22 Mar 10 -
BAD water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). The devastating earthquake in Haiti last January claimed the lives of more than...
20 Mar 10 -
DENSE clouds of migrating monarch butterflies used to snap branches and cast shadows across the forests of central Mexico, but severe weather is posing a new threat to the annual phenomenon. The yearly 2,000-mile (3,200 km) journey,...
19 Mar 10 -
A NEW salt-resistant paddy — BRRI Dhan 47 — is offering hope to coastal farmers in southern Bangladesh whose crops are affected by climate change, say experts. Thousands of small-scale rice farmers have seen their livelihoods...
18 Mar 10 -
INSPIRED by Jeff Han, who heralded a new era by creating a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface, a Bruneian teacher come up with his own version multi-touch table. Hj Mazleadifirdaus, a teacher at Sekolah Rendah Benutan Tutong...
17 Mar 10 -
BATTLING the pain from a boil on his left thigh, 45-year-old Inggit Tukino pulled his two-wheeled cart through the overcrowded alleys of a slum in Rawabebek, Penjaringan hamlet in here North Jakarta. "Garbage, garbage!" he...
16 Mar 10 -
AS BARTENDERS close the shutters in Tokyo's glitzy nightlife district, just a short walk away handbells ring in the pre-dawn tuna auctions in an old warehouse in Tsukiji. Veteran auctioneers call for bids for hundreds of snap-frozen tuna...
15 Mar 10 -
BIOLOGISTS yesterday said they had found a potential superweapon in a long-running arms race with bacteria that threaten essential crops. Tested in a lab, their technique entails inserting a gene kit into a plant so that its immune system...
13 Mar 10 -
INDIA has switched on its first public air purifier in the heart of capital New Delhi as part of an experiment that backers say could help other smog-choked cities in emerging countries. The maker of the seven-ton machine, Italy's...
12 Mar 10 -
LARGE-SCALE recycling may have only started in the late 1990s in Taiwan, but given the way it has become part of everyday life, the casual observer could easily conclude it has been occurring here for considerably longer. Landfills were...
11 Mar 10 -
IT GIGGLES and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly baby-bot looks unearthly with a pair of...
