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Malaysia to Ban Bauxite Mining for 3 Months to Cut Pollution
January 6, 2016 — 8:33 AM GMT Updated on January 6, 2016 — 10:52 AM GMT
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Country supplied more than 40% of China’s imports last year
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Suspension starts Jan. 15 as government seeks to tighten rules
bloomberg – Malaysia, the biggest shipper of bauxite to China, will stop mining ore for three months to cut river and sea pollution, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Wan Junaidi Jaafar said.
The ban takes effect from Jan. 15 in Pahang, the largest producing state, Wan Junaidi told reporters. Exports will be allowed during the moratorium to reduce port inventories, and after the suspension the government will limit bauxite production to the capacity to ship the material, he said on Wednesday.
Malaysia supplied more than 40 percent of China’s imports of the aluminum-making raw material last year after Indonesia imposed a ban on shipments in January 2014. China produces about half the world’s aluminum used in everything from aircraft to door frames and drink cans. The country’s exports of the metal and its products surged 36 percent in November from the previous month, helping push global prices down 19 percent in 2015. Tiếp tục đọc “Malaysia to Ban Bauxite Mining for 3 Months to Cut Pollution”
Vietnam begins huge effort to identify war dead
World’s largest systematic identification project will use smart DNA-testing technology.
12 January 2016 Article tools
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Vietnam’s Viet-Laos cemetery contains the remains of thousands of people who died in the Vietnam War — but most are still unidentified.
Nature – Digging foundations for temples or schools, harvesting rice in paddy fields: these are some of the ways that the decaying remains of Vietnam War victims still turn up, 40 years after the conflict ended. Now an effort has begun that will use smart DNA technologies to identify the bones of the half a million or more Vietnamese soldiers and civilians who are thought still to be missing.
It is the largest ever systematic identification effort; only the identification of more than 20,000 victims of armed conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s comes close.
“When I was a 21-year-old in the medical corps there, I never imagined that such a project could ever become possible,” says Vietnam veteran and genomics pioneer Craig Venter, head of the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, California. “We thought of body counts as statistics — now, decades later, it may be possible to put names to them.”
Although the United States has repatriated and identified most of its war dead, Vietnam has so far identified just a few hundred people, using outdated techniques. Yet people in Vietnam remain desperate to acquire the remains of family members. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam begins huge effort to identify war dead”
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