December 19, 2011
Residents wade through floodwaters among the debris of destroyed houses in Cagayan de Oroon, after tropical storm Washi swept the southern Philippines. The Philippines prepared for mass burials of flash-flood victims Monday to minimize the health risk from rotting cadavers after a disaster that has left many hundreds dead or missing. Hard-pressed authorities in [...]
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November 19, 2011
An undated file photo taken at the Toyota Vietnam plant. Toyota President Akio Toyoda said last week the company isn’t considering reducing investment in Thailand. Japanese companies, Thailand’s biggest foreign investors, may spend more to build factories in neighbors including Indonesia and Vietnam after the worst flooding in 70 years disrupted global production. “Executives recognize [...]
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May 31, 2011
Japan’s economy offered more signs of recovery from the deadly March earthquake on Tuesday, but Moody’s ratings agency warned both growth and government action may fall short of what is necessary to bring Tokyo’s ballooning debt back under control. Industrial output rose 1 percent last month after a record plunge immediately after the magnitude [...]
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April 23, 2011
This photo, provided by Philippine Military, shows an aerial shot of a landslide that occurred in the isolated town of Kingking, in a mountainous area of the resource-rich but poor and violence-plagued southern island of Mindanao. Rescuers clawed through dirt in a desperate search for survivors a day after a landslide buried workers in mining [...]
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April 18, 2011
Volodymyr Palkin, 69, a former employee of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and now a patient in Kiev's radiological hospital displaying his picture taken at the plant some 25 years before. Every year, Volodymyr Palkin spends at least two months in a Kiev hospital. He was one of hundreds of thousands of rescue workers sent [...]
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April 4, 2011
This handout picture taken on April 1, 2011 shows workers spraying resin on the ground near the reactor buildings to protect the spread of radioactive substances at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (AFP PHOTO / HO / TEPCO VIA JIJI PRESS) Emergency crew at Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear plant used a color dye Monday to [...]
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April 3, 2011
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) bows as he speaks to tsunami victim Ryoko Otsubo during his visit to an evacuees shelter in Rikuzentakata, after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami April 2, 2011 Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered [...]
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March 26, 2011
 Morning commuters wait in line for a bus outside an East Japan Railways Co. train station after Tokyo Electric Co. announced the power outages in Urayasu city, Japan, on Monday, March 14, 2011 As the horrific power of nature’s shock and awe operation was unleashed on Japan last week, captured graphically by amateur [...]
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March 20, 2011
A woman is screened for radiation at a screening centre in Koriyama, Fukushima prefecture on March 20, 2011 Japan restored power to a crippled nuclear reactor on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a plant wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one [...]
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March 13, 2011
Evacuees hold blankets as they stand in a line to enter a temporary shelter after radiation leaked from an earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor, in Koriyama, northeastern Japan March 12, 2011 Japan faced a fresh radiation threat at an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant on Sunday after the cooling system failed at a second reactor in what could [...]
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