Thursday, May 26th, 2011
The registry will be kept by Real Property Cadastre and technical inventory center of State Committee on Property Issues. The State Committee states that it is necessary to introduce GIS (geographic information system) and coordination system of...
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
In March, the Philippines filed an official protest with China following a standoff involving forces from both countries in the Reed Bank, just east of the Spratlys. Philippine officials say Chinese patrol boats threatened a survey ship...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Kuala Lampur - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak called for an examination of all houses and other structures erected on agricultural land nationwide to ascertain the risk they faced from landslides. He said Tuesday that...
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Stricken by a severe drought, Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, recently began to shrink severely. According to the latest reports from satellite remote sensing, the current water area of Poyang Lake is 1,326 square...
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Location-based services such as mobile maps, mobile GPS navigation and more specific so-called "check-in" apps are becoming one with the "smart" world of phone and tablets, utilizing geographical positions attained via the mobile Internet. AutoNavi Holdings Ltd, a...
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
According to a team of NASA and Russian space and physical scientists, in the days before the March 11 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, the atmosphere directly above the epicenter rapidly heated up. In a presentation at the...
Friday, May 20th, 2011
A newly released satellite image reveals Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey at 15 million inhabitants, is quickly becoming a "megacity" covering almost 700 square miles. A newly released satellite image reveals Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey...
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The Bukit Bunuh archaeological site in Perak, which has thrown up evidence of the oldest “Old Stone Age” human culture to exist outside Africa, has been conferred a special geological status in an effort to help conserve...
