Japan plant must be scrapped, says PM: Kyodo

Japan plant must be scrapped, says PM: Kyodo


Japan plant must be scrapped, says PM: Kyodo

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:50 AM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that the stricken nuclear plant at the centre of the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986 must be scrapped, Kyodo news reported on Thursday.

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Choose dialogue or war, N. Korea tells South

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:49 AM PDT

North Korea told South Korea Thursday to choose between dialogue or war, as Seoul made its first concession on aid since the North's deadly bombardment of a border island last November.

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Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:38 AM PDT


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U.S. military radiation experts to visit Japan - Kyodo

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:44 AM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - About 140 U.S. military radiation safety experts will soon visit Japan to provide help as the nation deals with a stricken nuclear plant, Kyodo news agency said on Thursday, quoting an defense ministry official.



Q+A - What is going on at Japan's damaged nuclear reactor?

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:44 AM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.



Japan PM: need to scrap quake-hit nuclear plant - Kyodo

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:44 AM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Thursday that the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northeastern Japan needs to be decommissioned, Kyodo news agency reported.



U.S. support order, defection could buoy Libya rebels

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:44 AM PDT

WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. officials said President Barack Obama had authorised covert support for Libyan rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi, while Libya's foreign minister defected, potentially tipping the scales toward the opposition.



China military policy paper lays out worries about U.S.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:13 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it faced an increasingly "volatile" Asian region where the United States has expanded its strategic footprint, maintaining that better military ties between Beijing and Washington rested on respect for each other's interests.



Likely S.Korean presidential contender turns against incumbent

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:42 PM PDT

SEOUL (Reuters) - The front-runner to become South Korea's next leader has slammed President Lee Myung-bak's decision to cancel a regional airport project, a move that analysts said could thwart Lee's effort to pass legislation in the final one-third of his five-year term.



Sarkozy could make run-off vote in 2012 - poll

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:42 PM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy could make it into the second, run-off round of France's presidential election next year, a survey showed on Thursday.



Pressure mounts on Japan to widen nuclear exclusion zone

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:42 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Pressure mounted on Japan on Thursday to expand the evacuation zone around its stricken nuclear power plant while officials said radiation may be flowing continuously into the nearby sea, where contamination was now 4,000 times the legal limit.



VIDEO: Libyan foreign minister flees to UK

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:03 PM PDT

Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa is in Britain and "no longer willing" to work for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime, the Foreign Office has said.


Presure mounts on Japan to widen nuclear exclusion zone

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:11 PM PDT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Pressure mounted on Japan on Thursday to expand the evacuation zone around its stricken nuclear power plant while officials said radiation may be flowing continuously into the nearby sea, where contamination was now 4,000 times the legal limit.



650 nomination forms for Sarawak election sold

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Six hundred and fifty nomination forms for the 10th Sarawak state election have been sold as of noon today since March 25.

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Govt should consider scholarships for those from challenging background

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:39 PM PDT

Students who have not scored full As in Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) and Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examinations but still obtained good grades despite coming from challenging background should be given consideration for government scholarships, MIC President Datuk G. Palanivel said.

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DAP to announce its list of candidates over the weekend

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:39 PM PDT

The DAP will announce its list of 15 candidates for the Sarawak election over the weekend.

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Get permit for mobile voter verification unit, council tells DAP

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:39 PM PDT

The Sibu Municipal Council (SMC) is seeing red over DAP Sibu branch for not getting a permit from the council to operate its mobile voter verification unit.

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Two survive as Australia plane falls out of sky

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:33 PM PDT

Two members of a prominent Australian farming family were fighting for their lives Thursday after a light plane "fell out of the sky" and killed the other four people on board.

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Thai military join flood rescue

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:32 PM PDT

Thai troops joined the search for victims of deadly mudslides that engulfed homes in the flood-hit south, officials said Thursday, as naval boats rescued hundreds of tourists stuck on holiday islands.

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France, US call for flexible exchange rates at G20

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:32 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday called for more flexible exchange rate regimes at a G20 meeting on global monetary reform in China.

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