COMO PREVENIR A INEVITÁVEL MUDANÇA CLIMÁTICA

Os desastres naturais são mais frequentes e ferozes na Ásia meridional...

POTALA PALACE - TIBET

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THE BIG GAMBLE IN SAUDI DESERT

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/326/5951/354

TIBET-GREENING THE PLATEAU

http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/business-in-china/100163957-1-greening-plateau.html

MACAU TAIPA-COLOANE WETLAND RESERVE

Science 12 June 2009:Vol. 324. no. 5933, pp. 1373 - 1374DOI: 10.1126/science.324_1373

Macau Launches Late Bid to Cure Its Pearl River Delta BluesRichard Stone
Macau, a gambling haven known more for unbridled development than for ecological awareness, passed a milestone on an uncertain road to sustainability this year with the creation of the Taipa-Coloane Wetland Reserve. Another milestone will be passed on 29 June, when Macau establishes an Environmental Protection Bureau. The 10-year-old Macau Environment Council has no authority to enforce laws; the bureau that will supplant it, on the other hand, will have full rein to go after polluters.

UNIVERSITY OF MACAU

Science 22 May 2009:Vol. 324. no. 5930, p. 1011DOI: 10.1126/science.324_1011

News Focus
China:
An Unprecedented Dilemma: One University, Two Political SystemsRichard Stone
Macau is planning to build a new campus for the University of Macau on Hengqin Island; the catch is that Hengqin is part of mainland China, so the new campus may no longer come under Macau's legal and administrative system. At stake are academic freedoms and an open social milieu that Macau residents enjoy and most Chinese do not: unfettered Internet access, for instance, and a legal system that excludes capital punishment.

HISTORIC CENTRE OF MACAO

http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/china/macao/map.html

GLOBAL WARMING AND ASIA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/world/asia/27climate.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=global%20warming&st=cse

ARANUI LIMESTONE CAVES - NEW ZEALAND

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LENDAS DA ÍNDIA

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GOA

Igrejas e Conventos são Património Mundial:Sé Catedral,Basílica do Bom Jesus,Santo Agostinho,Santa Mónica,S.Caetano,S.Francisco de Assis.

BURJ DUBAI

Vai ser o edifício mais alto do mundo-512 metros. Mas é capaz de não se ficar por aqui,pois o desejo,o sonho,era que chegasse aos 700 metros. Ficará,assim,destronado o Taipei 101,de Taiwan,com 508 metros. Faz isto lembrar uma competição,coisa muito humana,para o bem e parao mal.
Mas é bonito saber que, neste caso do Burj Dubai,o arquitecto e engenheiros são dos EUA,a empresa construtora é da Coreia do Sul,os assessores da segurança são australianos,o designer é de Singapura e a maior parte dos operários(4000) são da Índia.