Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
REUTERS – China has ordered quality checks on barreled water around the country after polluted water made more than 200 people sick, newspapers said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
RIA NOVOSTI – Russia will use the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan until 2050, the head of the Russian space agency said Saturday. "The Russian president has set the task to use the Baikonur space center in full until 2050. We have approved of the proposal," Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Federal Space Agency,
Friday, January 25th, 2008
FAROE ISLANDS – Mr Jóannes Eidesgaard, the Prime Minister of the Faroes, signed an agreement on the establishment of boundaries for the continental shelf area beyond 200 nautical miles north of the Faroes. Read More
Monday, December 24th, 2007
NEW EUROPE – The state-owned energy group Vattenfall has made improvements in introducing more renewable energy sources as instructed by government, a report from government officials said. Since the 2004 review by the Swedish National Audit Office, Vattenfall’s measures have had an impact on internal control and reporting,” Lennart Grufberg of the National Audit Office
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
THE STREET – Barclays has come out with a new exchange-traded fund, the iShares S&P Global Infrastructure Index Fund, that is definitely worth considering.Infrastructure is an asset class that has interested me for some time. I believe it is crucial that a diversified portfolio have some exposure to toll roads and airports around the world
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY – The future economic costs of climate change — known as the costs of inaction — will be significant in Europe, says a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report, released today.The report, Climate change: the cost of inaction and the cost of adaptation, looks at the economic costs of climate change (impacts)
Sunday, November 11th, 2007
THE LOCAL SWEDEN – In the early years of the 20th century, Sweden was full of architectural creativity and innovation. Architect Rahel Belatchew Lerdell argues that it is high time for Stockholm to rediscover some of the curiosity that once led to the construction of Europe’s first skyscrapers. Read More
Friday, November 9th, 2007
THE BALTIC TIMES – A plan to modernize and link up Lithuania’s railways to those of the rest of the Baltic countries – along with its Eastern and Western European neighbors – is slowly moving towards reality. The project is called Rail Baltica. Set for completion in 2013, it’s one of the largest of the
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Under existing government policies, U.S. biofuel subsidies are expected to collectively reach $92 billion between 2006-2012, according to an updated report released on Oct. 23 from an arm of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Read More
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
icWALES – Investors and foreign farmers buy up Welsh land as prices rise 21%. Rural land prices have reached record heights. The latest rural land market survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows that they continued to climb during the first half of the year to reach the highest levels in the survey’s
