Come the monsoons, the misery of annual floods hits Bangladesh this year the country had to call out the army to battle its worst floods in over 6 years. In mid-July the army moved into the
Japanese researchers have designed an electronic secretary - a computer that can recognise and talk with its owner and perform duties such as taking messages. The ministry of
The Landless Settlers Problem Commission in Kathmandu has attracted the ire of the locals of Nijgadh, Bara, who claim that they have been wrongly treated as landless settlers although they were
Scientists at the Research and Technology Department of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in White Oak, Maryland, have produced high quality insulator films on gallium arsenide semiconductors, a
The South African government is minting money - by selling ostriches. It is now reported to be the biggest ostrich goods producer in the world; and business is booming. The country
Somalia needs International assistance again... this time not to protect it in the throes of a devastating famine but the attack of a swarm of voracious locusts, known as quela. "The farming
The Chilean government is in the line of fire. It is being accused by local environmentalist groups of hold- ing up a private project aimed to save a vast tract of the virgin rainforests, only
When oil seeps into water supplies, it is more of a problem than a solution. But a group of American scientists think otherwise. John Hunter and John Cary of the US Department of Agriculture at
