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...miracle, at root, will mean becoming a first-rate technological power. China's road ahead was on display earlier this month in Shanghai, when a San Francisco - based company called the Cleantech Group hosted a venture-capital forum aimed at driving investment dollars toward alternative-energy entrepreneurs on the mainland. Opportunities appear to be plentiful, despite the dim economic environment. Forum attendee Patrick Tam, CEO of Beijing Tsing Capital, says he is investing heavily in Chinese clean-tech companies - most recently in a Beijing firm called NetPower Technologies, which makes a battery that helps power-hungry businesses reduce their electricity...
...almost 300 crew in 14 vessels adrift at sea remained hostage to Somali pirates. Clearly, these guys are not your regular Hollywood folk. In the coming days, the Bush administration will propose a resolution in the United Nations (UN) that would allow foreign forces to follow pirates into mainland Africa and fight them in the coastal towns where they hide between their seaborne adventures. Although some countries are reluctant to support an initiative that would redefine the Law of the Sea, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is expected to present a draft to the Security Council early next week. Moreover...
...city's largest poultry farms after 60 chickens were found dead. Putting the city on "serious alert" for further outbreaks, Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok announced a 21-day shutdown of the local poultry industry, suspending all live chicken imports from mainland China, which supplies about half its live wholesale markets, and culling 80,000 birds from farms near the outbreak's locus. York said Tuesday that there were no reports of humans sickened by the virus, and that the government had not yet determined whether the birds were infected with the potentially lethal...
...among wild birds in the city, this week's incident is the first outbreak on a Hong Kong farm since 2002, when nearly a million birds were slaughtered after dozens died of the flu. No human cases were reported that year in Hong Kong, but two people died in mainland China from the virus in 2003. (Globally, 246 fatal cases have been reported to date, according to WHO.) Hong Kong has since taken aggressive measures to limit outbreaks by vaccinating birds against the virus and reducing the number of live-poultry sellers licensed to operated in the city...
...because some of the chickens killed by the virus appear to have been vaccinated against it, according to the government. Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association and an expert on infectious disease, says that Hong Kong uses an older version of the H5 vaccine than mainland China, where there are more frequent outbreaks and farmers vaccinate poultry specifically against the H5N1 strain of the virus. (See pictures of Hong Kong from...