Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
SUTP – Johannesburg has become a meeting point for people from different countries and cultures, all connected to each other by their passion for the same sport. The good news is that the thousands of visitors to the four million metropolis do not need to worry about getting to the two stadiums, Soccer City and
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
TEKES FINLAND – The replacement value of electricity distribution networks in Finland is about EUR 15 billion and annual investment in them is some EUR 550 million. Current investment is already oriented towards future needs, such as real-time data and grid flexibility. “Most of our electricity networks were built in the 1960s and 1970s. The
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
EL MUNDO SPAIN – The Governing Council approved the Community of Madrid on Thursday declared as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) 83,000 hectares located in the southwest region, which accounts for 10% of it. The announcement was made by the president of the Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre and the minister of Environment, Housing
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Government says it will continue to focus on achieving sustainable economic growth and alleviating poverty to consolidate the strong achievements registered in the last 10 years of reconstruction of the economy. Despite the impact of the global financial crisis, Rwanda’s economy has been resilient growing by 6 percent last year. Ministry of
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – Video surveillance cameras have been installed in public and private places all over Israel and around the world to monitor crimes and accidents and to promote security around the clock. But going over the reams of images takes a great deal of manpower and is very time consuming.Now Hebrew University researchers have
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
BBC – Europe’s Smos mission is slowly but surely meeting the challenge of measuring soil moisture and ocean salinity from space. The satellite, launched late last year, is attempting to make global maps of these two important parameters using an innovative detection technique. Its sole instrument, an 8m-wide interferometric radiometer, gives Smos the look of
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) will finish building within weeks the first phase of a 2.7 square km offshore port in Taweelah, part of the emirate’s largest infrastructure project.The initial phase of Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) will open in late 2012 but later phases will not be fully completed for
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
JAKARTA POST – At the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference, the Indonesian and Norway governments had signed a partnership agreement on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) with an immediate two-year moratorium. The deal signed with Norway aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions earnings worth US$1 billion. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged that
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
ARECA – A common theory, is that, we as landowners, own everything “from the centre of the earth to heavens.” This may, or may not apply based on the concept of reasonable usage. Landowners own the surface of the land and the airspace above the surface, to the point where they can no longer prove
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The world’s first floating nuclear power plant will be set afloat on Wednesday. The plant will be operational in the Russian Arctic by the end of 2012. The solemn ceremony marking the launching of the plant will take place at the Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg on Wednesday June 30, reports the
