Monday, September 26th, 2011
Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala (Green), who is also responsible for matters related to state corporate ownership, does not plan to intervene in the activities of the state-owned railway company VR. “The owner, that is, the state, does not choose or remove the operative management. Read More
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Planning officials have cited the Government’s proposed changes to the planning system in a series of contentious decisions even though the new guidelines have yet to come into force. Approval has been granted to developments that will see meadows and green fields making way for new housing, office buildings and industrial lorry parks. Housing developers have
Monday, September 26th, 2011
A government commission and Southeast Asian center here have begun exploring areas of cooperation, particularly on climate change (CC). Knowledge management was initially identified as an area in which the Climate Change Commission (CCC) and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization-Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEAMEO SEARCA) could explore possible collaboration. Read
Monday, September 26th, 2011
The US-based global positioning system (GPS) major Garmin has launched its second model in the country and is targeting to garner a 20 percent share of the growing personal navigation devices market in the country over the next 12 months. “The PND (personal navigation devices) market in the country is at around 50,000 units a year. We
Monday, September 26th, 2011
So relevant to all life forms and our climate, the sea’s salt has now been estimated by NASA’s Aquarius/SAC-D satellite observatory. After two and a half weeks, since only August 25th, the preliminary data have been exemplary, providing us with an early view of large-scale ocean patterns. Read More
Monday, September 26th, 2011
The host of the 17th INTERGEO, DVW President Prof. Karl-Friedrich Thöne, sums it up nicely: “Geo and modern-day government or modern-day society – highly networked geoinformation systems and structures are in growing demand for public administration and business applications.” The accumulated knowledge of the experts attending the leading international conference and trade fair, which will
Monday, September 26th, 2011
On-site data capture has never been so easy! With Mipela GeoSolutions new X-Info Aware for iPhones, users can easily capture and share information about their location. X-Info Aware is now available from the App Store for free. It allows users to create geonotes, and associate text, images, video and audio recordings with map locations. X-Info Aware also
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
The Plesetsk spaceport in the Arkhangelsk region has resumed preparations for launching a Glonass-M navigation satellite with a Soyuz-2-1b rocket on October 1, Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin told Itar-Tass on Friday.According to Itar-Tass, he said the spaceport personnel had attached the Fregat booster and the satellite to the rocket. The assembly will be
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
A joint initiative between a group of interior design students at UC Duoc Alameda, a technical university, and the Yungay Neighborhood Cultural Association has created the Yungay 2020 project to revitalize the Santiago neighborhood and make it a new cultural and tourist center. Read More
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Members of the public have been asked for their views on legislation designed to crack down on rogue property factors. Minimum standards for the property and land management industry have been set out as a code of conduct. It follows the introduction of the Property Factors (Scotland) Act, which was passed by the Scottish parliament early in
