http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Earth_Continents_Asia-Pacific_18_197_684.html Press Review of the Earth from the most relevant websites. Keep in touch with the Earth and your future ! fr-FR http://www.earth-stream.com/logo-stream-Earth.png http://www.earth-stream.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:06 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Societe-Generale-Corporate-&-Investment-Banking-Selects-SOX-XL-Software-Suite-for-End-User-Computing-Controls-and-Monitoring_18_197_684_231289.html BOSTON and LONDON, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- CIMCON Software Inc., the Pioneering Market Leader in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions for End User Computing (EUC), today announced that Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has selected the SOX-XL suite of tools for spreadsheet and database monitoring and controls. At the core of Societe Generale's universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with 12,000 professionals present in over 40 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:05 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/VimpelCom-To-Release-Fourth-Quarter-and-Annual-2009-Financial-and-Operating-Results-on-Thursday-March-18-2010_18_197_684_231286.html MOSCOW and NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Open Joint Stock Company "Vimpel-Communications" ("VimpelCom" or the "Company") (NYSE: VIP), a leading international provider of telecommunications services operating in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and South-East Asia today announced that it will webcast its conference call on its fourth quarter and annual 2009 financial and operating results on Thursday, March 18, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:07:15 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Turtles-Face-Extinction-on-Malaysian-Shores_18_197_684_231244.html Conservationists said on Wednesday that Malaysia's voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:12:39 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/New-Oriental-to-Hold-Annual-General-Meeting-on-April-19-2010_18_197_684_231210.html BEIJING, March 11 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:08:33 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Upgrades-and-Replacements-of-Ageing-Systems-Fuel-Growth-in-the-Asia-Pacific-Land-Defense-Systems-Market-Finds-Frost-&-Sullivan_18_197_684_231181.html SINGAPORE, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The growing need to implement modern technologies to replace ageing equipment has boosted the prospects of the Asia Pacific land defense systems market. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:23:58 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/NASA-NOAA-Step-Up-Climate-Education_18_197_684_230999.html With opponents of U.S. climate action sowing doubt about science and climate scientists, federal agencies are putting the data online and explaining it in simple language to help the public understand. NASA recently launched its latest site, “A Warming World,” with a series of videos, images and articles looking at the bigger picture of Earth’s warming trend. It’s part of NASA’s larger "Global Climate Change: NASA's Eyes on the Earth" site, which opens with a glance at the planet’s vital signs, clearly highlighting the reason for global concern: Arctic sea ice: Down 11.2% per decade since measurements began in the 1970s Sea level: Up 57 mm since 1993 Global temperature: Up 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880 Carbon dioxide: Up to 388 ppm from 325 ppm in the 1960s The NASA sites join NOAA’s new climate.gov, which is filled with more graphs and articles explaining subjects from ocean acidification to changing monsoon patterns in Asia to how climate as a long-term measure differs from day-to-day weather. The articles link to more in-depth material and data for readers to research the numbers. Some also explain how the raw data has been skewed for political purposes, such as singling out the hot El Nino year of 1998 as a benchmark to say global temperatures have been cooling over the past decade, when in fact the long-term numbers show a warming trend. As Sen. Barbara Boxer put it in a recent congressional hearing: These are actual measurements that can’t be argued away by people opposed to greenhouse gas regulations. Most of the data and scientific explanations were already available, but the new sites make them easier to access with less technical writing styles and more videos and graphs. NOAA’s new Climate Service, which Administrator Jane Lubchenco hopes to have in place by October, will be responsible for sharing the government’s vast stores of data with the public. "One of the reasons we created the NOAA Climate Ser ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:53 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Savvis-Expands-Cloud-Infrastructure-Solutions-in-Asia-Pacific_18_197_684_230868.html Drive data center consolidation -- Rein in server sprawl, curtail overbuying and tackle underutilization of serversRespond to seasonality and unexpected events -- Scalable resources are available on-demand and with flexible business termsGreater control and on-demand -- Self service management and reporting through a client portal and on-demand provisioning to provide greater control Testing and development made easy -- Ability to dial-up pools of temporary resources, resulting in cost control and the opportunity to avoid large capital expendituresControl IT costs while maintaining QoS Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:53 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Savvis-Appoints-Managing-Director-for-North-Asia_18_197_684_230867.html TOKYO, March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Savvis, Inc. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:00:54 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Mile-High-Mega-Kites-Could-Pull-Giant-Floating-Power-Plants_18_197_684_230780.html Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:53:22 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Earthquake-In-Chile-A-Complicated-Fracture_18_197_684_230717.html A jumping rupture processThe extremely strong earthquake in Chile on February 27 this year was a complicated rupture process, as scientists from the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences found out. Quakes with such magnitude virtually penetrate the entire Earth's crust. After closer analysis of the seismic waves radiated by this earthquake during the first 134 seconds after start of the rupture, the researchers came to the conclusion that only the region around the actual epicenter was active during the first minutes. In the second minute the active zone moved north towards Santiago. After that the region south of Concepción became active for a short time. This rupturing trend agrees well with the distribution of the aftershocks during the following three days, as observed by the GEOFON-measuring network of the GFZ up to 03.03.2010.In the year 1960, the strongest earthquake measured at all to date, with a magnitude of M=9.5, had its origin at Valdivia, south of the region affected now. "The quake of 27 February connects directly to the rupture process of Valdivia", explains Professor Jochen Zschau, Director of the Section "Earthquake Risk and Early Warning" at the GFZ. "With this, one of the last two seismic gaps along the west coast of South America might now be closed. With the