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Japan firm 'told workers to lie about radiation dose'
Jul 21, 2012 (AFP)
A subcontractor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant told workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure in an apparent effort to keep its contrac...
Japan sets compensation for Fukushima evacuees
Jul 20, 2012 (AFP)
Japan on Friday set compensation guidelines for tens of thousands forced to evacuate an area around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant last year, with some ab...
Raytheon technology to transform commercial cargo ships into cutting-edge humanitarian aid delivery platforms
Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon has completed the preliminary design phase of the Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP) program awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Proje...
Two China workers killed in Singapore tunnel accident
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
Two Chinese workers were killed and eight others injured in Singapore Wednesday when scaffolding at a subway construction site collapsed, officials said. It was...
A 'Phoenix' rises from Haiti quake ashes
Jul 13, 2012 (AFP)
Haiti's infamous Cite Soleil, one of the world's most violent and run-down slums, could boast a 15,000-seater stadium and sports complex if one philanthropist's...
Japan govt, media colluded on nuclear: Nobel winner
Jul 12, 2012 (AFP)
Nobel-winning author Kenzaburo Oe said Japan's post-war government and media colluded to give nuclear power a stranglehold, as activists readied for what they h...
Japan pushes ASEAN to lift export restrictions
Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)
Japan pressed Southeast Asian nations on Tuesday to lift curbs on its exports imposed after last year's earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster. Sp...
Report faults Fukushima response
Jul 09, 2012 (UPI)
A Japanese parliamentary panel has determined that the Fukushima plant nuclear crisis was a "man-made" disaster. "It was a profoundly man-made disaster -- that ...
Fukushima was 'man-made' disaster: Japanese probe
Jul 05, 2012 (AFP)
Last year's Fukushima nuclear accident was a man-made disaster caused by Japan's culture of "reflexive obedience" and not just the tsunami that hit the plant, a...
Aussie patrol boats are 'under pressure'
Jul 05, 2012 (UPI)
Nine of Australia's 14 Armidale-class patrol boats based in Darwin are not operational, Minister for Defense Materiel Jason Clare said. The boats out of use are...
Japan Diet to publish Fukushima disaster probe
Jul 05, 2012 (AFP)
A Japanese parliament probe into the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is expected to say the then prime minister fanned chaos in the opening days of the crisis whe...
Jakarta, Canberra boost asylum cooperation
Jul 03, 2012 (UPI)
Indonesia and Australia have agreed to closer cooperation to combat human trafficking, including faster response times to asylum seekers' boats in danger. The b...
Google urges governments to share disaster data
Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)
Google on Monday urged governments to get better at sharing information to allow citizens and first responders to make better use of the Internet during natural...
20 killed as fuel truck crash in China sparks fire
Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)
At least 20 people in China were killed Friday when two trucks collided and sent petrol into a timber mill below the road, causing a massive blaze, authorities ...
Record radiation levels detected at Fukushima reactor
Jun 27, 2012 (AFP)
TEPCO, the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor number ...
Eviction pits Haiti police against protestors
Jun 25, 2012 (AFP)
Clashes broke out in Haiti Monday between police and protestors against government plans to evict them from homes precariously perched on the hills above the ca...
Population displacement during disasters predicted using mobile data
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
Using data supplied by a mobile operator, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have shown that population movements after the 2010 Haiti earthquake followed reg...
Nearly 15 million people displaced by disasters in 2011
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
Floods, storms, earthquakes and a tsunami displaced 14.9 million people last year, 89 percent of them in Asia, according to an estimate by two Norwegian-backed ...
Japan sorry for not using US radiation map
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
A Japanese minister apologised Tuesday for the nation's failure to make use of a United States-made map showing how radiation was spreading from crippled reacto...
Experts discuss better nuclear disaster communication
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
A three-day conference hosted by the UN atomic agency started in Vienna on Monday aimed at improving public communication in a nuclear accident, more than a yea...
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