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New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...are widely viewed as pillars of the community, and authorities took 12 years to get their first conviction. "Ou...evelopment Renuka Chowdhury, the data would permit authorities to focus efforts on areas with a large gap between the number of pregnancies recorded and births. ...

Seven Children Ordered Removed from Squalid Home in Texas

... children removed from their home in Lubbock after authorities discovered it was infested with rats and filled with garbage, including stacks of dirty diapers nearly 4 feet high in closets. Authorities went to the dilapidated house after the 26-year-old Gloria Ramirez called a funeral home seeking a casket for...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

...ts live in poverty, may be sitting on a gold mine, authorities are now launching a bid to win international recognition as the stevia plant's country of origin....

Groundwater Levels Depleting Alarmingly in India

Water authorities of India say there is an alarming depletion of ground water levels in the country and are proposing a model legislation to prevent further erosion of water table. The Central Groundwater Board has carried out a survey to find out the ground water ...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

... one of the countries hit hardest by HIV/AIDS, the authorities are concerned that discrimination is helping the virus spread. "It is difficult for us since stigma causes infected people not to speak out and this quietly spreads the infection," said Ly Peng Sun, deputy director of the National Centre for HIV/AI...

China Closing in on US for Highest Number of Web-users

...as slaves in two Chinese provinces that some local authorities had been complicit in. A letter posted on the Internet by 400 parents of children working as slaves in brickyards was the trigger for the national press to finally report on the scandal that some rights groups say had been happening for years. Pr...

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

Health authorities of Ukraine are not taking any chances. Following an atmosphere poisoning of ignited yellow phosphorous, they have examined around 16, 000 people for possible symptoms of toxic poisoning. The incident near the Polish border (outside Lviv) wa...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...but the ministry is stalling. It is such reputed authorities who are being rubbished by the MoEF as lay persons who have no business to tell it what it should do and what it should not. Any activity which requires the diversion of forest land for non-forest use must first be cleared by the MoEF. This is clea...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...ek said it had received the go-ahead from Nigerian authorities before administering the drug. A lawyer for Pfizer, Afe Babalola, said the withdrawal of the earlier suit reflected the weakness of the government's case. "It's unfortunate that the rules of the court permit them to withdraw without the case bein...

Drink-drivers Not Influenced by Ads Unless It Affects Them Personally

...ving ban can damage an individuals own life. The authorities have began a television advertising campaign focused on young men who are more than 10 times as likely to have a drink-drive crash than men aged over 30. But these public service announcements do not use any material that may be intended to shock aud...

Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak

...tal Freetown last year has been contained, health authorities said Friday. A senior health worker attributed the fall in rabies cases to a massive vaccination campaign carried out by veterinary officials. Doctors at the main referral Connaught Hospital are worried about a lack of rabies antidotes to combat d...

You Need Blood? Just Click the Mouse!

...rs to procure blood, they can contact the hospital authorities from the coupons on which our contact numbers will be provided along with a scratch out one-time secret code. The patient or their relatives can contact us and read out the code numbers," said Poacha....

Government Mulls Closure of Hospital Where a Woman Died Unattended in ER

...a typically bureaucratic reaction, the Californian authorities have said they could consider closing down a hospital at the centre of national outrage over a woman who was left to die on the floor of the emergency room. The Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor hospital, operated by the Los Angeles County departme...

China Toothpaste Maker Pulls Suspect Ingredient

... with kidney or liver disease. On Monday Hong Kong authorities warned the public to stop using three brands of toothpaste containing DEG, including White Cat's Maxam and two other brands called Sanqi and Tianqi. The action was the latest after the United States, New Zealand, Singapore, Panama and several other L...

Sierra Leone Contains Rabies Outbreak

...ital Freetown last year has been contained, health authorities said Friday . A senior health worker attributed the fall in rabies cases to a massive vaccination campaign carried out by veterinary officials. Doctors at the main referral Connaught Hospital are worried about a lack of rabies antidotes to combat d...

Vietnam Bird Flu Death a Call for Action, Say Experts

...may bring in 50 ducks and not bother to notify the authorities that there's another 150 (needing vaccination) sti...a in 2004 and 2005, when 42 people were killed and authorities culled more than 50 million head of poultry. No new outbreaks were reported for 12 months, until fre...

Toxic Algae Pose New Health Scare in China

...tion, according to government figures. This month, authorities ordered towns around Taihu to shut down all polluting factories and meet new water emission standards by the end of June 2008....

China to Curtail Organ Sale

Chinese authorities have drafted new rules to dissuade erring doctors and hospitals involved in human organ trade . This move comes amidst widespread criticisms of the organs being sourced from death-row prisoners and, acts as a booster to an existing ban, which pro...

Thirty One Kids Rescued from a Pedophile Ring

...ssed on to the child protection center by Canadian authorities in August 2006. The center is an agency under the ...U.S.-based online pedophile ring shut down by U.S. authorities in March 2006, Gamble said. Forensic teams examining Cox's computer found 75,960 indecent and expli...

World's Oldest Man Says Sorry He's Still Alive

...s the oldest man on Earth and contacted Miyakonojo authorities earlier this month to verify Tanabe's birthdate. More than 28,000 Japanese are at least 100 years old, most of them women, according to the government. The Japanese people's renowned longevity is often attributed to eating the country's traditional...

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