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Radioactive Mushrooms Cloud Compensation Plans
- Inter Press Service
The discovery of radioactive contamination in ‘shiitake’ mushrooms grown in Manazuru town, Kanagawa prefecture, some 300 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has raised public clamour for compensation.
Community Radio Tunes Into Ad Revenues in India
- Inter Press Service
Community Radio (CR) broadcasting in India, long bound by red tape, has received a fillip with the government announcing a hike in advertising tariffs and the auction of licenses.
Gales, Cyclones Follow the Tsunami
- Inter Press Service
The gentle waves of Weligama bay that lap at the small, tight-knit fishing village of Kaparratota, 140 km south of Colombo, can be deceptive.
JAPAN: Trust Deficit - Worst Fallout of Fukushima
- Inter Press Service
Kazuya Tarukawa, 36, left a secure job in the Japanese capital to tend to his family’s organic farm located 100 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor.
JAPAN: Tsunami Brings Sea Change to Tohoku
- Inter Press Service
Yumi Goto, 60, lives with her husband in a temporary shelter on a windy hill that overlooks vast stretches of tsunami-devastated seacoast where her home was once located.
JAPAN: Pushing Nuclear Exports After Fukushima
- Inter Press Service
Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar. 11, last year.
JAPAN: New Year Brings Economic Aftershocks
- Inter Press Service
Hideo Sato, 47, and his family escaped to this snowy city 200 km from the radiation emitting Fuksuhima power plant that was struck by a massive earthquake-driven tsunami on Mar. 11.
SRI LANKA: Tsunami Demons Haunt the Coast
- Inter Press Service
Seven years after monster waves crashed into homes, hotels and vehicles on Sri Lanka’s coast, people in this island nation continue to be haunted by demons from the sea.
JAPAN: Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
- Inter Press Service
Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11.
Floods Leave Thai Economy Gasping
- Inter Press Service
No guns are needed in this battle. Only the muscle of Thai soldiers defending a sprawling industrial estate on the eastern end of this city from an advancing enemy - flood waters.
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