Posts Tagged ‘ Britain ’

Online Drug Companies Abusing Tsunami Disaster?

March 17, 2011
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Obama Causing Panic? There’s always someone who tries to make money from a disaster.  And this time it’s following Japan’s tsunami, with the threat that Americans might be in danger of the nuclear fallout.  This is likely due to the panic President Barack Obama and his top medical official raised which has led to Americans buying drugs for protection.  Although Obama himself was given the assurance that “any harmful radiation from Japan will have dissipated before it reaches Hawaii...

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What Would King George VI Have Said About Singapore’s Rice Crisis?

March 6, 2011
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Pest storms are devastating rice production in Singapore, which is no good for anyone since this grain is a staple throughout Asia.  This is becoming a threat to the country’s food security and could completely destroy rice farms throughout the region, according to Singapore scientists.  Indeed, there is talk that the pesticides used to counter this problem may be doing the opposite – making it worse.  The problem has partly been caused by trying to go cheap:  use of...

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MoU and KPC

February 24, 2011
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The recent partnership agreement between MoU and KPC comprises: upstream, downstream businesses; R&D in HR and planning and energy security.  At the signing various official dignitaries from Kuwait and the UK were in attendance.  Malcolm Brinded, an executive director at Shell noted how this milestone is “further cementing our partnership with Kuwait.”  There are plans to develop Kuwait’s Jurassic gas fields through developing capacity of Shell and Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) staff.  As the chair and MD of Shell...

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