Starting May 1, smoking will be banned in Beijing's catering establishments. Despite the fact that China has 350 million smokers, the country's authorities are determined to hold the 2008 Olympics…
The London-based company Mercer Human Resource Consulting has compiled a ranking of the world's dirtiest cities. The list was based on data on waste recycling rates, air pollution levels, drinking…
The Mexican authorities have banned smoking in most public places. Restrictions for smokers began to be introduced here several years ago. However, every year they became more severe, especially in…
Japan's Ministry of Finance decided to equip all cigarette vending machines with special devices that read customer data by March 1, 2008. It will be possible to buy cigarettes from a vending machine…
Turkish authorities intend to ban smoking in public places. The law, passed by the country's parliament, provides for a ban on smoking in entertainment venues, including cafes and restaurants…
Since January 15, a ban on smoking in hotels of all categories has come into force in Dubai (UAE). From now on, smoking on the territory of Dubai hotels is allowed only outside buildings, as well as…
You must admit, you don't meet a woman who can boast of two husbands every day. Yet my fellow passenger on a Czech train – a Roma woman from a border town in North Bohemia – insisted that in her case…
The authorities of St. Petersburg have launched a pilot project that will help expand the range of medical services provided to the population. In the Moskovsky and Kolpinsky districts of the city…
Cassop Primary School in Durham has been awarded as Britain's 'greenest' school. It has also become the first school in the country to have a wind turbine installed on its grounds.
There are between five and seven thousand languages in the world, and roughly three thousand of them are currently spoken by only three thousand people. Together with these people, in the current…
Undoubtedly, many people on the planet dream of living in New York, whose symbols are the Empire State Building, Broadway, Manhattan, Wall Street, and the Statue of Liberty. However, few people…
The first day of September became a real 'Black Saturday' for many residents of Germany: the so-called 'law on the protection of non-smokers' came into force in the Federal Republic of Germany.