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| October 02, 2013 |
 S. Korean steel plant in India could displace 22,000, says UN New Delhi (AFP) Oct 01, 2013 - United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday a giant steelmaking project by South Korean giant Posco in eastern India could displace up to 22,000 people who risked falling into abject poverty. The group, comprising eight experts, urged Posco immediately to halt construction of the plant in the Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa state, citing concern for the villagers. The construction ... more |  |
 Four tonnes of radioactive water spilled in Fukushima Tokyo (AFP) Oct 01, 2013 - The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday workers had spilled four tonnes of radioactive water, likely contaminating the soil and possibly groundwater. Workers were pumping rain water that was trapped in a concrete gutter into an empty 12-tonne tank that sat on open soil, said a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO). "Work crew started operating the pump arou ... more |  |
 Taiwan envoy to meet China's Xi at APEC summit Taipei (AFP) Oct 01, 2013 - Taiwan's special envoy to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum said Tuesday he plans to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the event to discuss economic issues. The scheduled meeting between Vincent Siew, the island's former vice-president, and the Chinese leader comes amid warming ties between the two former cross-strait rivals. "The meeting will not last long. We'll foc ... more |  |
 Icahn presses Apple for $150 bn share buyback New York City (AFP) Oct 01, 2013 - Activist investor Carl Icahn said Tuesday he wants Apple to launch an additional share buyback of $150 billion to help boost the company's struggling stock value. Icahn said in a tweet he met with Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Monday over dinner to discuss his idea, and that he would continue talks with head of the maker of the iPhone and iPad. "Had a cordial dinner with Tim last nig ... more |  |
Tesco looks to China as profits dive in Europe London (AFP) Oct 02, 2013 - Britain's biggest retailer Tesco agreed a major deal on Wednesday to create a retail giant in China, as it seeks to offset "challenging" trading conditions in Europe which hit profits hard. Tesco will create a joint venture with China Resources Enterprise (CRE), it revealed in a statement, alongside news that first-half net earnings slumped by a third on flat revenues, restructuring costs, t ... more |  |
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 Japan PM to hike sales tax to ease debt burden Tokyo (AFP) Oct 01, 2013 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hike the nation's sales tax, Jiji Press news agency said Tuesday, in a move seen as crucial to chopping a massive national debt. Abe told a meeting of government and ruling party policymakers that the increase was aimed at "maintaining the nation's trust and handing over a sustainable social security system to the next generation", Jiji reported. T ... more |  |
 China's shale development gets off to slow start Beijing (UPI) Oct 1, 2013 - Development of China's vast shale resources is getting off to a slow start amid challenges, experts say. "Gas is the future for China, but it's in the next decade when shale will really flourish," said Neil Beveridge, a senior energy analyst at Sanford Bernstein in Hong Kong, was quoted as saying by The New York Times on Monday. The U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Adm ... more |  |
Bangladesh starts building first nuclear plant Dhaka (AFP) Oct 02, 2013 - Energy-starved Bangladesh on Wednesday inaugurated the opening phase of work for its first ever nuclear power plant using Russian technology. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stone of the Rooppur nuclear power plant in the country's northwest, which will have two 1,000 megawatt reactors costing up to $4 billion. The impoverished South Asian nation signed a deal in Novembe ... more |  |
Jellyfish 'invasion' causes Swedish nuclear reactor shutdown Stockholm (AFP) Oct 02, 2013 - A Swedish nuclear reactor was restarted on Wednesday following a three-day closure caused by a build-up of jellyfish in a cooling system, according to the operators. The incident occured in reactor 3 at Oskarshamn power station on the Baltic Sea coast, which is run by OKG, a subsidiary of the German electricity company EON. "It was a larger amount than we had ever seen. Every autumn we ... more |  |
Skyline of tents, towers shows Mongolia inequality Ulan Bator (AFP) Oct 02, 2013 - Sat in a tent on the outskirts of Mongolia's capital, Norihil Gendenpil lives on the physical - and economic - margins of a booming city filling up with skyscrapers. The 88-year-old grandmother still worries daily about the rising cost of food for herself and 20 children, grandchildren and other family members. "Every morning the price goes up," she says, sitting in her yurt, a traditi ... more |  |
