Looking for Singapore Culture

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Why are we so hungry for badges of identity? Ravi Veloo, Today Online 5 Apr 08; IS THERE a Singapore culture? Something unique and common t...

Formula One organisers: We did consider Earth Hour

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Today Online 5 Apr 08; Letter from Muhamad Rostam bin Umar Director, Communications, Singapore Tourism Board Jonathan Hallett Media and Com...

Earth Hour: Making all aware of a disaster in slow motion

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Straits Times 5 Apr 08; To mark the first global Earth Hour, about 40 local companies and non-profit organisations dimmed or powered down f...

U.N. body to slash ship fuel pollution by 2015

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Stefano Ambrogi, Reuters 4 Apr 08; LONDON (Reuters) - The world's top maritime body agreed tough new limits on ship fuel pollutants at ...

Rice situation in Asia

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Thailand pledges rice supplies, elsewhere protests loom Bloomberg Today Online 5 Apr 08; Thailand, the world's biggest rice exporter, p...

World's poor steaming over rising food prices

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A potent mix of growing populations and economies; a switch from food to biofuel crops; droughts and diseases; and a lack of new technology ...

Singapore's fast HFMD test kit a world's first

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Tan Hui Leng, Today Online 5 Apr 08; SINGAPORE is developing the world's first diagnostic kit for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) t...

South Korea culls thousands of chickens to fight bird flu outbreak

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Channel NewsAsia 4 Apr 08; SEOUL: South Korea has started culling thousands of chickens after an outbreak of bird flu was confirmed to be t...

Dead birds washing up at Great Salt Lake

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Dan Bischoff, Associated Press Yahoo News 5 Apr 08; Thousands of dead birds are washing up on the Great Salt Lake shore. "We've re...

Australian minister defends kangaroo culls

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Yahoo News 4 Apr 08; Australian Agriculture Minister Tony Burke on Friday defended the culling of hundreds of kangaroos, saying hundreds of...

Mojave tortoises moved for Army training

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Yahoo News 5 Apr 08; Scientists have begun moving the Mojave Desert's flagship species, the desert tortoise, to make room for tank trai...

Germany drops plan for auto biofuel

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Yahoo News 4 Apr 08; Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Friday that Germany would scrap plans to develop auto biofuels because they w...