Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Thursday, March 8th, 2012 UN-REDD Programme Viet Nam is developing two reports, the evaluation report for effectiveness of awareness raising and training, and lesson learned report from activities in particular areas such as Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Benefits Distribution...Lessons from UN-REDD in Vietnam
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system will soon be adding its unique talents to a global search and rescue service. The international satellite rescue system, Cospas-Sarsat, has been making air and sea travel safeter for 30 years and already...
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Japan’s remarkable recovery from last year’s tragic earthquake leaves big lessons unlearned. The economy bounced back more quickly than expected after March’s earthquake, tsunami and resulting nuclear leak. But the government flunked a bigger test by failing...
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Access to secondary education is still a challenge for girls, especially in parts of Africa and Asia, according to a United Nations atlas published today that highlights the differences in education between girls and boys in terms...
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Qualitative changes were made in the cadastre activities. And the citizens could not believe that such high-quality cadastre work was possible in Armenia, PM Tigran Sargsyan said during Wednesday’s Governmental session. In his words, the program being...
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
A very interesting factoid has been revealed in the newly-released iPhoto for iOS: Apple isn’t using Google Maps. More specifically, Apple is using its own mapping technology to provide map tiles in its brand new photo editing app. There have been...
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
The Asian Development Bank has agreed to provide technical assistance to the Philippines for its wind energy development road map. In its Quantum Leap in Wind Power Development in Asia and the Pacific project, the ADB said it...
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Hong Kong-based industrial conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd. managing director and chief executive Manuel V. Pangilinan launched yesterday a multimillion-dollar program that will help Filipino entrepreneurs develop groundbreaking technologies, and transform these into successful commercial products. Read...
