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Renewable energy for the Pacific Islands was bolstered this week with the signing of a new Trust Fund Agreement between the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Republic of Kazakhstan, that included a voluntary contribution to ESCAP of US$ 200,000.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCAP Executive Secretary, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar acknowledged the strengthened partnership and welcomed the new trust fund agreement in support of renewable energy in the Pacific Islands.
The Capacity Development Trust Fund Agreement between ESCAP and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan will support development of biogas-based renewable energy solutions in the Pacific Islands, following initial discussions between ESCAP and the Government of Kazakhstan at the Third International Conference for Small Island Developing States, in Samoa, in September 2014.
Food, water and energy security are key priorities for the election campaign of Kazakhstan in the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council 2017-18 biennium, noted H.E. Mr. Marat Yessenbayev, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Bangkok during the ceremony.
The project will focus on the installation and rollout of sanitation and energy systems in ten small island developing states (SIDS), which include: Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Tonga. This is based on successful experiences and lessons from existing biogas approaches in the Pacific.
The Republic of Kazakhstan is an important partner and emerging donor of ESCAP, providing its support to technical cooperation work in areas of environment, energy and financing for sustainable development, and through hosting ESCAPs Subregional Office for North and Central Asia in Almaty.
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With more than 7,100 islands, the country is hit by an average of 20 typhoons or tropical storms each year.
MANILA: Typhoon Hagupit was on Sunday churning across the Philippines, the latest in a never-ending series of often-deadly storms that plague the Southeast Asian archipelago.
With more than 7,100 islands, the country is hit by an average of 20 typhoons or tropical storms each year.
The storms are created above the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean near the equator, and the Philippines islands are often the first major landmass they hit as they move northwest.
The following are the 10 deadliest typhoons on record in the Philippines*.
1. Super Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm ever recorded on land, destroys entire towns across the central Philippines on November 8, 2013. When the government stopped its count months later, more than 7,350 people were listed as dead or missing.
2. Tropical Storm Thelma unleashes flash floods on the central city of Ormoc on Leyte island on November 15, 1991, killing more than 5,100.
3. Typhoon Bopha smashes into the main southern island of Mindanao on December 3, 2012. Rarely hit by major storms, the unprepared region suffers about 1,900 people dead or missing.
4. Typhoon Ike hits the central Philippines on August 31, 1984, killing 1,363 people.
5. Typhoon Washi hits the northern part of Mindanao island on December 16, 2011, killing at least 1,080 people.
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TAREMPA, RIAU ISLANDS: As the Indonesian Navy blew up three Vietnamese boats for illegally fishing in Indonesian waters on Friday, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said such drastic measures would not lead to conflict with other countries in the region.
This is not a war between countries. This is about people stealing our fish and these thieves are businesspeople, Susi told reporters on the sidelines of an anticorruption day celebration at her office.
Susi said the decision to sink illegal ships operated by foreign fishermen was worthy punishment for their crimes and that the Indonesian government had a legal foundation to take such measures.
Article 69 of Law No. 45/2009 on fisheries stipulates that the coast guard can sink foreign vessels operating illegally in the countrys territorial waters based on sufficient preliminary evidence.
Earlier on Friday, in Tanjung Pedas waters near Siantan Island in Anambas Islands regency, Riau Islands province, the Navy destroyed the three Vietnamese fishing boats.
The boats, which were seized by the Navy on Nov. 2, were fired at from a distance by Navy ships until they were sunk.
The Navys Frogmen Command (Kopaska) also attached explosives to the boats.
Dozens of high-ranking officers with the Navy, the Maritime Security Coordinating Board (Bakorkamla) and Anambas Islands regency administration witnessed the sinking of the boats, by the Navys fast patrol boats, KRI Todak and KRI Barakuda, and a Sigma-class Corvette, the KRI Sultan Hasanuddin.
We blew up the boats after the Ranai District Court declared that the ships were seized and were subject to being destroyed, said Rear Admiral Widodo, the commander of the Navys Western Fleet Command.
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Pacific islands package lethargy like few other places. Encased in sluggish heat and a warm ocean, they're typically places where doing nothing can feel like doing everything. But what happens when doing nothing isn't enough?
Crawl off the beach towel and there are opportunities on many Pacific islands for particular, and often unique, adventure activities.
