Positive news from South Korea
S.Korea makes arrests in illegal whale trade ring
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police have arrested three fishermen who are suspected of running a ring that traded in illegal whale meat, a coast guard official said on Tuesday.
South Korea prohibits commercial whaling and can send poachers to jail for up to three years. It allows the trade in whales caught accidentally by fishing crews or in whales that have washed up dead near its shores.
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Rare Sandpipers Found in MyanmarCoast of Myanmar - Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar (Burma), offering hope for the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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UN agency confirms N. Korea reactor shutdownSeoul, North Korea - The UN's nuclear watchdog confirmed Monday that North Korea has shut the reactor which produces bomb-making plutonium ... |
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China closes ozone depleting chemical plants as part of UN initiativeChiangshou, Jiangsu, China - China, the world's largest producer of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) and halon, has shut down five of its six remaining plants as part of international efforts to phase-out the two ozone depleting chemicals, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said. |
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First train to cross DMZ sparks celebration in KoreaMunsan Station, South Korea - Crowds cheered while a small group of protesters wept Thursday as the first train to cross the inter-Korean border in 56 years set off from Munsan Station Thursday. |
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South Korea hot for solar energyShinan, South Korea - The town of Shinan in South Korea is to play to host to the world’s largest solar power plant, following government plans to generate 10 per cent of the country’s energy from renewable sources by 2020. |
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Nations Reach Tentative Deal on North Korea WeaponsBeijing, China - Negotiators from six countries reached a tentative agreement about initial steps for North Korea's nuclear disarmament Monday, the first concrete steps achieved in nearly three years of negotiations. |
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Seoul to Give 100,000 Tons of Rice to North KoreaSeoul, Korea - The government will begin shipping 100,000 tons of rice and other emergency relief supplies to North Korea before the end of this month to help repair damages from recent flooding there, a senior government official said Sunday. |
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- China, world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses, will tax carbon
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- Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific bans shark fins as air cargo
- Chinese police ‘smash’ trafficking gangs, frees 181
- China to ban shark fin soup from official functions
- 75% of Japan’s NW Pacific whale hunt unsold: official
- South Korea adopts greenhouse gas regulations
- Amazon removes whale meat products from Japanese site
- North Korea agrees to nuclear moratorium
- Shark Fin Soup Off The Menu At China Luxury Hotels