Category: Asia

Japan’s Crisis & Chernobyl’s Legacy

Ghost City Symbolises Cost of Nuclear Disaster. "Careful -- do not touch anything with your bare hands!" warned the guide

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Japan Visitors Down By Two Thirds

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's earthquake-tsunami and the ongoing nuclear crisis have slashed the number of foreigners travelling to its

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Playgrounds Checked For Radiation

Japanese officials have started measuring radiation levels in some school playgrounds amid fears the Fukushima nuclear plant might be

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Japan: Caesium Found In Fish

Traces of radioactive caesium have been found for the first time in fish off Japan's east coast. It is believed

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Japan’s Fishing Industry In Crisis

TOKYO – Fishermen who lost their homes and boats in Japan's tsunami now fear radioactive water gushing into the

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Sea Radiation 7.5 M Times Over Legal

TOKYO - Radiation in seawater at the shoreline off Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant has measured several million times

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Storms Kill 13 In Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh – News reports say tropical storms that tore through parts of Bangladesh have killed 13 people and

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5.4 Quake Shakes Sunda Strait

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.4 earthquake hit Indonesia's Sunda Strait on Tuesday, shaking buildings in the capital Jakarta,

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Toyota Shutdowns Inevitable

NEW YORK (AFP) – Toyota said Monday that stopping some production in its US car plants was inevitable after

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Japan To Review Food Distribution

Tokyo (CNN) -- The Japanese government is re-evaluating restrictions on the sale and distribution of produce in areas where

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