The Japanese National Police Agency have released the latest numbers regarding people leaving the disaster hit areas of Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima prefectures.
At this point more than 150,000 people have left the Tohoku region (where the affected prefectures are). Just a few weeks ago, in January, is was reported that 31,381 people left Fukushima […] Continue Reading…
“…if an ordinary submarine can sit in the Persian Gulf’s bed it would be the worst threat to the enemy. That is one of the U.S. concerns since Iranian submarines are noiseless and can easily evade detection as they are equipped with the sonar evading technology…When the submarine sits on the seabed it can […] Continue Reading…
Russian media claim a Chinese newspaper has published an article that says Iran is sending 15,000 troops to Syria.
The Russians asked several Iranian university and media officials about this: “As far as I know there is not and will not be any program to dispatch Iranian military troops to Syria.”- Reza Moghadasi, Mehr News
“Iran has […] Continue Reading…
Belgium went more than a year without a government, 2010-2011, and there was little civil strife. Now that Belgium has a government almost everyone is striking, including firefighters.
Firefighters went on strike because the new government wants to destroy their retirement program. Riot police were called out, but the firefighters had planned ahead. On February […] Continue Reading…
“This is a particularly exciting and rewarding study because of the new science we have discovered and the potential promise of a therapy for Alzheimer’s disease. Our next objective is to ascertain if it acts similarly in humans.”-Gary Landreth, Case Western Reserve University
Research into a cancer drug called Bexarotene is showing promise as a treatment […] Continue Reading…
The UN’s World Health Organization recently said China was being hit with influenza B. On February 8, officials with the Chinese National Influenza Center said their research shows the current flu B is still preventable with flu shots.
Officials said that the current B strain has not mutated to a drug resistant form. They also […] Continue Reading…
A former park ranger in New Zealand spent two days looking for a Weta.
There are at least 70 types of weta on New Zealand. Most look like big wind scorpions, or gigantis potato bugs, but the one found by the former park ranger looks like a giant cricket.
The one he found is considered the […] Continue Reading…
Iranian media reports that a full scale model of the U.S. RQ-170 stealth drone will be used in upcoming parades celebrating the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Also, Reuters reporting that Iranian officials answered U.S. President Barack Obama’s demands to have the drone sent back to the U.S., by sending him a small hot […] Continue Reading…
Eastman Kodak, a U.S. pioneer in camera and film production since 1880, and the first company to make a digital camera, will no longer make cameras of any kind.
Kodak went bankrupt in January 2012. At least 400 employees in New York will lose their jobs. The company will focus on its lagging printer brand […] Continue Reading…
Forget the European Union crisis, Japan’s sovereign debt (such as government bonds) is now almost double that of Italy, and more than Greece. Some analysts say there is not enough money in Japan to pay the debt.
NHK interviewed two Japanese economic/finance analysts. One, Hiromichi Shirakawa, of Credit Suisse, said Japan’s economic problems are not […] Continue Reading…