11 April 2013 (22:26 UTC-07 Tango 10 April 2013)/30 Jumada l-Ula 1434/22 Farvardin 1391/02 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
“Because of the situation in North Korea, all tours are canceled from now. We will announce when tours begin again as soon as we get official information from North Korea.”-China based travel agency Explore North Korea statement
“We […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2013/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1391/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
In Ghor Province, an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier shot and wounded two Lithuanian/ISAF troops, using an RPG. Government officials said the ANA was conducting a roadblock, and a Lithuanian/ISAF convoy refused to stop. The ANA soldier fired an RPG destroying an ISAF […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2013 (15:00 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1391/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
“California could get new investment worth hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars from China by the end of 2020.”-Wang Chao, China’s Vice-Minister of Commerce
The city of Shanghai, and the provinces of Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong and Chongqing have signed a $1.4 […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2013 (14:40 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1391/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
ROK TV broadcaster, KBS, reporting that their website went offline, three times today. They do not know why.
10 April 2013 (14:35 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1391/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
The ROK bank, NongHyup Bank, reporting that its internet banking service is paralyzed. They do not know why. Technicians are working at their operating system location in Anseong, they hope to have it solved before tomorrow.
10 April 2013 (14:27 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1391/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Shanghai health officials reporting new human cases, now at 33. A 76 years old woman developed symptoms on 01 April, then went into hospital on 05 April. Another woman, an 81 years old farmer, she had symptoms of gastroenteritis […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2013 (02:38 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1391/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases says 375 new cases of rubella were reported at the end of March. Between January and March 2905 cases reported, 25 times more than the same time last year!
Health officials say 90% of the […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2013 (02:29 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1391/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Chinese and Japanese researchers have made independent reports, indicating the new H7N9 is rapidly mutating. This could explain the difficulty in detecting it.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo said H7N9 samples from four Chinese victims showed noticeable differences in gene […] Continue Reading…
10 April 2013 (02:13 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Jumada l-Ula 1434/21 Farvardin 1392/01 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been ordered to stop using in-ground waste water ponds to store radiative water. Three ponds are now leaking (several hundreds of tons so far) and some of the contamination includes strontium.
TEPCo said they used the […] Continue Reading…
Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks furloughs 100 shipyard workers, pending federal government budget cuts. Also, the Pearl Harbor shipyard threatening to layoff 350 employees!
12 firefighters in Lorain, Ohio, now unemployed. City officials blamed the expiration of a federal grant.
Giant City School District, in Illinois, laid off 14 employees. School officials blame massive state funding cuts. And […] Continue Reading…