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Yugoslavia
In Short
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2003
RIGHTS ISSUE: A patent on atta chakkis (flour mills). It sure was unexpected. But it's been granted. The latest victim of the patent rights regime is the Asian traditional knowledge of producing atta. The US patent office has given patent rights to Nebraska-based ConAgra Inc for the "method for producing an atta flour". Significantly, the patent application filed by ConAgra specifies that "the present invention relates to a method of producing Asian breads such as chapati and roti."
CHINA
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2001
The aftermath
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2001
NATO bombing pollution
Issue Date: Sep 30, 1999
yugoslavia faces grave ecological damage after more than three months of warfare as an aftermath of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (nato) bombing , an international humanitarian group was quoted as saying. The Beta news agency said a team of Russian, Austrian, Greek and Swiss experts from the Focus Organisation visited Yugoslavia in July and carried out chemical and radiological analysis in towns that had suffered the heaviest damage.
Price of war
Issue Date: Jun 30, 1999
greenpeace said nato 's (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) bombing of Yugoslavia is not only causing widespread pollution in the Balkans but risking a major nuclear accident. "We are concerned about the missiles that keep striking Bulgaria, with some even reaching Sofia," Stelios Psomas, director of Greenpeace Greece, said in a news conference. He said the bombs were dropping perilously close to Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear plant, risking an accident that would affect the whole continent.
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Issue Date: May 31, 1999
Thousands of people living near the Pancevo industrial zone outside Belgrade have been evacuating their homes for fear that (NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ) strikes may cause an environmental disaster, Serb media said ( Down To Earth , Vol 7 No 24). The state news agency Tanjug said that following a weekend raid on the complex some 20 km northeast of Belgrade, about 80,000 people had been evacuated, but local radio said about 7,000 people had left their homes on the night when the air raids started.
Bombed
Issue Date: May 15, 1999
Smoke and flames rise from the fertiliser plant in Pancevo, some 16 kilometers north of Belgrade on April 18, 1999. NATO jets pounded the refinery and a chemical complex in Pancevo as it continued its campaign of airstrikes against Yugoslavia
War and ecology
Issue Date: May 15, 1999
serb officials have said that strikes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's ( nato) forces on chemical plants and refineries around Belgrade could cause an ecological disaster.
Winter's toll
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1993
Bitter cold and acute food shortages could take a toll of an estimated 30,000 Armenian lives if attempts to open relief corridors through Turkey and Georgia fail, warned President Levon Ter-Petrossian recently. Especially at risk in the nation of 3.5 million are thousands of refugees who fled the fighting in the mountainous Nagorno-Karabagh enclave.
Dam of death
Issue Date: Jan 15, 1993
YUGOSLAV engineers are working desperately
to ease the pressure on
a damaged dam in
Montenegro, to prevent
the release of millions
of tonnes of toxic mining sludge into the
Danube and other
Balkan rivers. Senior
officials working on the
dam'say the impact
would be "disastrous as
it would poison the,
river, killing fish and other aquatic
life". The engineers have completed
a new support dam and are dredging another channel in the river
Tara as part of their efforts to avert
this ecological disaster.
The UN disaster relief agency in
Geneva has mobilised international
