Sunday, December 19th, 2010
The Malaysian Cabinet has approved the setting up of a mass rapid transit system for the country's capital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday. Najib said the 36-billion-ringgit (11.5-billion-U.S. dollars) project is the largest...
Saturday, December 18th, 2010
I am deeply humbled and honoured to wear this chain of office as I stand before all of you today. The immensity and weight of this responsibility are not loss on me. It is a responsibility and stewardship that...
Saturday, December 18th, 2010
The formal Handover Ceremony between the current and incoming FIG Councils and Commission chairs took place in Copenhagen 26 November 2010. At the Handover Ceremony President Stig Enemark gave the President's Chain of Office to the incoming President CheeHai...
Friday, December 17th, 2010
BUSINESS INSIDER - The hottest market in the hottest economy in the world is Chinese real estate. The big question is how vulnerable is this market to a crash. One red flag is the vast number of...
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
THE TIMES OF INDIA - The age-old process of officials physically surveying land could well be history for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The civic body has decided that satellite images will be collected for the land...
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
ESA's Earth-observing satellites are helping to understand the intricate role that Eurasia's boreal forest – the planet's largest land ecosystem – plays in the chemical make-up of the atmosphere and the global climate system.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER - A Russian Glonass-K satellite has been delivered to the Plesetsk Space Center in Arkhangelsk Oblast, where it will be launched later this month. The satellite will be sent into orbit atop a modernized Soyuz...
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The main cause of the loss of Russia's three Glonass-M satellites was due to human error from fueling the booster rocket with an excess of 1.5-2 tons of fuel, the head of the Russian state commission probing...
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The Remote Sensing Centre, in partnership with the National Fiscal and Economic Commission (NEFC) has created GIS-based planning tools – or ‘Geobooks’, that are expressly designed for use by Provincial Governments. Geobook is a stand-alone windows based...
