The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a loan of $100 million to the People's Republic of China to help improve the water supply and manage wastewater in a major urban area of Anhui Province - around 400 kilometers west of Shanghai in the east of the country
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Bari, 25 July (AKI) - For the first time in the world, scientists at Bari University in the southern region of Puglia have cultivated the larvae or eggs that may make it possible to save the species and enable commercial...
"Either you're on the bus or you're off the bus," was the hackneyed statement proposed to me by three members of Dartmouth College's Big Green Bus; an ex-diesel goes veggie 37' foot school bus. My hometown San Francisco weekend...
GENEVA -- European Union and U.S. trade negotiators achieved a minor breakthrough at the World Trade Organization summit, persuading Brazil to accept a compromise proposal on agricultural and industrial goods. The Latin...
By CHRISTINA CHIN and ANDREA FLMER GEORGE TOWN: The state’s three-day Unesco World Heritage Site listing celebration got off to a “healthy” start with Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng leading a group for a walkabout in the city's...