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Bahrain: Migrant Workers Denied Pay, Right to Travel

Posted by Human Rights Watch on 04/11/2009

(New York) - Bahrain's Labor Ministry should hold employers who withhold wages and passports from migrant employees accountable, Human Rights Watch said today. Both practices are illegal under Bahraini law, but authorities do little to enforce compliance. read more

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Blueprints of worlds largest indoor golf arena suggest its green credentials

Posted by DeshRaj on 29/10/2009

Zwarts Jansma, architects from Amsterdam in New Zealand, have just recently procured the state-of-the-art design for the worlds largest indoor golf arena. The WAN Awards 2009 entrant design utilizes 14,000 sq. m of training facilities on...

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London Assembly wishes to convert trash into electricity for 2 million London homes

Posted by AditiJ on 28/10/2009

London desires to make treasure from trash. The London Assembly is looking forward to convert everything that cannot be recycled into electricity. This transformation could be easily done by breaking matter down using bacteria and "thermal...

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NBCUA wastewater treatment plant gets a unique solar power system

Posted by AditiJ on 21/10/2009

Sharp Solar Energy Solutions, a division of Sharp Electronics Corporation, collaborated with Vanguard Energy Partners and proclaimed the installation of 344-kilowatt solar power system at the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority wastewater...

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Egyptian ecolodge is both green and medieval

Posted by DeshRaj on 16/10/2009

Paris architects, Laetitia Delubac and Christian Felix have recently completed an ecolodge in Siwa, Egypt. Local masons utilizing kershef, a locally found building material made out of mud, sand and sun-dried salt harvested from the Siwas salt...

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