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desalination

Từ khóa: desalination (the process of removing the dissolved salts from sea water so that it becomes suitable for drinking water or for agricultural irrigation.)

A leading Australian economist says spending billions of dollars to build water desalination plants in a bid to drought-proof cities is a waste of money.

The Australian National University's Economics Professor Quentin Grafton says a better solution is to put up the price of water.

He was speaking at an international conference held last weekend in Canberra, to look at planning for drought in expectation of climate change.

Mời đọc thêm:
Desalination 'a waste of money', warns Australian economist

pioneered

Từ khóa: pioneered (one of those who are first or earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress: pioneers in cancer research.)

The largest producer of solar panels in Australia is closing down and moving its operations off-shore.
BP Solar is an offshoot of British petroleum giant BP, and it says it can't afford to make solar panels in Australia.
It means the loss of 200 jobs and is another blow to an industry struggling to find its place in one of the sunniest countries on earth.
Australia has not only lost another solar energy company but perhaps its last hope of becoming a leader in a technology field it pioneered.

Mời đọc thêm: Australia loses out on solar production

bionics

Từ khóa: bionics (of or relating to body parts or functions replaced or imposed by electronic equipment: a bionic hand.)

This week, Australia is hosting the world's first medical bionics conference, bringing together more than 150 experts on bionics from 12 countries.
Twenty years ago, researchers in Australia revolutionised life for the deaf community by developing the first bionic ear - the cochlear implant.
It can help profoundly deaf people to hear and communicate.
Bionics has moved on a lot since then, with scientists hard at work on bionic eyes, therapies to help paralysed people regain movement and even treatments for diseases of the brain.

Mời đọc thêm:
Bionic experts meet in Australia

landmark

Từ khóa: landmark (of or relating to a decision, alteration to a law, etc., with important and long-lasting consequences.)

Hundreds of exiled Tibetan leaders have arrived in Dharamsala in northern India for landmark talks on the future direction of the Tibetan government in exile.
This week's talks were called by Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who has said new ideas are needed after negotiations with Beijing on autonomy have repeatedly failed.
Envoy Lodi Gyari said Beijing rejected a detailed plan on how Tibetans could achieve a form of autonomy within the framework of the Chinese constitution. China has dismissed this week's meeting as meaningless, saying the participants' views aren't representative.

Mời đọc thêm:
Tibetan exiles begin historic talks on China

disempowerment

Từ khóa: disempowerment (power or authority taken away)

Dozens of young people from Asia, Africa and the Middle East met in East Timor for a three-day conference looking at the role of youth in nation-building.
75 per cent of East Timor’s 1 million people are under 30, and at least half are under 15.
The meeting was sponsored by the East Timorese government and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and aimed to help young East Timorese overcome their feelings of exclusion and disempowerment.

Mời đọc thêm
Talks on East Timor youth role in nation-building

joint venture

Từ khóa: joint venture (an enterprise for which two or more parties join forces (not necessarily in partnership or by the formation of a company).

Thousands of people in Cambodia will be tested for HIV-AIDS over the next two weeks.
It's part of a global bid to test a million people world wide by World AIDS Day on December the first.
In Cambodia, the project is a joint venture between the government and the international charity, AIDS Health Foundation, or AHF.
The testing work has already begun, taking advantage of the huge crowds visiting the capital Phnom Penh for the annual Water Festival.

Mời đọc thêm:
Cambodia joins international HIV test effort

extinct

Từ khóa: extinct ((of a species) without a living representative)

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, American scientists have tracked down a mouse-sized primate that hasn't been seen in the wild for more than 80 years.
The pygmy tarsier, as its known, is a fluffy little creature with enormous eyes and splayed fingers like a frog; but, being a primate, it's related to monkeys, apes, lemurs, and people.
It's found in other parts of Asia, but until the American researchers stumbled across it in a remote mountain forest, no one had seen an Indonesian tarsier since 1921, and there were fears it had become extinct.

Mời đọc thêm:
Miniature primate rediscovered in remote Indonesia

desalination.

