Chernobyl's reduced impact
An authoritative scientific report commissioned by the United Nations has found that the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in rural Ukraine - the worst nuclear accident in history -
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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In a first, VW to develop hybrid vehicles in China
Volkswagen announced on Thursday that it would develop, assemble and sell a gasoline-electric hybrid minivan in China in cooperation with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., a move that underlines
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GlaxoSmithKline to acquire Canadian vaccine maker for $1.4 billion
Hoping to become a major supplier of flu shots to the United States, GlaxoSmithKline has said that it will pay $1.4 billion to acquire ID Biomedical, a Canadian vaccine maker. The deal, announced
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New risk from salmon
The Bush administration has dropped any pretense of providing serious long-term protection for endangered salmon species in the Pacific North-west. The administration proposed to roll back
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Deal with drug firms faulted on safety issues
When U.S. drug official suspected in 1992 that a popular allergy pill might cause heart problems, they turned to their own scientists. Their trial confirmed the danger, and the drug was pulled from
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Mismanagement adds to misery in Niger
About 1.2 million of Niger's 3.6 million rural farmers and herders are described as "extremely vulnerable" to food shortages and in need of food aid, according to an assessment of Niger's crisis
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Pig disease in China worries UN
The World Health Organization has urged China to conduct more tests to clarify perplexing aspects of the largest outbreak in humans of a bacterial pig disease, including why the death rate among
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Alternative route to fuel efficiency
Toyota Motor will develop 10 hybrid electric model cars for sale worldwide by early in the next decade, the company's top North American executive has said. The company expects that a quarter of its
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The missing condoms
Uganda became Africa's leader in fighting AIDS by waging an all-fronts war. In 1991, 15 percent of Uganda's adults were infected with the virus. Ten years later the figure was 5 percent. Ugandan
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Still avoiding justice, two decades later
Twenty years ago this week, an explosion at a Union Carbide chemical factory sent 27 tons of poisonous methyl isocynate wafting over the slumbering residents of Bhopal, India. The after math was