The head of the un Security Council sanctions committee has praised the Liberian government for its efforts to regulate diamond and timber trades in line with a ban imposed on them by the world
All canned fish products with false information on packaging labels are to be taken off the shelves, the Thailand Food and Drug Administration (fda) recently said. The action was prompted by a
Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and a few other cities are facing a cement shortage that has led to a sudden increase in cement prices even though cement production is thriving in the country. The
Europe's leading food safety agency has approved five genetically modified (gm) crops and foods that were banned in certain European Union (eu) countries claiming they posed no threat to human or
The cleaning up of a toxic waste site discovered in the Tuzla district of Istanbul, Turkey, was suspended temporarily due to a gas leak. Hundreds of barrels, suspected to contain carcinogens, were
what a waste: For the past two months, 11-year-old Tsheten Dorji is being treated for third-degree burns he received from chemical waste dumped by factories in Balujhora in Bhutan's Pasakha town.
The New Zealand government recently okayed a move to relocate a population of 250 rare native snails, which were holding up the development of a coalmine. State-owned mining company Solid Energy
To check commercial abuse of assisted reproductive technology (art), China has banned the commercial donation and supply of human eggs and tightened its control over sperm banks. New rules state that
A us law to ban waste import from Canada has raised fears of a possible trade war between the countries. A bill to ban Canadian waste imports was approved by Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm last
high price: A French court has imposed the highest-ever marine pollution fine of about us $980,000 for a 61-km fuel slick, off the French coast, in 2005. The captain and the owner of the container
