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Police yet to investigate the cause of fire

JakartaPost Monday, March 15, 2010 5:25:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) chemical[1]; spilled[1];

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The Jakarta Police found another body in the remains of a burnt sandal factory in Kamal Raya, West Jakarta, on Sunday and said questioning the factory management will happen once the search process Read More...

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Asbestos Removal, Demolition, Mold Remediation, Lead Abatement, PCB's: Toronto Ontario Canada's leading Environmental Remediation companies since 1989

earthtimes Monday, March 15, 2010 5:10:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) disaster[3]; industrial[3]; Industrial[2]; Disaster[5];

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Other categories: Echo;

(1888PressRelease) - Restoration Environmental REC Environmental Remediation has been successfully been removing Asbestos, Mold, Lead, all Hazardous Materials Materials and completing Demolition, Flood Water Fire Damage Restoration from Government, C...

Was Mr Manning too close to Sunway?

Triniad-guardian Monday, March 15, 2010 5:05:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) training[1]; barge[1]; industrial[7]; TERTIARY[1]; Bridge[2]; pollution[1]; air[1]; Monorail[2]; road[6]; bridge[1]; Road[1]; oil[1];

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Entities: Sdn Bhd[75]; Petaling Jaya[4]; Shah Alam[2];

Other categories: EU2020; Biotechnology; Economic Crisis - Internal Market;

For those who have been misinformed. Read on SUBSIDIARIES OF THE SUNWAY GROUP 1) Civil Engineering & Construction 2) Building Materials 3) Quarrying 4) Property Development & Investments 5) Leisure Entertainment & Hospitality ( Hotels & Resorts) 6) Toll Concessions / Highway / Roads / Interchanges. 7) Tertiary Education....

Articles published more than 40 minutes ago

Man killed on way to rebury father

nzherald Monday, March 15, 2010 4:55:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) motorcyclists[1]; motorbike[1]; motorcycle[2]; motorway[1]; motorcyclist[1]; bridge[3]; road[3]; Road[2]; collision[1];

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A Taranaki man riding in a family convoy to Northland to rebury the remains of his father was killed on Friday night, when his motorbike ploughed into a bank.Ronald James Rupapera, 49, from Eltham, was one of four to die on the......

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Widespread power blackout hits Chile

cnn Monday, March 15, 2010 4:39:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) power blackout[1]; trains[1];

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Entities: Santiago-Chile[1];

Other categories: Transport and Energy Security;

Much of Chile was in the dark Sunday after a blackout knocked out power to 90 percent of the country, CNN's sister network in the country reported....

Oil company under scrutiny over disaster

abc-au Monday, March 15, 2010 4:14:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) Oil[2]; disaster[1]; gas[3]; catastrophic[1]; spill[3]; oil[5];

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A federal inquiry into a large oil spill off the coast of Western Australia last year has heard there was a number of possible causes....

Pakistani Jets Attack Taliban Positions, Killing 17

globalsecurity Monday, March 15, 2010 4:10:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) tanker[1]; Jets[1]; spill[1]; jets[1]; oil[2];

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Other categories: Maritime Safety; Terrorist Attack; Security; Transport and Energy Security;

Pakistani officials say fighter jets pounded Taliban hideouts near the Afghan border Sunday, killing at least 17 suspected militants....

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Blackout hits large parts of Chile

telegraph Monday, March 15, 2010 3:25:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) mining[1]; power outage[1];

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Entities: Pablo Larraín[1]; Rodrigo Hinzpeter[1];

Other categories: Natural Disasters;

Entire cities across Chile have been left without power and output at some mines has been disrupted after a main power grid failed two weeks after a massive earthquake killed hundreds and ravaged infrastructure....

Casualisation: ICEM Petitions ExxonMobil’s Parent Company

thisdayonline Monday, March 15, 2010 3:22:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) jetties[1]; gas[5]; train[1]; Chemical[1]; oil[5]; Gas[1];

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Entities: Rex Tillerson[1];

Other categories: Security;

The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Union (ICEM) has drawn the attention of the United States-based parent company of Exxon Mobil to the anti-labour activities of one of its subsidiaries-Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN) concerning the use of casual and contract workers by MPN....

