Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Monday, February 20th, 2012 The Farmland Bill and Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Bill were submitted to parliament during the second session but had not been passed when the session ended in late November. Activists and land rights experts say the...More Warnings Over Myanmar Land Bills
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
The treatment meted out to the former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman, G. Madhavan Nair, was inappropriate, according to senior BJP leader Jaswant Singh. “This is not the way to treat a great scientist like him,”...
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Surveying, Geographic Information and Map Division in China asserted it's overall 2012 strategy this past week at a plenary meeting. Min Yi-jen acted as deputy director of the meeting, which focused upon new requirements and a...
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Few international research centres are able to engage with a broad range of forest-related issues, stress the perspectives of poor countries and communities, combine policy and research, question conventional wisdom and constantly focus on how to have...
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Indonesia is taking aim at infrastructure development. The country recognizes the serious shortage of infrastructure within it's borders and understands that services, including basic protection, transport and marine operations all depend upon fully functioning infrastructure. The government...
Friday, November 18th, 2011
In order to enhance the function for full-time monitoring the outdoors whereabouts and movements of convicts, the 3rd generation monitoring equipment is planned to integrate the GPS technology. On Oct 26, 2011, judicial officers, the 27 members...
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
A total fire ban has been issued for the North-East Pastoral district on Tuesday. The weather bureau is forecasting temperatures in the high 30s, with gusty north-westerly winds. The Country Fire Service has contained outback blazes, at Bon Bon...
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
The Senate President, Senator David Mark has described land as important factor of production requires conscious and quality attention in its management. Mark, who was represented by Senator Gbenga Ashafa at a “Policy Dialogue meeting” held at Lagos...
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
The Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture has added its voice to the widespread concerns over the development of the coal seam gas industry. But it's not CSG itself the council is worried about, so much as what...