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Internet technology becoming cyber chic San Francisco (AFP) Oct 02, 2013 - Models wearing Google Glass eyewear, Pebble smartwatches and other hot gadgets strutted a catwalk late Monday as Internet technology continued to merge with the world of fashion. A Digital Fall fashion show here marked the close of the first Glazed Conference devoted to setting the stage for wearable computing startups to become billion-dollar businesses. "It looks like technology for th ... more |  |
 IKEA rolls out consumer solar panel systems in British stores Southampton, England (UPI) Oct 2, 2013 - IKEA stores in Britain this week began selling rooftop solar panel systems, giving the industry a boost after rounds of feed-in tariff cuts and freezes. The Swedish retail giant confirmed Monday it would roll out the systems to 17 of its stores in Britain in coming months in partnership with Chinese panel-maker Hanergy Solar U.K. after conducting trial run this summer at an outlet in So ... more |  |
Vast Benidorm skyscraper a symbol of Spain crisis Benidorm, Spain (AFP) Oct 01, 2013 - Stretching into blue skies far above other towers crowding the Spanish resort of Benidorm, the Intempo skyscraper stands as a hard-to-miss beacon of excess from the days of Spain's property bubble. Floor numbers flash by on a blue screen as a new elevator soars up this 180-metre (590-foot) giant on the skyline of Benidorm, a mass tourism resort on eastern Spain's Mediterranean coast. At ... more |  |
Russia charges five activists with piracy: Greenpeace Moscow (AFP) Oct 02, 2013 - Russian investigators on Wednesday charged five Greenpeace campaigners with piracy over an open-sea protest against Arctic oil drilling, the environmental group said, calling the move an "outrage". The charge against the activists - a Briton, a Finn, a Brazilian, a Russian and a dual US-Swedish citizen - dimmed hopes that 25 others detained over the protest could be indicted on a lesser ch ... more |  |
China to be world's top gold buyer this year: experts Rome (AFP) Oct 01, 2013 - China is set to overtake India to become the world's top gold consumer this year, as the driving forces in the market shift from West to East, an industry association said Tuesday. "Most likely this year we will see China overtake India slightly," Albert Cheng, the World Gold Council's managing director for the Far East told AFP in an interview on the sidelines of a conference in Rome. " ... more |  |
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 Spirals of Light May Lead to Better Electronics Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - A group of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created the optical equivalent of a tuning fork-a device that can help steady the electrical currents needed to power high-end electronics and stabilize the signals of high-quality lasers. The work marks the first time that such a device has been miniaturized to fit on a chip and may pave the way to improvements in hi ... more |  |
Drexel finds new energy storage capabilities between layers of 2-D materials Philadelphia PA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - Drexel University researchers are continuing to expand the capabilities and functionalities of a family of two-dimensional materials they discovered that are as thin as a single atom, but have the potential to store massive amounts of energy. Their latest achievement has pushed the materials storage capacities to new levels while also allowing for their use in flexible devices. About three ... more |  |
Can bacteria combat oil spill disasters? Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - Teams of international scientists have decrypted the effectiveness of two types of bacteria, which could be used in the future to help combat oil spill disasters. According to a report written by scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in the peer-reviewed journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Alcanivorax bor ... more |  |
China's synthetic gas plants would be greenhouse giants Durham NC (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - Coal-powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers. These environmental costs have been largely neglected in the drive to meet the nation's growing energy needs, the res ... more |  |
How to make ceramics that bend without breaking Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 01, 2013 - Ceramics are not known for their flexibility: they tend to crack under stress. But researchers from MIT and Singapore have just found a way around that problem - for very tiny objects, at least. The team has developed a way of making minuscule ceramic objects that are not only flexible, but also have a "memory" for shape: When bent and then heated, they return to their original shapes. Th ... more |  |
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