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Korea subsidy row sees telcos threatened with tougher sanctions
2014-03-06 01:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
ICT minister calls on carriers to compete via improved technology, overseas expansion.
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Is Europe's gas supply threatened by the Ukraine crisis?
2014-03-03 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Last December, Ukraine's now-deposed, pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych abandoned a trade deal with the European Union in favour of closer ties with Russia. One of the sweeteners in the $20bn support package that helped persuade him was a steep discount around 30% on the price that Russia's gas giant, Gazprom, was then charging Ukraine for the natural gas on which it relies. This weekend, as relations between the two countries descended to an alarming new low, Moscow warned that the cut-price...
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Massive desert solar plant opens, already a threatened species
2014-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The day begins early at the Ivanpah solar power plant. Long before the sun rises, computers aim five square miles of mirrors to reflect the first rays of dawn onto one of three 40-story towers rising above the desert floor. The 356,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door, focus so much light on the towers that they pulsate with a blinding white light. Also Sacrificing the desert to save the Earth After a building boom, solar energy's prospects now aren't as sunny Saving desert tortoises...
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Cambodia Apparel Exports Threatened by Social Unrest (Country Report)
2014-01-16 20:36:48| EmergingTextiles.com
Cambodia's apparel exports surged in 2013, but repeated riots and strikes, and a new rise of the minimum wage may benefit rival Vietnam. Our statistical tables provide a comprehensive view of latest export trends with detailed EU and US import data per category of products.
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Brazil's Amazon conservation project threatened by loggers and landowners
2014-01-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Sister Angela Sauzen exudes energy and determination. A Brazilian nun of German extraction, she has made a real difference to progressive causes in Latin America over the past half-century. Peasant farmers laughingly say she never takes "no" for an answer. When the Guardian met her in September, she was excited about a project she was helping peasant farmers to develop as an alternative to destructive slash-and-burn agriculture. Like the farmers, Sauzen was having to learn about budgets, quality...
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