August 23, 2011
Investing in GMOs is the worst decision Vietnam could make at this time, putting its food sovereignty at risk, independent scientists say A Thai organic farmer pretends to be dead after eating GM corn during a protest against the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to Thailand outside the Government House in Bangkok in [...]
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July 26, 2011
Internally displaced Somali men perform prayers over the body of a man who died of starvation July 25, 2011 at an IDP camp in Mogadishu. The UN World Food Program was set on Tuesday to start airlifting food to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya after an emergency meeting in Rome on the drought-stricken Horn of Africa [...]
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July 24, 2011
Chinese firefighters work to rescue survivors from the scene of a high-speed train crash in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. China has ordered an “urgent” overhaul of rail safety, state media said Sunday, after a train crash killed 35 people in the worst accident to ever hit the country’s high-speed rail network. Another 210 people were [...]
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July 2, 2011
Re: “Some good news, finally” (Thanh Nien Weekly Issue No.90 June 17-24) Circular 74, which will allow day trading and shares on margin, is not good news, as your headline loudly proclaims. It portends a disaster that will result from adopting the worst elements of casino capitalism. It also smacks of a failure to [...]
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May 4, 2011
An Afghan mother, who lost relatives in Afghanistan’s wars is pictured in 2010 cradling a child at a mass grave on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said. “Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of [...]
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April 29, 2011
A couple try to salvage items from a flattened shop in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Shocked Americans struggled to grasp the magnitude of the worst US tornadoes in decades, which carved a trail of destruction across the south, claiming at least 305 lives. Communities like Alabama Governor Robert Bentley’s home town of Tuscaloosa were virtually wiped off [...]
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April 11, 2011
A family prays as they remember disaster victims nearby the site of their home which was destroyed in the recent tsunami. Japan fell silent at 2:46 pm Monday as people across the country remembered the thousands killed by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake on March 11 and the monster tsunami it created. In the devastated city [...]
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March 19, 2011
A toy lies in front of a destroyed house in the devastated city of Ofunato. Rescue teams from the US, Britain and China began assisting in the search for survivors following the devasting earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11. Workers were ordered to withdraw from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after [...]
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March 13, 2011
A woman cries after learning that her mother was successfully rescued from a building following an earthquake and tsunami in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan March 12, 2011 Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a massive earthquake, but the government insisted [...]
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March 12, 2011
Houses swept by a tsunami are seen as residents walk in Kesen Numa, Miyagi prefecture March 12, 2011 Japan scrambled on Saturday to reduce pressure in two nuclear plants damaged after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck its northeast coast probably killing at least 1,300 people. A day after the biggest quake on record in [...]
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