Global News Headlines 03/02

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March 2, 1998
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  2  February 28, 1998 NEW STRAITS TIMES- MANAGEMENT TIMES  MALAYSIA
Representatives unanimously closes Annex VII membership THE Fourth Meeting
of the Conference of Parties yesterday unanimously agreed  that the Basel
Convention will not add new countries into Annex VII until the ban on the

  3  AP  March  02, 1998  NEW STRAITS TIMES  MALAYSIA Several countries seek
exceptions to Basel decision -  THE high-level officials meeting yesterday
began with developed nations calling repeatedly for exceptions to the Basel
ban on transboundary movements of hazardous waste.

<<< NUCLEAR POWER >>>

  4  Russian nuclear energy minister sacked MOSCOW, March 5 (Reuters)
President Boris Yeltsin on Monday removed veteran Viktor Mikhailov as
Russia's nuclear energy minister, the Kremlin said, the fourth minister to
lose his job in recent days.  A Kremlin spokesman said Yeltsin's decree did

  5   TASS  March  2, 1998  Russia to sign 10-year agreement with Germany on
uranium DATELINE: MOSCOW, March 2   The Russian government has approved an
agreement to be signed with the government of Federal Germany on supplies of
highly-enriched uranium for a  nuclear  research reactor.  Russian Prime

  6  BBC Summary of World Broadcasts  March  2, 1998  Small offshore island
opposes storage of  nuclear waste SOURCE: Source: Central News Agency,
Taipei, 28 Feb 98  Text of report from the Taiwanese Central News Agency web
site   Kinmen [Quemoy], 27th February: Taiwan Power Company's

  7  BBC Summary of World Broadcasts  March  2, 1998  Crisis information
centre for  nuclear  incidents opens SOURCE: Source: UNIAN news agency,
Kiev, 27 Feb 98  Excerpt from report by Ukrainian news agency UNIAN
Kiev, 27th February: A crisis information centre at the

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  8   03/02  US-Nuclear Weapons By JOHN DIAMOND WASHINGTON (AP) Harkening
back to the Cold War era of nuclear standoff, the U.S. military's nuclear
command says an "irrational and vindictive" demeanor against adversaries
such as Iraq may help deter conflict.    The view is contained in an

  9   03/01  Nerve Gas-Iraq  NEW YORK (AP) Ten years after Saddam Hussein
dropped chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds in the city of Halabja, its
citizens continue to suffer devastating illnesses and deformities, a doctor
said on "60 Minutes" Sunday night.

 10  Australia Seeks to Convene World Chemical Weapons Meeting CANBERRA
(March 2) XINHUA - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander  Downer Monday
announced Australia would pursue a series of diplomatic  initiatives to
strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention, including  a plan for a world

<<< OCEANS >>>

 11 The Ottawa Citizen  March 2, 1998 A3  Report won't lay blame in cod
fishery failure: Committee to release final draft by next week, New Democrat
MP says by   Charles Enman  Canadians will soon hear from parliamentarians
why the cod fishery off the Atlantic coast collapsed so disastrously in the

 12  VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST  Mar.02,1998  A5 Seal hunt protests are
heating up again  TORONTO (CP) - Calling the federal government ''an enemy
to seals and an  enemy to the people of Canada,'' protesters are stepping up
their efforts  to stop commercial seal hunting in Canada.

 13  WELLINGTON, March 2 NZPA - Hundreds of whales were still being killed
within  the borders of the southern ocean whale sanctuary created in 1994,
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)  New Zealand said today.  The whales
were being killed for scientific purposes because of an International

<<< ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY >>>

 14 COMLINE Daily News Electronics  March  2, 1998 Industrial-Use Solar
Power Array Available from Marubeni, Fujisash - Marubeni [8002], Fujisash
[5940] and the German general engineering company Pilkington Solar
International (PSI) announced on Feb. 25 that they had signed an agreement

 15  COMLINE Daily News Chemicals and Materials March  2, 1998 MITI Drafts
Guidelines Toward Controlling Greenhouse Gases  BODY: The Ministry of
International Trade and Industry (MITI) has drafted guidelines for the
industrial community to use when formulating their action plans toward

 16  Thousands face food, drinking water shortages in Indonesian province
 By Jason Tedjasukmana  JAKARTA, March 2 (AFP) Concern mounted Monday as
fires and drought sent smoke billowing over Indonesia's East Kalimantan
province and caused shortages of staple foods and drinking water.

 17   United Press International  March  2, 1998  Indonesian fires a global
problem DATELINE: KUALA LUMPUR  The brush fires that burned for four months
late last year in Indonesia released as much carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere as is released in all of Europe in a full year, a government

 18  NT: DARWIN RAINFALL BUCKS EL NINO TREND, BAFFLES EXPERTS  By Wayne
Howell   DARWIN, March 2 AAP - Spectacular tropical storms overnight gave
Darwin one  of its wettest 24-hour periods on record, continuing a trend
that is baffling El Nino researchers.  The 230 millimetres of rain that fell

 19   Financial Times (London)  March  2, 1998  Pg. 02 Carmakers pressed to
reduce CO2 emissions  By Michael Smith   Chief executives of European car
companies are under intense pressure to agree this week to a voluntary cut
in carbon dioxide emissions, after indications that failure will lead to the

 20 NSW: NO LINK BETWEEN CANCER AND ELECTRIC POWERLINES  SYDNEY, March 2 AAP
- Research has found there is no scientific evidence that overhead
powerlines caused cancer, according to a study commissioned by a power
association. The 18-month study, funded by the Electricity Supply

 21 AP  March  02, 1998  Caspian Sea oil producers issue support for Turkish
pipeline BYLINE: YALMAN ONARAN  DATELINE: ISTANBUL, Turkey  Oil-producing
countries of the Caspian Sea declared their support Monday for a pipeline
through Georgia and Turkey as one of the several routes to carry their oil

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 22   March 02, 1998 HONGKONG STANDARD Study to size up Lamma for housing
development  THE development of Lamma Island and Hong Kong Island South
could pave the way for homes for 60,000 people in the next 13
years.    The government has commissioned a $ 28.8 million study into

 23  Xinhua  MARCH  2, 1998  fires destroy economic  forests  in vietnam
  forest  fires as a result of a prolonged drought in vietnam have destroyed
numerous economic plants, the local press reported sunday.  a total of 730
hectares of tender eucalyptus of the international joint venture kien tai

 24   Agence France Presse   March  02, 1998 Asian crisis hits forestry
product firms: Standard and Poor's DATELINE: BANGKOK, March 2  Asia's
fast-growing  forest  product industry was warned by credit assessor
 Standard and Poor's on Monday of fallout from the region's financial

 25  VIC: GREENIES DEMAND MINISTER RESIGN OVER  LOGGING  PLAN  MELBOURNE,
March 2 AAP - About 30 anti- logging  protesters gathered today outside the
Melbourne office of Victorian Conservation Minister Marie Tehan demanding
she resign over  allowing  logging  in Victoria's far east.  Friends of the

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 26   EU grills Netherlands, Germany over gene corn row  BRUSSELS, March 2
(Reuters) - The European Commission is to ask the Dutch and German
authorities to answer complaints that they are allowing illegal imports of
gene-altered corn into the European Union, Commission officials said on

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