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For 30 years Pa Teuruaa has been guiding hikers across Rarotonga's imposing mountain interior. Often walking barefoot and in a loincloth, the dreadlocked septuagenarian has traversed the island on foot more than 4000 times, leading visitors into the rugged heart behind Rarotonga's ring of beaches.
Pa's Cross-Island Trek ascends 400 metres from one side of Rarotonga to the serrated ridge that forms the spine of the island. The climb begins among trackside crops the likes of watercress and taro but moves quickly into the cloud forest that smothers Rarotonga's interior. It's a steep climb at times, but it's not long.
Atop the ridge, the trail passes beneath the Needle, one of the island's most striking rock formations and an ancient place of worship look at one side of the towering rock and you'll notice that it's been carved into the face of a god.
Far below you can see out over Rarotonga's airport to lines of waves smashing onto the island's reef.
A natural healer when he's not on the trail, Pa is one of Rarotonga's true characters. He walks silently he only talks to God when he walks, he tells hikers but at the regular stops he's effusive with stories. He's led the Dalai Lama across the island, and once guided a woman across on her 96th birthday they planted a coconut palm on the ridge to celebrate the occasion.
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Remote and jungle-clad Koh Kood (aka Ko Kut) sits in the eastern Gulf of Thailand not far from Cambodia. Its beaches are whistle-clean and still mercifully free of jet-skis, and while Koh Kood might have no ATMs or Seven-Elevens, nor have its shores been strip-mined for tourism as in parts of neighbouring Koh Chang. The island's scattering of quality resorts includes beachfront Cham's House at Haad Takien and the sprawling Soneva Kiri (soneva.com/soneva-kiri). There's quality diving and snorkelling, some river kayaking, and just enough to do for visitors who don't want much to do. Fly to Trat, then transfer by ferry. See kohkood.com
Many Thais don't even know where this snoozy Andaman coast island is and one is almost reluctant to spill the beans. Phayam (pronounced "pie-am") has no cars or roads, only light motorcycles and footpaths. Instead of large hotels there are mostly bungalow resorts, the friendliest one being Bamboo Bungalows (bamboo-bungalows.com) at Aow Yai Beach on the languid west coast. The island has internet, fair food and empty beaches, and so far, few bars or full-moon freaks. It is too often admired with the hex, "Just like Phuket 30 years ago," so see Phayam before "progress" indeed Phukets it. Reach there by 40-minute speedboat from Ranong. See kohphayam.org
As the closest resort island to Bangkok, you might expect Koh Samet to be hectic with party people. Not so, in part because the island is a national park (which hasn't stopped them building dozens of resorts on it). Little Samet is off Rayong, in the Gulf, three hours' drive southeast of the capital. Its beaches are clean and relatively tranquil, and offer plenty of eating-drinking-music chances. Accommodation ranges from budget bungalows to upmarket resorts like Ao Prao (aopraoresortkohsamet.com). Mid-week is siesta-like but weekends are much busier with Bangkok escapees. Catch the ferry from Ban Phe pier; foreigners pay 400 baht ($14) park entrance fee. See kosamet.net
The insular twins of Koh Yao Noi (Little Long Island) and Koh Yao Yai (Big Long Island) float amid those lavish, dreaming dragon isles of Phangnga Bay. Midway between (and a world apart from) Phuket and Krabi, the islands still run on slow-boat time and boast few beer bars or day spas. It's not a Robinson Crusoe experience, however, with both islands having several good resorts, such as Koh Yao Yai Village (kohyaoyaivillage.com) and the luxurious Six Senses Yao Noi (sixsenses.com/yao-noi). The beaches are nothing spectacular, but you can visit villages, rubber plantations and fish farms for a view of true island life. It's a one-hour boat trip from Phuket's Bang Rong. See phuket.com/island/kohyao
Mu Koh Similan, a beautiful, nine-island archipelago in the Andaman Sea, north of Phuket, is a Thai marine national park whose waters, with visibility of up to 30 metres, offer some of the best diving and snorkelling in Asia. There are swim-throughs, superb corals and a huge variety of fish, including morays, mantas, grouper and reef sharks. Accommodation is limited to tents and a few bungalows on Koh Miang Island; book well ahead through an agent (khaolaklife.com/similan-islands) but avoid busy Thai holidays. Speedboats depart from Tap Lamu near Khao Lak, with the trip taking 90 minutes. The islands are open November to May but closed during monsoon. See similanislands.com
To the north of Koh Similan is another marine park group, the Edenic, densely forested Mu Koh Surin islands, whose only permanent dwellers are Moken "sea gypsies." Again, the main draw card for visitors is beneath the sea where the water, free of coastal run-off, is stunningly clear and there are special "underwater trails" for snorkelers. Divers on live-aboard boats see the very best of the area's reefs, as well as nearby Richelieu Rock with its whale sharks, rays and hammerheads. Island accommodation is limited to tent sites and several bungalows near the park headquarters on North Island; book well ahead (khaolaklife.com/surin-islands). Speedboats depart from Khuraburi for the 60-km, 90-minute crossing. The islands are open November to May. See surinislands.com
The writer travelled as a guest of the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the named accommodation.
