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Rescuers Focus on Remote Areas as China Quake Toll at 89 |
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Rescuers in south-western China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by back-to-back earthquakes that killed at least 89 people and damaged many thousands of buildings, state media reported said.
Shallow 5.6 magnitude quakes struck an impoverished, mountainous part of the country with poor infrastructure and communications on Friday and the death toll could rise as news trickled in from cut-off areas, the Xinhua news agency said.
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'Green Bullet' Innovations To Address Soaring Population And Climate Change |
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By Laurie Goering,
In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged for more than two weeks.
In Kenya's Kibera slum, poor urban families are turning around their diets and incomes just by learning to grow vegetables in sack gardens outside their doors.
And in India, a push to help marginalized rural communities gain title to their land is leading to a significant drop in hunger.
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Asia-Pacific Makes Big Gains Against Poverty, but Slow to Reduce Hunger, Child and Maternal Deaths |
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The Asia-Pacific region has made big gains in reducing poverty and is moving fast towards other development goals, but still has high levels of hunger as well as child and maternal mortality, said a new report released here today.
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Fukushima Meltdown: Six Months After |
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By James Tulloch,
An aerial view of the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on March 24, 2011, nearly two weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. (Source: Reuters)
Allianz News- Although the situation in Fukushima appears to have stabilized, conflicting reports about the reactor meltdowns and radiation contamination raise questions about what really happened, and what happens next.
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Judicial Social Engineering in China Ignites Firestorm |
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 World Affairs journal-Seeking to save marriage in China, the Supreme People’s Court recently struck a nerve in society, creating consternation among women and joy among men. China’s highest judicial organ issued its “Third Interpretation Concerning Certain Issues Relating to the Marriage Law of the People’s Republic of China” and demonstrated why judicial social engineering often fails.
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