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Chinese-built hospital risks collapse in Angola: state radio
Luanda (AFP) July 6, 2010
Luanda's general hospital has evacuated 150 patients over worries that the four-year-old, Chinese-built structure could collapse, state radio reported Tuesday.
The patients were evacuated after the discovery of "deep cracks in the walls of the paediatrics and gynaecology wards", the report said.
The eight-million-dollar hospital was built by the China Overseas Engineering Group Company ( ... more
Carbon monoxide kills nine miners in China
Beijing (AFP) July 5, 2010
Nine miners died from carbon monoxide poisoning over the weekend at a colliery in central China, state media reported Monday, in the latest accident to plague the notoriously dangerous industry.
Three miners died in the pit, while six others who were initially rescued died later in hospital, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing Liu Xianghua, the deputy director of the coal mining ... more
Biodiversity's Holy Grail Is In The Soil
Ancon, Panama (SPX) Jun 30, 2010
Why are tropical forests so biologically rich? Smithsonian researchers have new evidence that the answer to one of life's great unsolved mysteries lies underground, according to a study published in the journal, Nature.
"We've known for a long time that tree seedlings do not grow and survive well under their mothers or other adult trees of the same species," said Scott Mangan, postdoctoral ... more
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Japan summer heat wave blamed for 66 deaths
