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Yanmar, Chia Tai and XAG Empower Thai Agriculture through Innovation
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Boom in Infrastructure Development Triggers Growth in the Asia Pacific

The Asia Pacific air traffic control (ATC) equipment market is experiencing fast-paced growth, driven by booming air traffic and infrastructure expansion programmes. With most countries in the region witnessing burgeoning passenger and cargo traffic, the markets in...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Web Based Atlas of Laser Scanned Buddhist Stone Inscriptions

An important cultural heritage is located in the Chinese providence of Sichuan: about 1000 years
ago, Buddhist stone inscriptions have been carved into rock – the Stone Sutras. Archiving the current
state of the inscriptions,...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Mapping Mangrove Biomass

The 2004 Asian Tsunami caused dramatic damage, but there are other threats. Remote sensing technologies are evolving quickly and provide tools for monitoring such tropical forests so the team set out to compare three methods. Image differencing is...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

India Releases Atlas of Freedom Movement

An atlas, which traces historical events comprising the Freedom Movement of India in geo-spatial depiction, was released at the Geo Summit 2011, held at the Satyabhama University here. Prithvish Nag, Director, National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO),...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

GIZ at the Fifth Asia Pacific Urban Forum

The GIZ-SUTP along with the Transport division of the UNESCAP jointly organised a breakout session at the Fifth Asia Pacific Urban Forum on the 22nd June 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. The title of the breakout session was...

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Siemens Helps TAIPEI 101 to Become the Tallest ‘green’ Building

Siemens has assisted the management team of TAIPEI 101, the tallest building in Taiwan and the second tallest building in the world, to achieve platinum certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Existing Buildings: Operations and...

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Nearmap.com Signs Agreement with Hometrack

Property information service company, Hometrack, has signed an agreement with Perth-based nearmap.com to use its photo mapping content for its Valuer product. Hometrack provides electronic valuations and risk analytics solutions to the Australian and UK housing and mortgage...

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Australia’s Biggest Agricultural Industry Field Day Event

The giant field days are staged over three days in August in Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. It attracts over 100,000 visitors, the largest visitation of any rural field day in the country. Since it started in 1973,...

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Powering Japan’s Future

Last year, Japan produced close to one quadrillion watt-hours of electricity — that's 1 followed by 15 zeros. The vast majority of that — which translates into one billion megawatt hours (MWh) — came from coal, natural...

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

China Set to Launch Ninth Beidou Navigation Satellite

China is preparing to launch its ninth “Beidou” or Compass navigation satellite in the coming days, an official media report said on Monday. The satellite will be launched as part of China’s indigenous satellite-navigation set-up. A Long...