According to the preliminary report of the Central Statistical Office of 1991, the rural areas account for 58 percent of the population while the urban areas account for 42 percent.

The Philippines lacks 21,000 scientists, a situation which badly impacts on the countrys economy, an official of the Department of Science and Technology told The Manila Times.

VietNamNet Bridge - When flash flooding last weekend hit an unexpecting hamlet, it took 19 lives with it and wiped out 20 households. Reports from Lao Cai Province and Ha Giang Province .

As a record-breaking and increasingly deadly tornado season wreaked havoc across middle America this summer, researchers have been testing a new, high-tech radar system that could help forecasters better pinpoint when, where and how a twister — or any o

Reporters interested in the upcoming Acoustics '08 Paris meeting in France are invited to visit the ASA World Wide Press Room (http://www.acoustics.org/press). On this site are posted dozens of lay language papers selected from among the 3,500 talks and