President Barack Obama announced his decision to send 2,500 troops to Australia days after a congressional advisory panel, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, warned of Beijing’s growing military presence in Asia.
Farmers staged sit-in protests at the regional offices of lawmakers of South Korea’s ruling party, demanding no ratification of the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement. Days earlier, anti-FTA protesters stormed the parliament building in Seoul.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said it had begun injecting water and boric acid into Reactor No. 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, after detecting signs of fission which had supposedly achieved a “cold shutdown.”
Thousands of villagers attacked government buildings in the southern Chinese city of Lufeng, Guangdong province, in a protest over the seizure of village lands and their sale to a real estate development firm.
Some 500 villagers in China’s Zhejiang province protested at the factory of Zhejiang Jinko Solar, storming the compound, ransacking offices and overturning vehicles. Villagers charge the factory poisoned their river, killing a large swath of fish.
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Hundreds of activists from throughout South Korea have gathered in force on Jeju Island to hold a “peace event” aimed at halting construction of a naval base slated to be used by US forces—in defiance of a court injunctions against protests.
Authorities boast that radiation readings in the Fukushima area are now a minute fraction of what they were in March. But a new survey shows that 45% of children and infants in the area absorbed radiation.
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication is contacting media outlets and Internet service providers to suppress “irresponsible rumors” about the disaster at Fukushima—where the reactors have still not been brought under control.
The US energy giant ConocoPhillips, operating in a joint agreement with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, was responsible for a devastating oil spill in the Yellow Sea that Chinese authorities hushed up for weeks.
Angry parents held a hundreds-strong march in Japan’s Fukushima city to demand greater protection for their children from radiation—as the government prepares to re-open reactors closed in the wake of the disaster.
Nearly three months after the start of the Fukushima disaster, the stricken reactors have still not been brought under control, and activist demands are growing for the abolition of nuclear power in Japan.
