Asian Development Bank ADB study has found. But Hong Kong was the second costliest place to live in Asia after Fiji, followed by Macau, Singapore and Taipei, according to...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Malaysia lifts ban on monkey trading
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Malaysia on Friday said it has lifted a 23-year ban on the export of long-tailed macaques because their population has grown to be an urban nuisance. Natural resources and environment minister Azmi Khalid said only monkeys in urban areas could be caught and exported. ...
- Research articles 2007-08-16
- Low result for Asian markets.
- Performance Investors who put money into the Hong Kong stock market when the colony reverted to mainland Chinese control 10 years ago should have reaped returns of only 33 per cent, Fidelity has revealed. Figures from Datastream have also shown that despite...
- Research articles 2007-06-18
- Dyadic Announces Discovery of Potentially Material Operational and Financial Improprieties at its Hong Kong and Mainland China Operations
- JUPITER, Fla. -- Dyadic International, Inc. (AMEX:DIL) today announced that it has discovered potentially material operational and financial improprieties at its Hong Kong and mainland China operations following the recent death of the managing director of its Hong Kong operations. The Company's audit committee, upon the advice of counsel,...
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- AIDS medicine is rationed.(PUERTO RICO)
- The US has halted payments to clinics that treat AIDS patients, forcing hundreds of poor people to go without free medicine in a US territory with an AIDS rate nearly double that of the mainland, reports AP (March 7,2007). Local officials blame the FBI, saying agents ...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Crime's better ratings.
- Byline: Amanda Meade Mar 05, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian TV viewers favoured crime on 4 March 2007, to make the Nine Network the ratings winner. Nine gained a 34.8 per cent share of viewers in the five mainland capital...
- Research articles 2007-03-05
- Scottish hedgehogs saved after consciences pricked
- LONDON AFP — A death sentence hanging over hedgehogs on a remote Scottish island was lifted, after conservationists agreed to end an annual cull that has become a prickly issue among animal welfare groups. Hundreds of the creatures on Uist, in the north-west Outer Hebrides island chain, have been...
- Research articles 2007-02-20
- Scottish islanders' hedgehog cull poses prickly problem
- LONDON AFP — A remote Scottish island has come under growing pressure to end a controversial annual cull of hedgehogs, and ferry them to the mainland instead. The island of Uist in the Outer Hebrides off Scotland's west coast began slaughtering the prickly animals by lethal injection four years...
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- New damage, bad weather delay Asian Internet repairs
- TAIPEI AFP — Newly discovered earthquake damage to undersea cables and bad weather could delay the complete restoration of Asian Internet services until next month, telecom officials have said. A spokesman for Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom said engineers had found new damage to cables servicing China, putting back repairs by about...
- Research articles 2007-01-17
- XIB FOUNDS ITS SHANGHAI BRANCH
- AsiaInfo Services 01-01-2007 XIB Founds Its Shanghai Branch SHANGHAI, Jul 01, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Xiamen International Bank XIB, the first joint venture bank in the mainland China, founded its Shanghai branch on June 28.The bank will try to found...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Malaysia to revive 2.5 billion dollar undersea power cable
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Malaysia may revisit a massive 2.5 billion dollar project to link a powerstation on Borneo island to the mainland using undersea cables, a senior minister has said. Lim Keng Yaik, energy minister said Monday the power cables, if approved, could transport up to 5,000 kilowatts of...
- Research articles 2006-11-27
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