07 April 2013 (20:33 UTC-07 Tango 06 April 2013)/26 Jumada l-Ula 1434/18 Farvardin 1391/27 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Nanjing joins Hangzhou and Shanghai in banning live poultry markets.
In Hong Kong, health officials say a seven years old girl brought in to hospital Friday afternoon, tested negative for H7N9.
In Taiwan, health officials have tested six people […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013 (13:12 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1392/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The prefecture of Fukushima is revealing that the sludge generated at their sewage treatment plants continue to show radiation contamination.
At this point they have 68000 tons of radioactive sludge built up. Other prefectures are reporting similar radioactive sludge.
This is proof […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
U.S. led NATO troops and contractors killed. ISAF said: “Three International Security Assistance Force service members and two coalition civilians died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today.”
In Zabul Province, a suicide bomber targeted a U.S. led provincial reconstruction team […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013 (10:46 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Health officials in Shanghai say two more people are infected with H7N9. So far 18 people infected in the past couple of weeks, six have died.
The two new cases are men, one aged 66 the other 74. They began showing […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013 (02:00 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1392/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) reports a strontium leak around the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.
TEPCo says they discovered a large inground waste water holding tank/pool is leaking. The water is contaminated with deadly strontium. So far 120 […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013 (01:53 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
A Russian fleet has just passed India, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. This after the ECB and IMF took over Cyprus with a bailout that is raiding bank accounts and keeping Russia from taking part in the Block […] Continue Reading…
Reader’s Digest bankrupt. RDA Holding, the company that owns the little magazine, blames the bankruptcy on lost sales due to internet media.
YMCA in South Brunswick, New Jersey, bankrupt: “Like so many businesses and organizations in our area, the South Brunswick Family YMCA has been adversely affected by the economic recession.”
In Virginia, Arlington County is […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013 (00:36 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The Yonhap News Agency reporting that the DPRK’s Korean Central TV Broadcasting just aired a report on a meeting of industrial workers, which took place on 17 March.
Kim Jong-un is heard telling the factory workers “Once the war breaks out, […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013 (00:26 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1392/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization is warning that most farmers in Asia are not aware of the new H7N9 bird flu virus.
The FAO says word needs to get out to the farmers that H7N9 is not like H5N1, in […] Continue Reading…
06 April 2013 (19:45 UTC-07 Tango 05 April 2013)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1391/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
“I’ve never heard anyone make a direct threat to Guam. My response was: ‘Wow, they can find Guam on the map? Most Americans can’t.'”-C.J. Urquico, 19 year resident on Guam
At the end of March the governor of […] Continue Reading…