Debate fumes over plan to clean up the soil at Kai Tak

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Environmental and civic groups in Hong Kong have expressed extreme disapproval on the proposed construction of a residential and commercial site in the Southeast Kowloon area in Hong Kong. According to environmentalists, the soil that runs through the site is contaminated by jet fuels, solvents and lubricants emitted from the nearby Kai Tak Airport. They further argue that the standards of the proposed project are too low to ensure safe living. Government officials likewise admitted that prolonged exposure to these substances may lead to liver damage, lung cancer and other central nervous disorders.

Airports, flying fields, & services, Airports, Airport Operations, Toxic Substances Control, Economic aspects, Environmental aspects, Buildings and facilities, Hong Kong, Poisons, Fuel, Fuels, Kai Tak International Airport

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Lessons in austerity

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Universities and colleges across the US are having to take steps to mitigate the impact of the financial crisis in Asia on their Asian students. They are keen to ensure that existing Asian students can remain in the US, and are looking to ease these students' financial burden. They are also considering how they can ensure that enrolments from Asia do not decline dramatically. However, all universities and colleges have already seen falling enrolments from Asia.

Finance, Asian students

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Thai farmers soak fields with pesticides - and avoid eating crops from their own land

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Many Thai farmers intentionally use dangerously excessive doses of pesticides to kill crop-eating insects. The farmers are aware of the risks to their own health as well as to consumers but they continue the practice, concerned solely with the money they can get for good-looking produce. The Thai government has been trying to educate farmers about the need to curb the use of agricultural chemicals but the program has seen only limited success.

Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing, Pesticides & Other Ag Chemicals, Agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Pesticides Control, Usage, Practice, Thailand, Pesticides, Farmers

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