Solid waste import bans
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced yesterday that China will ban imports of 32 types of solid waste in its latest move to reduce environmental pollution. Sixteen types of solid waste,
Shanghai Daily (China)
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Scientists turn skin cells into heart, brain cells using drugs
U.S. researchers said Thursday they turned skin cells into heart cells and brain cells using just a combination of chemicals, a breakthrough that may lay the foundation for one day regenerating lost or
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Russia becomes world's leading wheat exporter
MOSCOW, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Russia has become the world's leader in the export of wheat, surpassing the United States and Canada, Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said Thursday. "Russia
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Russia launches rocket from newly-built Vostochny Cosmodrome
Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1a space rocket from the newly-built Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region in the early hours of Thursday, TASS news agency reported. The rocket blasted off from
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2 dead, 9 missing in flooded Shaanxi mine
Rescuers have found two miners' bodies in a flooded colliery in Shaanxi Province, but nine remain missing more than 75 hours after the flood. The first body was retrieved from the Zhaojin coal mine
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Thailand tightens up legislation to end illegal ivory trade
Thailand has strengthened the implementation of its National Ivory Action Plan to stop illegal ivory trade, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) disclosed Wednesday. Thailand is stepping up efforts
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S. Korea, U.S. sign space cooperation agreement
SEOUL, April 27 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement on space cooperation to jointly explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes, Seoul's foreign ministry
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Insurance against quake in Nepal still discouraging: report
KATHMANDU, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Despite massive damages caused to individual houses by last year's earthquake in Nepal, there has not been significant rise in insurance coverage of such properties as expected,
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One missing, houses damaged as flash floods, landslides hit western Indonesia
JAKARTA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Flash floods, floods and landslides have struck Jambi province in western Indonesia, leaving one missing and scores of houses and roads damaged, senior official of provincial
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Tornado injures 7 in south China
Seven people were injured when a tornado swept through part of southern China's Guangdong Province on Sunday, authorities said Monday. Four of the injured were taken to hospital around 4:30 pm, after
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Cambodia to register five new forests covering 950,000 hectares as protected areas
PHNOM PENH, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government would soon list five new forests with a total of about 950,000 hectares in the country's protected forest areas, officials said on Monday. Environment