The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
President, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI Sultan Ahmed Chawla) and Chairman Pakistan-Turkey Business Council, Amjad Rafi Thursday welcomed the installation of first wind power generation plant by Turkish Company, Zorlu Energy, which was launched by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday. While lauding the role …
Greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations rose by nearly one percent in 2007, led by strong gains in the United States, official data showed. Carbon emissions from countries signed up to the Kyoto Protocol climate pact edged up by 0.1 percent in 2007, mainly due to rises in Japan and …
General Electric unit GE Wind, a maker of wind turbines, expects to return to double-digit growth rates in 2010, after being flat in 2009, the head of GE Wind's German business said on Tuesday. GE Wind's European business is expected to double this year thanks to the launch of new …
Pakistan and Iran are said to have agreed to resolve the disputes on gas pipeline project in accordance with the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), sources in Petroleum Ministry told Business Recorder. The two countries are expected to trim the Gas Sale Purchase Agreement (GSPA), possibly during …
Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf told a press conference on Wednesday that the country's first ever windmill project in Jhimpir, Sindh, will become functional on April 19. This would mark an important beginning towards power production from alternative sources of energy. Built by a Turkish company, …
Turkey yesterday expressed interest in constructing elevated expressway in Dhaka and making investment in Bangladesh in larger volumes in various development sectors. Turkish Ambassador in Bangladesh Sakir Ozlan Torunlar conveyed his government's willingness when he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Prime Minister's Office in …
Turkey expressed interest in constructing elevated expressway in Dhaka and making investment in Bangladesh in larger volumes in various development sectors. The Turkish ambassador in Dhaka Sakir Ozlan Torunlar conveyed his government
Sri Lanka government is to take legal action against the Turkey Shipping Company, the owners of the sunken tanker with a load of sulphuric acid off Trincomalee Harbour. Ranjith Kularatne, Chairman of the Marine Environmental Protection Authority said the legal action would be taken due to the marine pollution caused …
Billed in the run-up as the largest water event of all time, the fifth World Water Forum drew to a close in Istanbul on 22 March 2009. Altogether more than 25,000 people from 150 countries took part in the huge week-long event. By no means did it live up to …
They travelled from China to Turkey and then to Siberia, where they might have resettled TEN thousand years ago, the tiger reigned over Eurasia from the Sunda Islands of Indonesia to India to eastern Turkey and up north into Siberia. Environmental changes and human influence drove some of its subspecies
The modern tiger (Panthera tigris) is believed to have originated from East and Southeast Asia about two million years ago. This correlates with the family tree of the current study which shows the South China tiger is the oldest subspecies. The first subspecies to be given a scientific name was …
Turkish investors are keen to invest in alternative energy projects and a Turkish company, Zorlu Energi, will invest some $500 million in windmill project, said Fethi Etem, Consul General of Turkey. Addressing the launching ceremony of advisory service of Escorts Investment Bank Limited of Turkey in Karachi, he said that …
ISTANBUL: The 5th World Water Forum, the largest water-related event in the world, concluded in Turkey on Sunday, or the World Water Day, with firm commitments of tackling global water challenges jointly in the context of sustainable development. The forum, organized every three years by World Water Council ( WWC) …
An already under-funded sector vital to growth, says World Bank ISTANBUL: The global economic crisis threatens to shrink investment in water infrastructure, an already under-funded sector vital to growth and public health, said the World Bank on Tuesday. Jamal Saghir, Director of Energy, Transport and Water at the World Bank, …
Turkey's parliament yesterday approved its membership of the Kyoto protocol, the United Nations-led pact to combat global warming, the Anatolian news agency said. Turkey announced its intention to sign the accord in June, after years of delays because of concerns about the cost. Reuters, Istanbul
Q& A Turkey is one of the few secular democracies in the Islamic world. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, walks the thin line separating the Turkish state
The seventh session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 7) was held in Istanbul, Turkey back to back with the First Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST), from 3 to 14 November 2008, at the invitation of the Government …
Honey samples, collected from the Southern Marmara region of Turkey, were analysed for erythromycin residues by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry using electrospray ionization in the positive ion mode (LC-ESI-MS). Fifty samples, comprising chestnut, pine, linden and multi-flower honeys, were collected directly from hives and analyzed. The limit of detection and quantification …
Robert Tait Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lambasted environmentalists as "idle,' saying they "prance around' doing nothing to protect nature. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