Eritrea: Mining companies: Throwing a lifeline to a brutal regime (3/14/2010)

africafiles Monday, March 15, 2010 3:13:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) disaster[1]; mining[47]; train[1]; air[1]; road[2]; bridge[1]; jets[1]; Mining[3]; causal[1];

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Entities: Ali Abdu[3];

Other categories: Alternative Energy; EU2020; Market; Gender Equality;

This opinion piece calls for halt the large scale mining that is set to start later this year. DN...

Power blackout hits Chile two weeks after quake

reuters Monday, March 15, 2010 3:12:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) mining[1]; power outage[1]; Power blackout[1];

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Entities: Fiona Ortiz[1]; Antonio de la Jara[1]; Alonso Soto[1]; Fabián Cambero[1]; Pablo Larraín[1]; Rodrigo Hinzpeter[1];

Other categories: Natural Disasters;

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Cities across Chile were without power on Sunday and output at some mines disrupted after a main power grid failed a fortnight after a massive earthquake killed hundreds and ravaged infrastructure....

Massive blackout in Chile blamed on transformer short circuit

earthtimes Monday, March 15, 2010 3:10:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) power outage[1]; trains[1];

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Entities: Rodrigo Hinzpeter[1];

Other categories: Natural Disasters; Transport and Energy Security;

Santiago - A massive power outage that plunged most of Chile into darkness on Sunday was caused by a short circuit in a 500- kilowatt transformer, officials said. The blackout was not directly related to the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that devastated C......

Gas cylinder blast victim dies

nst Monday, March 15, 2010 3:07:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) gas[2]; explosion[1]; Gas[1];

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Entities: Abdul Halim[1];

2010/03/15 SUNGAI PETANI: One of the three men who suffered third-degree burns in an explosion at an illegal cooking gas store in Taman Batik here on March 10 died yesterday. Zulkifli Harun, 29, from Sungai Semilang, Juru, suffered 100 per cent burns and died about 3.25am after four days in Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital's intensive care unit here....

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Telecom restores phone links

fijitimes Monday, March 15, 2010 2:34:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Vanua Levu[2];

Update: 1:14PM TELECOM engineers have restored telephone links to the Lau Group and parts of Vanua Levu....

2 people die in NJ home fire a day after moving in

newschannel5 Monday, March 15, 2010 2:34:00 AM CET | info

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Two people who'd moved into a northern New Jersey town house a day earlier have died in a fire that started in their kitchen and spread upstairs....

Power blackout affects much of Chile

msnbc Monday, March 15, 2010 2:07:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) Power blackout[1];

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Entities: Pablo Larraín[1];

Other categories: Natural Disasters;

Cities throughout Chile were without power Sunday evening due to a problem with one of the country's main power grids, according to witnesses and local media....

Power blackout affects much of Chile

alertnet Monday, March 15, 2010 1:48:00 AM CET | info

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SANTIAGO, March 14 (Reuters) - Electric power could return in a matter of hours to Chile, which suffered a massive blackout at about 8:50 p.m. (2350 GMT), Presidency Minister Cristian Larroulet told Chilean television. An aerial view shows thousands attending "Argentina embrace Chile" benefit concert in Buenos Aires March 13, 2010....

15 die in road accident near Sehwan

NewsJang-en Monday, March 15, 2010 1:46:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) accident[1]; road[1]; collision[1];

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Entities: Asif Ali[1];

HYDERABAD: Fifteen people were killed while 35 others, including women and children, sustained injuries in a collision between a truck and a passenger...

National › Three dead, one child severely injured in Nagoya head-on collision

japantoday Monday, March 15, 2010 1:46:00 AM CET | info

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A head-on collision between two cars on a road in Nagoya City on Sunday night killed two men and one child and left one young…...

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Xtreme Coil Establishes Middle East Presence

earthtimes Monday, March 15, 2010 1:39:00 AM CET | info

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CALGARY, ALBERTA -- 03/14/10 -- Xtreme Coil Drilling Corp. (TSX: XDC) and its affiliates ("Xtreme Coil", the "Company") announce a collaboration between Xtreme Coil and Suhayl Abdul Mohsin Al Shoaibi & Sons Holding Company Limited and its affil.....

