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Malaysia

The swirl of rumour, assertion and denials which has long surrounded Malaysia's Bakun Dam continues despite Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed's late-1997 announcement of the project's indefinite

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Matters of the heart

Medical science promises a new lease of life to all potential heart transplant patients

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Tibet

The Yamdrok Tso pumped-storage hydroelectric plant has become fully operational from late 1997, reports the World Rivers Review . Situated 120 km from the country's capital Lhasa, on the banks

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Mother s milk

Mothers should breast-feed their babies for at least the first year as

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AFGHAN QUAKE

A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan's remote northeastern region early this month, killing 4,000 people. The quake hit Rustaq, a city 280 km north of Kabul. Early reports said that over

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Complete dressing

An "intelligent bandage' that will administer antibiotics only when required has been developed by Japanese researchers. The bandage contains antibiotic molecules hooked up with a peptide attached to

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BANGLADESH GET AID

The World Bank (WB) is to provide financial assistance to Bangladesh for tackling the growing menace of arsenic poisoning in this tiny southeast Asian nation. A programme is expected to be

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Shapeshifters

Metallic alloys and polymers that can change their shapes at will... that s the future

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IN FOCUS

Shrimp farming is not as bad as earlier thought, says a study sponsored by the Indian Council for Agricultural Research. Aquaculture has neither increased the salinity of land nor caused large-scale

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Defenders of the earth

Zap! And another pollutant bites the dust

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