RIGHTS ISSUE: A patent on atta chakkis (flour mills). It sure was unexpected. But it's been granted. The latest victim of the patent rights regime is the Asian traditional knowledge of producing atta. The US patent office has given patent rights to Nebraska-based ConAgra Inc for the "method for producing …
RIGHTS ISSUE: A patent on atta chakkis (flour mills). It sure was unexpected. But it's been granted. The latest victim of the patent rights regime is the Asian traditional knowledge of producing atta. The US patent office has given patent rights to Nebraska-based ConAgra Inc for the "method for producing …
the Balkan war in 1999 has left a deadly impact on North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (nato) soldiers who were deployed in the region. A 14-member team of United Nations Environment Programme found evidence of radioactivity in eight of the eleven sites in Kosovo that was struck with depleted uranium (du) …
yugoslavia faces grave ecological damage after more than three months of warfare as an aftermath of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (nato) bombing , an international humanitarian group was quoted as saying. The Beta news agency said a team of Russian, Austrian, Greek and Swiss experts from the Focus Organisation …
greenpeace said nato 's (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) bombing of Yugoslavia is not only causing widespread pollution in the Balkans but risking a major nuclear accident. "We are concerned about the missiles that keep striking Bulgaria, with some even reaching Sofia,' Stelios Psomas, director of Greenpeace Greece, said in a …
Thousands of people living near the Pancevo industrial zone outside Belgrade have been evacuating their homes for fear that (NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ) strikes may cause an environmental disaster, Serb media said ( Down To Earth , Vol 7 No 24). The state news agency Tanjug said that …
Smoke and flames rise from the fertiliser plant in Pancevo, some 16 kilometers north of Belgrade on April 18, 1999. NATO jets pounded the refinery and a chemical complex in Pancevo as it continued its campaign of airstrikes against Yugoslavia ( see also page 20 )
serb officials have said that strikes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's ( nato) forces on chemical plants and refineries around Belgrade could cause an ecological disaster. Civil defence authorities said they have asked the residents of two districts near the Pancevo industrial complex, northeast of Belgrade, to evacuate. Serb …
Bitter cold and acute food shortages could take a toll of an estimated 30,000 Armenian lives if attempts to open relief corridors through Turkey and Georgia fail, warned President Levon Ter-Petrossian recently. Especially at risk in the nation of 3.5 million are thousands of refugees who fled the fighting in …
YUGOSLAV engineers are working desperately to ease the pressure on a damaged dam in Montenegro, to prevent the release of millions of tonnes of toxic mining sludge into the Danube and other Balkan rivers. Senior officials working on the dam'say the impact would be "disastrous as it would poison the, …
