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Myanmar setting up global positioning system for earthquake monitoring
Kyaikto :: Myanmar | about 1 hour ago
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With the help of the Earth Observatory of Singapore, the project is being implemented in the four cities of Kyaikto, Wal, Bago and Taikgyi lying on the country's main live fault diagonally, the sources said. Inwa Amarapura (8.0 on the Richter scale) in...
Tags: Myanmar, myanmar set, global positioning, Kyaikto, Environment, Burma, Indian Ocean, Tsunami, Earthquake engineering, Earthquake, Disaster Accident, Warning systems, Indian Ocean earthquake
SOUTH AFRICA: School a refuge from xenophobia
Durban :: South Africa | about 19 hours ago
Credibility During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds. "Local pupils are very friendly. We talk and joke...
Tags: Claireville Primary, foreign learner, IRIN, Durban, South Africa, Afrikaans, EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, Indian Ocean, Education, Social Issues
Durban bus strike soon?
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 24 hours ago
Credibility Transnat Africa CEO Mike Jesserman said it was given the contract to run the service four months ago. "Three months down the line we are still finalising the terms and conditions of the contract. All of that should have been finalised three months ago,"...
Tags: South Africa, Cape Town, EThekwini, The Mercury, Mercury, Durban, EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, Indian Ocean
The Big Five: Stadiums could become white elephants
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 24 hours ago
Credibility The "white elephant" spectre is one that has come to haunt World Cup and Olympic Games hosts. A little over a year after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games China is struggling to find a real purpose for its 450-million-dollar showpiece Bird's Nest stadium,...
Tags: world cup, South Africa, Cape Town, Moses Mabhida Stadium, Nelspruit Mpumalanga, Mbombela Stadium, Kings Park Stadium, Johannesburg, Indian Ocean, National stadiums, FIFA World Cup, allnews, Pretoria, Rustenburg North West, Durban, Human Interest, FIFA World Cup schedule, Security guard, Police, Danny Jordaan, Crime prevention, Security, Surveillance
Supervolcano eruption in Sumatra deforested India 73,000 years ago
Nuuk :: Greenland | 1 day ago
Credibility In a new study, scientists have come across what they call "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter. The...
Tags: Toba, Indian Ocean, carbonates isotope, Stanley Ambrose, central india, toba eruption, Greenland, Nuuk, Lake Toba, Supervolcanoes, Volcano, Types of volcanic eruptions, Toba catastrophe theory, Igneous rocks, Volcanology, Plate tectonics, Environment
Senate body expresses concern over slow pace o ...
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 1 day ago
Credibility The Senate Standing Committee on Communications, which met at the Parliament House today under the Chairmanship of Senator Wali Muhammad Badini discussed and reviewed various options taken up in a meeting of the Sub-Committee held on 29th September, 2009...
Tags: Committee, Liyari Expressway ISLAMABAD, NHA, slow pace, early completing, Pakistan, Islamabad, Ethnic groups in Pakistan, Turbat, Balochistan, Malaysian Expressway System, National Highway Authority, Gwadar, Gwadar District, Indian Ocean
Red alert at Gujarat's Kandla oil terminal
Mumbai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility We have been put on high alert," KS Rao, senior terminal manager of IOC at Kandla, told DNA on Sunday. "We received a terror alert from our headquarters which was warned by the Union home ministry that the LeT might attack the Kandla oil terminal."...Rao...
Tags: Kandla, oil terminal, oil companies, India, Mumbai, War Conflict, Indian Ocean, Business Finance
Gwadar Port Authority
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 2 days ago
Credibility Why a junior non-Baloch official has been made the Gwadar Port chairman by superseding senior Baloch officers?� asked Senator Hasil Bizenjo while talking to this correspondent on phone. �The rulers are not serious in resolving the Baloch issue and the...
Tags: Balochistan National Party-Awami, Dr Malik Baloch, Ghulam Farooq Baloch, gwadar ports, Gwadar Port Authority, federal government, ports authority, senior baloch, Pakistan, Karāchi, Iranian Plateau, Gwadar, Indian Ocean, National Party, Balochistan, Ethnic groups in Pakistan, Gwadar District, Divided regions, Politics
Farm labourers may get rice at Rs.2 a kg
Alappuzha :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility The State government is contemplating distribution of rice at Rs.2 a kg to all agriculture workers irrespective of whether they hold Above Poverty Line or Below Poverty Line ration cards, Finance Minister T.M...Inaugurating the State-level distribution...
Tags: farm workers, retirement benefits, India, Alappuzha, Kuttanad, Welfare, Politics, Alappuzha district, Indian Ocean, Social Issues
History Department Chair William Pinch
New Delhi :: India | 4 days ago
Credibility He sat down with The Argus to discuss some of his favorite books, Bollywood films, and his resemblance to Jeff Bridges...I became chair of the department over the summer, and one of my colleagues gave me a copy of a book that I had to read about being...
Tags: Indian Ocean, North India, Mrs. Gandhi, Indian National Army, Calcutta Chromosome, department chair, New Delhi, history department, chair william, interesting books, India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Tolstoyans, Indira Gandhi, Bollywood, Entertainment Culture, Indian independence activists, Ascetics, Gujarati people
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