Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
IAAC SPAIN – The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future.The aim of the competition is to promote online discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – A new institution opens in Moscow, backed by a Kremlin-friendly businessman and a leading international architect, which hopes to raise a new generation of thoughtful and tasteful urban planners, and help save the city from architectural Armageddon. Over the past two decades, Russia’s oil wealth has driven a frenzied construction boom in
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
STANDARD KENYA – For a continent where millions of people depend on agriculture for their livelihood, the prospect of depleted soil fertility is bad news. But soils on the continent are fast becoming nutrient deficient with low yields spelling a bleak future for many. Keith Shepherd, a soil scientist with the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
KUWAIT NEWS – The state-run Petrovietnam Oil and Gas Group has decided to give priority to Japanese companies for participation in a total of roughly JPY 3 trillion (USD 33 billion) in infrastructure development projects in Vietnam. Read More
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
SKToday – The crisis management team that held an extraordinary session at the Government Office on Monday identified two areas of Slovakia that are most threatened by heavy rains – the southern part of eastern Slovakia and northern Slovakia. “We took decisions concerning a certain concentration of equipment and personnel that will be available immediately
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – The Finnish Defence Forces are considering the possibility of buying drones for aerial surveillance. The Finnish Army has been in touch with more than ten different manufacturers of unmanned flying aircraft. The Finnish military is interested in buying unarmed drones weighing about ten kg. each, capable of sending live video, and infrared
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
IRISH INDEPENDENT – Agricultural land sales have begun to surge as farmers move to take advantage of the vacuum left in the market by the withdrawal of developers and speculators. The average sale value of farmland has dropped from a high of €20,000/ac in 2007 to between €6,000 and €10,000/ac this year. Read More
Monday, May 24th, 2010
COPENHAGEN POST – Despite last year’s headlines that revealed 190 waterworks facilities nationwide were pumping dangerous coli bacteria into residents’ drinking water, the problem as not got better – in fact, it has become worse. According to 2009 figures from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), 283 water facilities are now guilty of
Monday, May 24th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – The privatization process for the 52 hydroelectric power plants belonging to Electricity Generation Company, or EÜAŞ, which was divided into 19 groups, will be completed on Monday. Read More
Monday, May 24th, 2010
XINHUA – China is developing an independent satellie navigation system called Beidou. It’s the third country after the US and Russia to have such a system developed on its own. At the first China Satellite Navigation Annual Academic Conference in Beijing, the chief designer says the system will cover the whole world by 2020 and
