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Monday, January 24th, 2011

Gambia – Principal Lands Surveyor Summoned

Hamidou Jallow, principal lands surveyor at the Department of Lands and Survey has been summoned by the Lands Commission to clear doubts about the state of files containing list of leased lands and their detailed contacts from the year 2005 to date. Read More

Monday, January 24th, 2011

Five Ruhr Cities Vie for ‘green’ Makeover

The goal of the “InnovationCity Ruhr” project isn’t to create a model green city from scratch. Its agenda is perhaps even more ambitious: It aims to take an existing city – with all of its industrial facilities, green spaces, swathes of fallow land and neighborhoods both old and new – and reshape it along more sustainable lines.

Friday, January 21st, 2011

HCM City Agency Promotes Green Awareness

A programme organised by HCM City’s Environmental Protection Agency saw around 1.25 million people joining various community-based environmental protection activities and several hundred thousands more increasing their environmental awareness in the last five years. “Environmental protection has become a duty of everybody,” Nguyen Van Hong, deputy director of the city Department of Natural Resources and

Friday, January 21st, 2011

New Mine to Offer Thousands of UK Jobs

Up to 5,000 jobs could be created in Whitby and district after plans were revealed to open the first UK Potash mine in 40 years. Mineral rights between Whitby and Scarborough were sold on Sunday to Sirius Minerals, which specialises in potash exploration and development and has three potash projects already in Australia and the USA.

Friday, January 21st, 2011

New Science Centre Given the Royal Seal of Approval

The Duke of York spoke of the benefits of engineers and academics working closely together as he officially opened Strathclyde University’s new multi-million-pound research centre that will develop cutting-edge techniques for the aerospace industry. Based at Inchinnan in Renfrewshire, the Advance Forming Research Centre is a collaboration between the university, Scottish Enterprise and engineering companies.

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Symposium and Vocational Training Within the Framework of GI_Forum

This year Learning with GI is focused on “Implementing Digital Earth in education”. The digital earth vision has become reality in terms of technology, allowing for a multiplicity of applications in education and communication. Education should therefore provide reasonable opportunities to acquire competences that students can use to effectively participate in GISociety. We invite you

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Madrid Exceeds EU’s Legal Limit on Pollution

Madrid last year exceeded the legal limit of contamination set by the EU with an annual average of 44 micrograms of suspended particles of less than 10 micrometers, or PM10, four micrograms over the continental watershed. Read More

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Eindhoven Rated One of the ‘top seven’ Intelligent Communities

Eindhoven and the other six were chosen from a list of 21 by a team of academics. They describe the Eindhoven metropolitan area as ‘the industrial heart of the Netherlands’, pointing out it the number of business start-ups has grown 275% over 10 years and it is among the top three regions in Europe for

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Energy Cooperation Between Norway and Britain

Norway and Britain have signed a partnership document agreeing to work together on oil and gas exploration, on the development of offshore wind farms and on a North Sea power grid. The agreement was signed by British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg, following a summit meeting meeting in London on Wednesday, with leaders

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

German Government Plans Radical Railroad Reform

In the wake of winter-related chaos on Germany’s railroad system, Transportation Minister Peter Ramsauer is planning far-reaching reforms to the national railway operator Deutsche Bahn. More money will be made available for infrastructure investment, and a long-planned privatization of the company looks likely to be watered down. Read More

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