Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
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Australians love the whales!
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Australia’s Minister for the Environment, Malcolm Turnbull, appears on a YouTube video aimed at informing Japanese children about the importance of protecting the whales. In the video, Mr Turnbull explains what an important issue this is to Australia and how children there are taking action to help these magnificent creatures.
Japan has long been one of [...] -
Live Earth, a better world through music
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Live Earth is right around the corner, so I thought I should mention what it is all about in the unlikely case you haven’t heard of it or you’re not as informed about it. The event is described on the official website like so:
“Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 [...] -
Giant Panda Twins Born
Monday, December 25th, 2006
Mei Mei, a Giant Panda on loan from China at Japan’s Adventure World gave birth to twins. Breeding these magnificent animals in captivity is an extremely difficult and highly complicated chore. Often breeders have to try artificial insemination, as there’s only a few of these bamboo eating bears left and they are quite picky when [...]
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Noted News Today
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
EU proposes open postal markets
The European Commission, is making quite a few national postal services in the European Union unhappy. Why? Because it is trying to challenge long standing monopolies. See who agrees and who frowns upon these plans in contempt here.
Rice, in Asia, turns up heat on North Korea
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [...]