Từ khóa: desalination (the process of removing the dissolved salts from sea water so that it becomes suitable for drinking water or for agricultural irrigation.)

A leading Australian economist says spending billions of dollars to build water desalination plants in a bid to drought-proof cities is a waste of money.

The Australian National University's Economics Professor Quentin Grafton says a better solution is to put up the price of water.

He was speaking at an international conference held last weekend in Canberra, to look at planning for drought in expectation of climate change.

Mời đọc thêm:
Desalination 'a waste of money', warns Australian economist

pioneered

Từ khóa: pioneered (one of those who are first or earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress: pioneers in cancer research.)

The largest producer of solar panels in Australia is closing down and moving its operations off-shore.
BP Solar is an offshoot of British petroleum giant BP, and it says it can't afford to make solar panels in Australia.
It means the loss of 200 jobs and is another blow to an industry struggling to find its place in one of the sunniest countries on earth.
Australia has not only lost another solar energy company but perhaps its last hope of becoming a leader in a technology field it pioneered.

Mời đọc thêm: Australia loses out on solar production

bionics

Từ khóa: bionics (of or relating to body parts or functions replaced or imposed by electronic equipment: a bionic hand.)

This week, Australia is hosting the world's first medical bionics conference, bringing together more than 150 experts on bionics from 12 countries.
Twenty years ago, researchers in Australia revolutionised life for the deaf community by developing the first bionic ear - the cochlear implant.
It can help profoundly deaf people to hear and communicate.
Bionics has moved on a lot since then, with scientists hard at work on bionic eyes, therapies to help paralysed people regain movement and even treatments for diseases of the brain.

Mời đọc thêm:
Bionic experts meet in Australia

landmark.

Từ khóa: landmark (of or relating to a decision, alteration to a law, etc., with important and long-lasting consequences.)

Hundreds of exiled Tibetan leaders have arrived in Dharamsala in northern India for landmark talks on the future direction of the Tibetan government in exile.
This week's talks were called by Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who has said new ideas are needed after negotiations with Beijing on autonomy have repeatedly failed.
Envoy Lodi Gyari said Beijing rejected a detailed plan on how Tibetans could achieve a form of autonomy within the framework of the Chinese constitution. China has dismissed this week's meeting as meaningless, saying the participants' views aren't representative.

Mời đọc thêm:
Tibetan exiles begin historic talks on China

disempowerment.

Từ khóa: disempowerment (power or authority taken away)

Dozens of young people from Asia, Africa and the Middle East met in East Timor for a three-day conference looking at the role of youth in nation-building.
75 per cent of East Timor’s 1 million people are under 30, and at least half are under 15.
The meeting was sponsored by the East Timorese government and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and aimed to help young East Timorese overcome their feelings of exclusion and disempowerment.

Mời đọc thêm
Talks on East Timor youth role in nation-building

joint venture.

Từ khóa: joint venture (an enterprise for which two or more parties join forces (not necessarily in partnership or by the formation of a company).

Thousands of people in Cambodia will be tested for HIV-AIDS over the next two weeks.
It's part of a global bid to test a million people world wide by World AIDS Day on December the first.
In Cambodia, the project is a joint venture between the government and the international charity, AIDS Health Foundation, or AHF.
The testing work has already begun, taking advantage of the huge crowds visiting the capital Phnom Penh for the annual Water Festival.

Mời đọc thêm:
Cambodia joins international HIV test effort

extinct.

Từ khóa: extinct ((of a species) without a living representative)

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, American scientists have tracked down a mouse-sized primate that hasn't been seen in the wild for more than 80 years.
The pygmy tarsier, as its known, is a fluffy little creature with enormous eyes and splayed fingers like a frog; but, being a primate, it's related to monkeys, apes, lemurs, and people.
It's found in other parts of Asia, but until the American researchers stumbled across it in a remote mountain forest, no one had seen an Indonesian tarsier since 1921, and there were fears it had become extinct.

Mời đọc thêm:
Miniature primate rediscovered in remote Indonesia