remote region

Mel takes Britney on holiday

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

ACTOR-director Mel Gibson is taking troubled singer Britney Spears on holiday to his $A31.3 million ranch in a remote region of Costa Rica.

Make a cyclon contest - deadline is 06/14/2008

MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

... and they rebelled. Man and machine fought to a bloody stalemate, then the Cylons withdrew to a remote region of space. A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years. Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blonde — a Cylon in human form — met the human envoy… moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched...

Why we can't simply throw aid at Burma

Daily Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

... need safe landing grounds. There are no landing grounds in the Irrawaddy Delta, one of the most remote regions in Asia. It is a tangled web of creeks in a sea of mangrove. And you need safe skies. The Burmese tyrants have an air force; not very good but jet fighters will blow a low, slow freighter out of the sky. Penetrating sovereign airspace against national veto is an act of belligerence....

Kenya: Fibre Optic Cable to Revolutionise Internet Use

All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

Internet users will reap great benefits when the eastern region of Africa is connected to the submarine fibre optic cable next year.

FACTBOX-Five facts on China's race to save quake victims

Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

... are parachuting in troops and food, medicines and tents. Hundreds of troops are heading for remote towns on foot. The deployment is China's largest ever non-combat air operation.* The huge number of victims and the problem of accessing remote regions where connecting roads were severely damaged are the two major difficulties facing rescuers. People trapped under rubble could...

Camel Has New Humps... er... books

Buzz, Balls & Hype (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

... to come. Many thanks to everyone involved for building a bridge and helping bring books to this remote region. We're not finished yet, though. Current efforts are focused on raising money so that local people can collect their folktales and traditional stories and then have them published, likely in Somali. This idea was the brainchild of a book group in Australia that read The Camel...

Miners shun mineral wealth of the Philippines

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

But miners and mining analysts say the money is still only trickling in to exploration and the opening of new mines. Excessive and slow regulatory procedures, laws that give local governments significant power over the exploitation of mineral resources, the invasion of mining concessions by illegal miners or small-scale mining operators, and security problems surrounding many mines in remote...

Predator [Blu-ray]

Best Entertainment World (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of U.S. Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they've been assigned [...]

Quake won't cripple China

NewsObserver.com - Business (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008

The Associated PressSHANGHAI, CHINA - The earthquake that ripped through central China's Sichuan province, killing thousands, crumpling roads and factories and disrupting power and communication, will be only a transitory jolt for the booming economy, analysts say.As companies assessed damage Tuesday from Monday's 7.9-magnitude quake, however, it was clear that even in such a relatively remote...

• Roads crumpled, power down, but impact of quake on China's booming economy seen as limited - Star Tribune

BrazilianUpdate (Www.OSIR.org.in)

www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008

UPDATE FROM THE ACADEMY FOR FUTURE SCIENCE - BRAZIL THE BRAZILIAN STONEHENGE Cal oene, a small coastal town in a remote region of Source: www.futurescience.org Engineering the Future: Science, Technology and the Design ProcessEngineering the Future: Science, Technology and the Design Process - A free interactive and hands-on introductory workshop for [...]

Roads crumpled, power down, but impact of quake on China's booming economy seen as limited

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

SHANGHAI, China - The earthquake that ripped through central China's Sichuan province, killing more than 12,000 people, crumpling roads and factories and disrupting power and communication, will be only a transitory jolt for the booming economy, analysts say.As companies assessed damage Tuesday from Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake, it was clear that even in such a relatively remote region,...

Gas/tanks

Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

Eric Margolis: …Russia has 20% of the world's natural gas reserves, and at least 7% of proven oil reserves, some 75 billion barrels. However, Russia’s huge reserves are in remote regions and will require vast investment to further exploit. Even so, as energy prices soar, Russia grows wealthier and more powerful by the day, a sort of [...]

At least 10,000 dead as landslides seal off towns and block rescuers

Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008

... whose 110,000 residents had failed to make contact with the outside world. Few buildings in this remote region would have been built to withstand earthquakes. Related LinksMultimediaIn a single county near the epicentre, 80 per cent of buildings had collapsed, 3,000-5,000 people had died and 10,000 had been injured. That means about one in ten in Beichuan county, from a population...

Wild China: behind the bamboo curtain

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

Until now, much of China's stunning wildlife has been out of bounds to Western film crews. Producer Phil Chapman describes how the BBC's 'Wild China' team braved remote regions (and military hovercraft) in pursuit of pandas, rare tigers and spoonbills.

Lebanese P.M.: Hezbollah Staged Coup

CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008

Lebanese security and hospital officials say that at least 12 gunmen are dead and 20 wounded in a gun battle between pro- and anti-government groups in a remote region of northern Lebanon with the Lebanese prime minister is calling an "armed coup."