The Tokyo Electric Power Company released a study finding that melted fuel at the Fukushima No. 1 reactor has nearly reached the steel wall under the concrete at the base of the containment structure—with a full meltdown possibly imminent.
Waves of wildcat strikes continue to spread across China’s industrial heartland, with factories paralyzed in Guangdong province and job actions spreading to Zhejiang and Shanghai. Management has been forced to negotiate with workers’ councils.
In factory towns across China's Pearl River Delta industrial zone, thousands of workers walked off the job in response to belt-tightening measures, while thousands of local peasants marched on government offices to protest land seizures.
With Occupation protests now underway in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and even Hong Kong, authorities in mainland China have banned web search terms such as “Occupy Beijing,” “Occupy Shanghai” and “Occupy Guangdong.”
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.
We recently noted China‘s aggressive embrace of the pathological, dystopian car culture first pioneered by the West. Now comes another sign of this cultural retrogression. From RTTNews, Sept. 16: China Detains General’s Teenage Son Over Road Rage Incident The teenage… Read moreScion of China’s elite abuses proles in “road rage” incident
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.