Letters: RBS is blinded by its own corporate spin and greenwash

guardian Monday, March 15, 2010 1:34:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Kevin Smith[1]; Duncan McLaren[1]; Kevin Watkins[2]; Andrew Cave[1]; Charlie Kronick[1];

Other categories: Alternative Energy; European Training Foundation;

You have to feel a bit of sympathy for Andrew Cave, the head of corporate sustainability at the RBS group ( Response, 11 March). He berates me for claiming that RBS is involved in financing Canadian tar sand exploitation in Alberta. Sadly for him, the bank then chooses the very day his response is.......

Bus overturn kills 11 in China

ruvr-en Monday, March 15, 2010 1:31:00 AM CET | info

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11 people died and 19 were injured when a passenger bus with 30 passengers inside overturned Saturday in China’s northern Jiangxi province after the driver lost control of the vehicle on an icy road. Police are investigating the cause of the accident....

FEATURE-Australian cities must transform for population growth

alertnet Monday, March 15, 2010 1:18:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) gas[2]; monorail[1]; motorist[1]; industrial[1]; rail[2]; train[1]; road[4];

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Entities: Anthony Albanese[1]; Bob Carr[1]; Heather Ridout[1]; James Craig[1]; Mike Young[1]; Michael Perry[2];

Other categories: TEN-T News; Alternative Energy; EU2020; Environment (general); Monetary Issues EU; Climate Change; Financial Crisis; Climate Action - general; Economic Forecasting-EU; Ecology;

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Heather Ridout said: "One of the major frontier issues for Australia over the next decade will be the future of our cities,"

Anthony Albanese said: "It is a tragedy that many parents spend more time travelling to and from work, than at home with their kids. Relieve urban congestion and we improve our quality of life as well as our productivity,"

Bob Carr said: "A bigger Australia doesn't mean deeper soils, it doesn't mean larger river flows, it doesn't mean more rainfall. We're only bigger in one sense -- the increase in the total number of humans crammed into the narrow coastal strip,"

Mike Young said: "Water's going to be critical to the future of Australia, perhaps more than anything else,"

By Michael Perry SYDNEY, March 15 (Reuters) - Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea....

Metro rail biz will account for 30% of our turnover in 2 years

financialexpress Monday, March 15, 2010 1:12:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Delhi Metro[1];

Bangalore-based BEML Ltd, a Rs 3,000 crore mini-ratna PSU, is a multi-technology company offering high-quality products for diverse sectors of economy like coal......

Rights prize for Myanmar film

dailytimesPK Monday, March 15, 2010 1:02:00 AM CET | info

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GENEVA: Films about dissident journalists in Myanmar and dangerous river pollution in French Guiana won the top prizes at a human rights film festival and forum in Geneva, organisers said on Sunday. Danish director Anders Hogsbro Ostergaard won the Grand Prix offered by the state of Geneva for his.......

15 killed, 35 injured in road accident

dailytimesPK Monday, March 15, 2010 1:02:00 AM CET | info

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HYDERABAD: Fifteen people were killed and 35 others including women and children sustained injures in a road accident on the Indus Highway at Lakki Shah Saddar near Sehwan, on Sunday. According to Administrator Jamshoro District Samihuddin Siddiqui, Truck No C-3675 carrying devotees of Hazrat Lal.......

(AHN) Saudi Drivers Top the World in Road Deaths

AHN Monday, March 15, 2010 12:54:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) automobiles[1]; motorbikes[1]; accident[1]; motor[1]; automobile[1]; road[5]; Road[1];

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Entities: Abdul Rahman[1];

Other categories: TEN-T News; Financial Crisis;

World Health Organization (WHO) study finds Saudi Arabia to have the world's highest number of deaths from road accidents, which now make up the country's principal cause of death in adult males aged 16 to 36. - (AHN)...

Inquiry into massive oil leak begins

abc-au Monday, March 15, 2010 12:43:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (ManMadeDisasters) Oil[1]; gas[3]; accident[3]; spill[2]; oil[4];

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