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The 410 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband initiative is celebrating the completion of a major subsea telecoms project with BT which will bring faster fibre broadband to Scotlands most remote communities.
The Digital Scotland partners were in Millport, on the Isle of Cumbrae, this week to mark the successful installation of 250 miles of fibre optic cabling across 20 seabed crossings. It has been hailed by BT as the most complex sub-sea engineering challenge it has ever undertaken in UK waters.
Millport is one of 40 island and mainland locations, stretching from Orkney to Kintyre, which form essential links for a fibre network being built to bring high-speed fibre broadband to 84 percent of the Highlands and Islands by the end of 2016.
The 26.9 million subsea project is part of the 146 million Digital Highlands and Islands rollout which will make faster, more reliable services available to more than 150,000 premises across the regions mainly rural communities for the first time.
Scotland's deputy first minister John Swinney said: Today marks an incredibly important step in the completion of the most complex ever underwater engineering that Scotland has seen. It is a hugely impressive technological feat that work has been completed in such a short timescale.
In the coming months, thanks to the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme, many island communities will start to benefit from fibre broadband that otherwise would not have received coverage."
Work will now continue on land to complete the main network, linking the subsea connections together. The first island communities to connect directly as a result of the new subsea links will go live during spring next year. Local people will have access to fibre broadband speeds of up to 80mbps, around 10 times faster than the current top speeds available on most Scottish islands, many of which are currently connected by radio links.
The subsea rollout work started in July, with the contract carried out for BT by French specialist cable laying firm Orange Marine. Its ship, the 14,000-tonne Rene Descarte (pictured), with its submersible plough, remotely operated vehicles and other support vessels buried double-armoured cable in the seabed.
As well as the subsea work, the onshore activity to connect the cables to BTs terrestrial network is being being carried out by Hampshire-based A-2-Sea Solutions.
The longest subsea route is nearly 50 miles long under the Minch from Ullapool to Stornoway, with the shortest covering the one mile leap between Ardgour on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula and Onich, south of Fort William.
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Typhoon Hagupit swirls to the east of the Philippine Islands in this image captured by NASAs Terra satellite on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. (Source: NASA)
Super Typhoon Hagupitis swirling off the coast of the Philippine Islands today with maximum sustained winds of about 170 miles per hour and gustsof more than 200 (as of 11a.m. EST).
Itlooks like the cyclone, known as Ruby in the Philippines,is headed for landfall there some time on Saturday.
Source: JTWC
The U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center and the PhilippinePAGASA agency disagree on Hagupits exact track, but the storm is likely to hit the area devastated by Super Typhoon Hayan. Click on the thumbnail at right for the JTWCs latest forecast track. And click here for PAGASAs forecast.
The good news is that Hagupit is likely toweaken quite a bit before landfall, thanks to wind shear and cooler ocean temperatures closer to the coast. The bad news is that high winds, storm surges, and landslides from torrential rains are all quite possible.
The typhoon intensified rapidly yesterday. Today it features a well defined eye, as seen in the image at the top of this, acquired by NASAs Terra satellite today. The Philippine islands are to the left side of the image.
Ocean conditions this year are very different from last. As reported by Jeff Masters, chief meteorologist for Weather Underground, Haiyan intensified into a Category 5 super typhoon with 195 mph sustained winds. . .on November 7, 2013 fueled by unusually warm sub-surface waters.
This year, there is less heat energy in the Western Pacific to fuel typhoons, thanks to a slowly developing El Nio. Trade winds, which blow from east to west, have weakened. This has allowed warm waters in the Western Pacific to slosh eastward, toward South America.
Today, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center upped the odds of a full-fledged El Nio developing this winter. Last month they pegged the odds at less than 60 percent. Todays assessment puts it at 65 percent. But as in previous reports, the CPC says it is likely to be a weak event.
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