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PATA meet on eco-tourism ends

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25/01/1998

Ideas took the shape of business language at the 10th annual conference and mart of Pacific Asia Travel Association(PATA), which concluded here today with a majority of the 300 delegates from across

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NGO to undertake project on vehicle pollution control

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25/01/1998

A pilot project on vehicle pollution control is to be undertaken by a non-governmental organisation, Nature Soule (Saviour of Unpolluted Life on Earth) from January 27.

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GREEN WATCHDOG

The Supreme Court recently cleared the constitution of a five-member environmental protection authority (EPA) by the central government. A three-judge bench observed that the authority for the

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24/01/1998
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Calls for fish controls after poisoning spate

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24/01/1998

Fifty cases of food poisoning in two weeks have been reported among people eating large coral reef fish. Scientists blamed the Hong Kong govrernment, slamming a lack of control over the huge and

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Driving Britain off the roads

More cars, more houses. Official predictions suggest that Britain faces a future of rising congestion and pollution as more countryside disappears under concrete and tarmac : a

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24/01/1998
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Miners ruling may cost $1.6bn

The UK government faces compensation bill approaching $1.6bn after British Coal lost a land mark High Court case brought by six former miners suffering from respiratory diseases caused by coal

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24/01/1998
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ADB extends US $50m loan

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24/01/1998

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has extended a concessional loan of US Dollar 50 million to the Nepalese Government for its effort to reform the stagnant agricultural

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PCB given liberty to re-start dyeing units

The Green Bench of the Madras High Court on Thursday gave liberty to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to permit 434 dyeing and bleaching units in Karur town, which were among the 606 units

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24/01/1998
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Buying a gulp of the Colorado

The basin of the Colorado River covers 244,000 square miles of territory and provides water to 25m people, 16m in California alone. So much importance is attached to the distribution of the river's

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24/01/1998
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Under the influence

ZymeTx, a biotechnology company has developed, and recently obtained official approval for, a kit that can tell whether your sore throat and running nose really are the result of a virus or whether

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24/01/1998
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