Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
Ambitious plans for the implementation of a national rail network, which were stalled for the last six months following the cabinet reshuffle earlier this year, are now back on track with the Tender Board floating a tender...
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
JAXA has decided on the logo mark for the dual-frequency precipitation radar (DPR) aboard the main satellite of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) project. As an international program, the GPM project has been led by Japan and the...
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
An ADB press release said a technical assistance grant of $800,000 is associated with the loan supporting implementation of the Strengthening Governance Management Project (SGMP), and capacity development of its executing agencies. It also said, the project will...
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Christine Acosta is a young engineer who detects leaks for Maynilad Water Services, Inc. to solve the mysterious cases of water losses in Metro Manila. In this interview, Christine talks about her job of finding missing water;...
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Near median flows are the most likely outcome for eighteen of the forecast sites for spring, with high flows most likely for the remaining sites. Conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean remain neutral and close to average...
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Iraq is inching towards sealing a huge deal with Royal Dutch Shell to end power cuts that have plagued Iraqis and hurt economic growth since the fall of Saddam Hussein five years ago. The final draft of the...
Monday, September 12th, 2011
The Local Expert will work alongside with International Expert and assist provincial board of governor through providing support to all Master Plan and Provincial Land Use Plan Project activities. The plans shall provide provincial authorities with an...
Monday, September 12th, 2011
A state-of-the-art Oceansat-2 ground station (data reception and processing system) was inaugurated today by the Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Vilasrao Deshmukh at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (Incois) here. Read More
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Land Information of New Zealand has made available a great set of 1:50,000 scale Topographic Maps. I downloaded all 455 of the maps covering the main island of New Zealand and coverted them to a seamless Google...
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
The future for Kiribati, one of the low-lying Pacific nations threatened by rising seas, is so dire that the government is contemplating relocating the entire population to man-made islands resembling giant oil rigs. "We're considering everything... because...
