Almost a year after North Korea tested an atomic weapon, the nation's leader pledged to permanently shut-down nuclear operations by year's end and pursue peace with South Korea, as the two nations wrapped up their historic summit as the world's last cold war opponents.
A Swedish company will help convert South Korean wastewater that used to dump into the ocean, into biogas, a type of clean fuel that can be used as power to heat buildings and even power vehicles.
"South Korea announced a campaign Monday to promote bicycle use as a way to cope with heavy traffic, air pollution and soaring global oil prices. The ministry said it will increase the number of bicycle-only roads and bicycle racks and revise related ordinances."
Canadian Premier Dalton McGuinty has signed a landmark agreement with a South Korean consortium to generate 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power in Ontario, providing clean electricity to 580,000 households and 16,000 new jobs over six years.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah will convene a meeting next week of the world's major oil producers to discuss ways of dealing with soaring fuel prices. King Abdullah "acknowledged that the current oil price is abnormally high, due to speculative factors, and he is willing to do what he can to manage the price of oil to the adequate level."
The Saudi King said Monday his country will donate $1 billion to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after the devastating Israeli offensive halted recently by a fragile ceasefire. The King said his country's $1 billion donation for Gaza would go to a proposed fund Arabs are setting up to rebuild the seaside territory.
The first fully integrated co-ed university opened yesterday in Saudi Arabia. The school, which focuses, on sciences gives all students a full scholarship plus a stipend.
Former foes Congo and Rwanda have agreed to a joint project to produce 200 megawatts of power from methane gas reservoirs in the lake on their shared border, a senior Congolese power official said on Friday.
Egypt's prime minister says Qatar has agreed to invest $18 billion in Egypt over the next five years. The funds aim to help revive Egypt's battered economy and lure back foreign investment that has all but disappeared since last year's uprising.
The citywide bike-sharing program embraced by Parisians and tourists that started one year ago was so successful that the mayor is proposing a four-wheeled version, using electric cars.
Electric trams, low-cost bicycle rentals, dedicated bus lanes and, before long, commuter buses. Paris has pulled out all stops in its efforts to offer environmentally friendly ways of getting around town.
Paris is digging deep -- nearly two kilometres deep -- to tap into hot water that will provide ecologically clean heating for the city creating geo-thermal energy
Norway's Prime Minister announced Tuesday that Oslo will donate up to a billion dollars to a Brazilian fund devoted to rescuing the Amazon rain forest. Norway, the first country to pledge money to the fund, will donate as much as $130 million next year.
Biomethane from human waste will soon power public transportation in Norway's capital city. Starting in September 2009, the methane gas normally contributing to Global Warming, will be captured from one of Oslo's sewage plants and converted into biomethane fuel to run 200 of the city's public buses.
For the first time in more than half a century, trains crossed from South to North Korea on Thursday through a sunny opening in Cold War politics, and launched by a "celebration with fireworks, bands, balloons and hundreds of people waving the 'unification' flag".
In an encouraging sign for relations between the two countries, North Korea has handed over the remains of six U.S. servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War to a U.S. delegation led by Democratic presidential candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
Negotiators from six countries reached a tentative agreement about initial steps for North Korea's nuclear disarmament...
"North Korea offered its gratitude for oil given as a reward for shutting down its sole nuclear reactor, as it joined talks Tuesday with the U.S. and other countries to hash out further details of the agreed energy aid for progress on disarmament." (CS Monitor)
President Bush says he will lift key trade sanctions against North Korea and remove it from the U.S. terrorism blacklist, a remarkable turnaround in policy toward the communist regime he once branded as part of an 'axis of evil.'
In another sign of North Korea striving to thaw its cold war image, regular traffic over the border between North and South Korea will be restored this week to allow the flow of goods from a joint industrial park that had been isolated since December.
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