Health risk debated in nanotech
A new review of research on nanoscale materials suggests that tiny particles are often toxic because of their size and are likely to pose health hazards, especially to workers making them. Vyvyan
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Hong Kong tracks 2d SARS route
Medical investigations studying the city's SARS outbreak confirmed that a second transmission route exists for the disease.
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Dictatorships and disease
It is known that repressive government is one of the principal causes of famine. Democracies, after all, spread information about bad harvest. Today, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is
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North America pollution falls off 5%
Environmental pollution in North America dropped 5 percent between 1995 and 2000, according to a new study by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation set up under the North American Free Trade
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Grant hurdles for scientists
Scientists who study AIDS and other sexually transmitted disease say they have been warned by U.S. health officials that their research may come under unusual scrutiny by the Department of Health and
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Nasal flu vaccine to be approved soon
Every year, millions of people, many of them elderly, roll up their sleeves for sometimes painful flu shots. Now the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected soon to approve a painless
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Hong Kong pledges $1.5 billion as cost of SARS mounts
Officials announced the largest economic measure yet to address the consequences of SARS in Hong Kong, a $1.5 billion package of tax breaks, loan guarantees and short-term janitorial jobs. The plan
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The end of wilderness
From the beginning, President George W. Bush has been far more interested in exploiting the public lands for commercial purposed that in protecting their environmental values. On matters ranging from
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Vietnam seeks progress on WTO membership
Vietnam wants to speed up negotiations to join the World Trade Organisation as its potential export growth, threatening to widen its trade deficit. Joining the global trading body would expose
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If we can't even talk trade, where is the world headed?
Political conditions for advancing negotiations on the new round of global trade liberalization are much less favourable than they were 18 sues are pilling up. On the present trajectory, the meeting