Friday, December 30th, 2011
Saumitra Chaudhuri, member of Planning Commission, New Delhi, said on Thursday that the 12th Plan would give priority to infrastructure. Inaugurating the two-day national conference on “Development challenges in the 12th Five Year Plan” organised by the Justice...
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered the annulment of all land purchases within the Cardamom Mountains in Pursat province due to gross illegal land-grabbing practices taking place. “High-ranking government officials and the rich have come into ...
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Trimble announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the StruCad and StruEngineer business from AceCad Software to expand its construction solutions. The addition of the software products is expected to...
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Seven years after a devastating tsunami struck Sri Lanka, more work still needs to be done to secure an effective early-warning system, officials say. More than 30,000 Sri Lankans lost their lives in the Indian Ocean tsunami...
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
The 4th meeting of the Party Central Committee opened in the capital city yesterday with Party building and infrastructure works high on the agenda. Addressing the conference, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said the building of...
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Sri Lanka's marine researchers are planning to use aerial and underwater unmanned vehicles with remote sensing technology to study the oceans around the country, officials said. Sri Lanka's National Aquatic Research Agency (NARA) wants to team up...
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
The system, named Kyoto University Radiation Mapping System or KURAMA, is ingeniously simple. First, equip buses with radiation detectors and GPS, and as they scour the city on their daily routes they can collect data from all...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
The interdisciplinary research project CRC TR32: “Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Systems: Monitoring, Modelling and Data Assimilation” works on matter fluxes between soil, vegetation and atmosphere (SVA) on a regional scale. In this regard, high quality land use data is...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
This summer the world’s first smartphone to support GPS and GLONASS, the ZTE 945, was announced. Today we’re announcing wider support for GPS and GLONASS. Any device with a Snapdragon ™ S2 or S3 processor is capable...