exception of one last section, found in North Chile, the entire earth crust before the west coast of South America has been ruptured within the last 150 years."The underlying plate tectonic procedure is such that the Nazca-Plate as part of the Pacific Ocean Floor moves eastwards with approximately seventy millimeters per year, collides with South America and thereby pushes under the continent. The hereby developing earthquakes belong to the strongest world-wide. In the course of about one century, the Earth's ruptures completely in a number of strong quakes from Patagonia in the South to Panama in the North. Even Darwin reported, in his diary, of the strong earthquake in Conc ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:08:21 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/UMC-Reports-Sales-for-February-2010_18_197_684_230595.html TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 9 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: UMC; TAIEX: 2303), (UMC) today reported unaudited net sales for the month of February 2010. Revenues for February 2010 Period 2010 2009 Y/Y Change Y/Y(%) M/M(%) February 8,634,850 3,143,826 +5,491,024 +174.66% +0.4% Jan.-Feb. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:44:05 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Interview-Asia-should-seek-common-carbon-market_18_197_684_230480.html Emerging Asian CO2 markets should link up to ensure sufficient liquidity, a Korean expert said. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:17:12 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/How-Far-Did-South-American-Cities-Move-During-Chile-Quake-_18_197_684_230472.html The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America as far apart as the Falkland Islands and Fortaleza, Brazil.These preliminary measurements, produced from data gathered by researchers from four universities and several agencies, including geophysicists on the ground in Chile, paint a much clearer picture of the power behind this temblor, believed to be the fifth-most-powerful since instruments have been available to measure seismic shifts.Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina and across the continent from the quake’s epicenter, moved about 1 inch to the west.   And Chile’s capital, Santiago, moved about 11 inches to the west-southwest.  The cities of Valparaiso and Mendoza, Argentina, northeast of Concepcion, also moved significantly.The quake’s epicenter was in a region of South America that’s part of the so-called “ring of fire,” an area of major seismic stresses which encircles the Pacific Ocean.  All along this line, the tectonic plates on which the continents move press against each other at fault zones.The February Chilean quake occurred where the Nazca tectonic plate was squeezed under, or “subducted,” below the adjacent South American plate.  Quakes routinely relieve pent-up geologic pressures in these convergence zones.The research team deduced the cities’ movement by comparing precise GPS (global positioning satellite) locations known prior to the major quake to those almost 10 days later.  The US Geological Survey reported that there have been dozens of aftershocks, many exceeding magnitude 6.0 or greater, since the initial event February 27.Mike Bevis, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, has led a project since 1993 that has been measuring crustal motion and deformation in the Central and Southern Andes.  The effort, called the Central and Southern Andes GPS Project, or C ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:04:18 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/QNAP-Expands-Business-Series-with-New-4-drive-TS-459U-RP-and-TS-459U-SP-Rack-Mounted-Turbo-NAS-Servers_18_197_684_230422.html POMONA, Calif., March 8 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- QNAP Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of world class NAS servers, NVR Video Surveillance Systems, and Network-based Video Players today expanded their popular Business Series Turbo NAS lineup with two new 1U rack-mounted, 4-drive models, the TS-459U-SP and TS-459U-RP. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:47:31 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Kia-Unveils-the-Venga-Electric-Concept-Car-It-Looks-Production-Ready-_18_197_684_230396.html Photo: Kia South-Korean Automakers Could Help Make EVs More Affordable I have a love/hate relationship with concept cars. It's always fun to see what automotive engineers can come up with, and they have a lot more freedom to innovate with concept cars than with production models, but a lot of the time, the results can be impractical and/or silly, and you just know that they'll never make a production version. That's why I'm happy to see that Kia's electric car concept is based on a production model. Read on for the technical specs....Read the full story on TreeHugger Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:35:51 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/It-s-Twins-Mama-Elephant-Gives-Birth-To-First-Known-Male-Twins-in-Thailand_18_197_684_230344.html Image via HaPPi Like A HiPPo Happy - and very unusual - news! Delivered to a cheering crowd, two male calves were born in the north-eastern province of Surin to a 35-year-old mother named Phang Thong Khun. They're the very first known male twins, and follow the birth of a set of female twins born in Thailand 15 years ago. But while the world celebrates their birth and they add to the very low count of elephants in Thailand, the boys aren't out of the woods yet. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:19:45 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Improved-El-Niño-Tracking-Reveals-Marine-Life-Reductions_18_197_684_229592.html The ongoing El Niño of 2010 is affecting north Pacific Ocean ecosystems in ways that could affect the West Coast fishing industry, according to scientists at NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.Researchers with the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) at Scripps and NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center report a stronger than normal northward movement of warm water up the Southern California coast, a high sea-level event in January and low abundances of plankton and pelagic fish - all conditions consistent with El Niño. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:07:53 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Spreadtrum-Communications-Inc-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Fiscal-2009-Results_18_197_684_229544.html SHANGHAI, March 3 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:18:17 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/eLong-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2009-Unaudited-Financial-Results_18_197_684_229523.html BEIJING, March 3 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- eLong, Inc. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:06:41 GMT http://www.earth-stream.com/Earth/Continents/Asia-Pacific/Warming-coastal-water-thinning-marine-populations-Tracking-of-2010-el-niño-reveals-marine-life-reductions_18_197_684_229508.html The ongoing El Niño of 2010 is affecting north Pacific Ocean ecosystems in ways that could affect the West Coast fishing industry, according to scientists. Researchers report a stronger than normal northward movement of warm water up the Southern California coast, a high sea-level event in January and low abundances of plankton and pelagic fish -- all conditions consistent with El Niño.