Asian Tsunami Disaster News

Japanese high school students and carvers from Chile pose before a new "Moai" statue , modelled on the mysterious carvings at Easter Island, as it was set at the tsunami-devastated town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan on May 25, 2013.

A giant statue from Chile's Easter Island on Saturday found a new home in a small tsunami-devastated Japanese town where it will become a symbol for its recovery.

TOKYO : Yen trading was volatile in Asia on Friday in tandem with wild swings on the Tokyo stock market, but some analysts said the Japanese currency's weakening trend was likely to continue.

It was a grim day on global markets yesterday after the release of disappointing manufacturing survey data from China and renewed concern that the US could start to cut back on its cash injections.

I almost wrote that Thailand's hero of the week is social media, after the news last week of a 17-year-old girl rescued from prostitution in South Korea after she used Facebook to alert authorities.

The American Red Cross has a huge relief response to Oklahoma and other surrounding communities underway and Big Y World Class Market is doing its part to send help and hope to those in need.

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda speaks at the 19th International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo, Friday, May 24, 2013.

Shares in Tokyo closed 0.89 percent higher today in a rollercoaster session that came a day after the Nikkei suffered its worst one-day drop since Japan's March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster.

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Asian markets fell Thursday with Tokyo plunging more than seven percent as investors took profits after weak Chinese data and signs the US Federal Reserve could start tapering off its massive stimulus measures.

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Thai shares and the baht yesterday took a hit from China's disappointing manufacturing output and mounting concerns that the US Federal Reserve will taper its asset-buying scheme to dampen demand for emerging markets' assets.

London, May 23 : Petra Nemcova has gone bra-less in sheer lace lingerie as she made a spectacular return to modelling.

John Piper, the recently retired pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, has made a cottage industry out of attributing natural disasters to God's vindictive will.

The biggest plunge in Japanese stock prices since a 2011 earthquake and tsunami was a temporary pullback that will not derail the government's "Abenomics" policy of loose money and fiscal stimulus, officials said on Thursday.

The operator of Tokyo Skytree is considering issuing annual observatory entrance passes, Michiaki Suzuki, president of Tobu Tower Skytree Co., said in an interview.

Japan's nuclear watchdog on Wednesday endorsed a panel's conclusion that a seismic fault running underneath one of two reactors at an atomic plant in western Japan is active, making the reactor's restart virtually impossible.

The IAEA, supported by the Government of Japan, will designate a new Response and Assistance Network Capacity Building Centre in Fukushima next week, according to a news release from the UN nuclear watchdog.

Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a local official said Wednesday.

Hundreds of people living just outside Japan's Fukushima prefecture say they have been denied adequate compensation after the country's 2011 nuclear disaster despite suffering elevated radiation levels.