csmonitor.com - 10/22/2009
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India and China's climate-change pact, signed Wednesday, will boost developing nations' bargaining power at the critical Copenhagen talks in December. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the October 22, 2009 edition Beijing - China's new climate change deal with ...
chinahush.com - 10/23/2009
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] October 14, 2009, the 30 th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s ...
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Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China
themoderatevoice.com - 10/22/2009
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The production of a Hollywood film on the
romance between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and...
Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the last British viceroy of India, has been temporarily halted. The Indian government wants an assurance that the movie, Indian Summer , ...
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Hollywood Movie Interrupted: Nehru-Edwina Romance
techcrunch.com - 10/26/2009
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Editor’s note : This is a guest post
by Vivek Wadhwa , an entrepreneur turned academic. He...
is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @ ...
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Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China
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World Drought, Yemeni Rebels, Cocaine Cowboys Running Short On Supply
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... It doesn't matter wether you believe in global warming or not, right now we are experiencing global climate change, and countries like India and China are making agreements to help each other in unprecedented ways: "Under the agreement, India and China will work together to increase energy efficiency, boost the use of renewable energy sources, develop "clean coal" technology, and improve afforestation techniques. ...
China and India Join Forces on Climate
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First, it binds the two largest CO2 emitters in the developing world to a common stance at upcoming international negotiations on climate change in Copenhagen, firming up the coalition of poor countries that will square off against industrialized nations.
The five-year pact also points the way toward joint efforts to cut growth in CO2 emissions that the two Asian giants have pledged to make, while resisting fixed targets for such emissions reductions.
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voices.washingtonpost.com 10/14/2009 —
Some excellent thoughts on the structural forces behind the end of American unipolarity from Matt Yglesias:
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