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Union Minister of Science and Technology & Earth Sciences, Shri Kapil Sibal has said twenty telemetry stations will be set up in the North East to monitor seismic activities. Disclosing this at a news conference in Guwahati yesterday after a three day tour to Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, he said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) will install two such stations in Nagaland, at Mokokchung and Kohima by June 2007
Shri Sibal also revealed that IMD will establish 50 Automatic Weather Stations in the North-East by March next year. Among these, 13 stations will be located in Arunachal Pradesh and eight in Nagaland and will be installed by end of December this year.
Shri Sibal disclosed that the possibility of setting up of three Doppler weather radars for weather forecast in the North-East will be investigated.
Viikki. The decision to build the Viikki Science Park was made in 1993 and two years later the first two Biocentres were erected. Today, the major part of the complex is already completed. By the end of 2004, the buildings in the science park have 160 000 m2 of facilities constructed. Until 2010, there will be 5000 jobs and similar number of students as well as 14 000 inhabitants of the residential neighbourhood. Also thanks to the investment of 150 mil. Euro, the former countryside surrounding of Helsinki has developed into the Silicon Valley of biotechnology.
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Home construction in the Greater Toronto Area was down in September, largely because of a lull in the condominium market, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. But the agency hastened to add that the condo market tends to appear volatile when looked at on a month-to-month basis. And those numbers should soon turn around, said Jason Mercer, the CMHC's senior market analyst for the GTA. He said record numbers of pre-construction condos have been sold over the past two years, which "will convert into a greater number of condominium starts," he said. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of starts was 25,200 in September, down from 32,500 in August. "Multiple family" dwellings (mainly condos) were down 41 per cent, from 18,600 to 11,000.
Even counting the school district employees and their family members who attended the bond issue meeting in Beatty Oct. 4, the turnout was disappointing. Some people commented that it was not adequately publicized, although flyers were posted and sent home with students. School board President Deborah Wescoatt conducted the meeting, starting out by showing a video of school board members and administrators visited to gather ideas for construction of the new high school and two elementary facilities planned for Pahrump. Wescoatt explained that permanent modular construction, which consists of units constructed in the contractor's own plant and then installed on concrete slabs could save the district considerable time and money. Using this approach, she said they should be able to have Floyd Elementary, which will be built using the last of the previous bond issue money, ready to open in August 2007.
The Dong Nai Sheet Roof and Construction Material Joint Stock Company (DONAC) officially listed its shares worth VND121 billion on sale at the Ho Chi Minh City Trade Securities Centre on Oct. 10, becoming the 50th company joining the stock market. Almost 103,000 shares of the company were traded at VND32,000 per share at the first trading session. DONAC is holding 40 percent of roof supply market. Its products have been awarded the Viet Nam Trademark Golden Cup and selected as high quality products by consumers, said Nguyen Cong Ly, President of the company. The company's development plan needs nearly VND2,000 billion in the coming time. .
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