Israel announced during the Basel Convention negotiations in Malaysia its intention to import hazardous wastes from industrialized countries and become a major waste management center to the region.
China continues to be a predominantly rural country, despite rapid growth and structural transformation of its economy in the recent past, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said during a
A group of 20 anti-smoking activists and self described nicotine addicts filed a class action suit against a Japanese affiliate of the U.S. tobacco giant Philip Morris Co., demanding it stop sales
The top executives of the major tobacco companies have told the US Senate that they would never agree to modify their advertising and marketing practices unless the lawmakers gave the industry
The European Union is preparing a critical response to US proposals to reform the way internet addresses are administered, warning that they would leave control of the computer network too firmly in
With forest fires in Indonesia threatening to cast another pall of smoke borne pollution over Southeast Asia, officials in the region appealed for international aid to help prevent a recurrence of
Four years ago, Dr. Daniel Cohen dazzled the scientific world when his Paris lab roughed out the first comphrehensive map of all human chormosomes. This year, he will complete a far more detailed
A Technique originally devised to test aeroplane turbines are being adapted to help surgeons perform a particularly intricate type of eye operation. The technique was developed by the University of
Goran Lindahl, chief executive of ABB, the international engineering group, is expected to try to counter the growing criticism of his strategy to chasing big low margin hydro-electric dam contracts
Panama's dry season might be good news for the cruise liners that pass through the waters of the Panama Canal at this time of year. But commercial shippers, commodity dealers and the canal
