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BANGLADESH: Garment sector confronts worst industrial accident
2013-04-25 14:30:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
In what is likely to be the worst ever industrial accident in Bangladesh, the death toll at the collapsed Rana Plaza building in Savar has risen to more than 150 - and casts another shadow over the country's apparel and clothing industries.
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Amid Drought, Water Board in New Mexico Confronts State Over Supply
2013-04-10 02:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A small water agency in southern New Mexico has moved to force state agencies that control water distribution to deprive some users of their supplies. The local agency, the Carlsbad Irrigation District, or C.I.D., acted to ensure that its alfalfa farmers receive the supplemental deliveries to which they say they are entitled. The irrigation district voted unanimously last week to make what is known as a priority call on the Pecos River, a move that could force New Mexicos Office of the State...
China confronts a new problem: obesity
2013-02-10 13:47:45| Beverages - Topix.net
Older people in China remember the Great Famine of 1958-61, when 15 million to 45 million people died of hunger and related causes.
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Feeding its people, India also confronts huge climate change challenge
2013-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: India has to find a new model of development if the twin challenges of job creation and climate change are to be met, says an Oxford University academic, Barbara Harriss-White, of the Oxford Department of International Development. "At present economic development in India is looked at very much in terms of catching up with Europe and East Asia", says Professor Harriss-White, a South Asia expert and part of an Oxford-based team investigating greenhouse gas emissions in India's informal economy...
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China confronts problem of obesity
2013-01-01 10:24:46| Beverages - Topix.net
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