Friday, August 5th, 2011
The platform for the Danish – Chinese cooperation is the Ministry’s “STRATEGY – knowledge-based collaboration between Denmark and China”. The vision of the strategy is ”… that Denmark and China will grow to be close partners in the knowledge area in the coming years. This will lay the groundwork for adding value to the Danish and
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Chairman Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Shakeel Durring has said that 12 new hydro power projects were discussed in Pakistan-China Joint Energy Working Group (JEWG) meetings that concluded on August 2. Out of the 12 projects, WAPDA has six, while the remaining three will be setup by the private sector, Durrani said in an
Friday, August 5th, 2011
The notion that climate change can present business opportunities is old news. The debate is moving on. With unprecedented private and public sector funds pouring into environmental projects around the world, business leaders are asking which country is leading the green economy race and which markets offer the most attractive returns at least risk. While the
Friday, August 5th, 2011
A committee of experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has agreed that five German beech forests should be declared World Heritage Sites. The committee said they were of “outstanding universal value.” The forests are in the states of Mecklenburg-Pomerania (Jasmund and Müritz National Parks), Brandenburg (Grumsiner Forest), Thuringia (Hainich National Park) and
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
As per report, ThyssenKrupp, French naval shipyard DCNS and the two governments plan to hold talks after the summer break to revive the idea of creating a pan-European military shipbuilding alliance. ThyssenKrupp said that its marine systems division was not holding any talks currently with DCNS on the merger of their marine shipbuilding operations. It added
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
NYSE Euronext announced today that it is making the entire company carbon neutral. Building on its existing energy efficiency and conservation efforts, the company announced today that it has purchased renewable-energy certificates and carbon offsets that together neutralize the remaining environmental impact of the company’s global operations, making it the only global exchange operator and
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
There’s not much business in making gadgets for archaeologists, but that has not stopped the modern day Indiana Jones types from adapting the tools of other trades for their painstaking explorations of ancient cities, battlefields and burial grounds. Their latest triumph comes from hacking Microsoft’s Kinect gaming device to create a handheld 3-D scanner capable
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Australia laid out a vision Thursday to join the handful of countries with high-speed rail lines, saying the up to 108 billion Australian dollars (US$116.16 billion) project in its eastern states could ease bottlenecks on its transport network as its population surges. The federal government said the rail link would be capable of carrying 54 million
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
GE has signed a deal to provide 228 wind turbines and the accompanying operations and maintenance services for Wind Capital Group’s projects in Oklahoma and Kansas. This pair of projects will provide more than 350 megawatts of reliable, clean renewable energy for the Midwestern US and create jobs and economic stimulus for local landowners and
Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Vertical City Asia is a new international design competition in which student teams of ten international universities will focus the urban design of a one square kilometer territory of an Asian city. This year’s edition focused on one square kilometer of Chengdou. This area, to house 100,000 people living and working, sets the stage for
