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| | | | |  Japanese residents mark the quake, seven days after it struck | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Japan raises the accident level at a stricken nuclear plant from four to five on a seven-point international danger scale for atomic accidents. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The moment that Japanese residents will not forget | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Australian police fire tear gas to subdue rioting asylum seekers at the Christmas Island detention centre following days of unrest there. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  China, along with other countries, has advised its nationals in Japan to leave the country following the devastating earthquake and tsunami. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Shares of Hutchison Whampoa, the world's largest shipping container terminal operator, slide on their market debut. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  More than 16,000 people are either confirmed dead or listed as missing after the quake and tsunami devastated Japan on 11 March. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  G7 finance ministers agree on the first co-ordinated intervention in the currency markets since 2000 to cut yen volatility. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Mohamed Bin Hammam announces he intends to stand against Sepp Blatter in the Fifa presidential election in June. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Emergency workers battle to cool and restore power to reactors at Japan's quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant but say progress is slow. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The Bank of Japan pumps another 3 trillion yen into the country's financial markets. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Prince William offers condolences to the people of Japan, while paying tribute to victims of last month's earthquake in New Zealand. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Japanese shares climb after Japan says G7 finance ministers have agreed on joint intervention to stabilise the yen. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Engineers have connected a power line to Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, allowing cooling pumps to be restarted, the IAEA says. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  How economic effects of the disaster are being felt across Asia | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Nissan resumes some of its car production in Japan, less than a week after an earthquake and a tsunami severely damaged the country. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A mail bomb is sent to an Indonesian singer - the fourth incident targeting prominent people who have called for religious tolerance in under a week. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  People ordered to leave the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, have been taking refuge in a municipal sports hall in Yamagata. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  More footage has emerged of the tsunami reaching the port town of Miyako City in Iwate Prefecture. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The Japanese yen hits a post-WWII record against the US dollar as stocks slide amid radiation and earnings concerns. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Heightened security and unrest is reported around a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwestern China after a monk self-immolates. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  China suspends approval for new nuclear power stations following the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  A Christian lawyer in Malaysia loses her bid to practise in the country's Shariah Islamic court system. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Prince William visits the damaged centre of Christchurch, as he begins a tour of disaster-stricken areas of New Zealand and Australia. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Malaysian police say they have seized materials that they suspect could be used to make nuclear weapons on a ship bound from China to the Middle East. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Malaysian police say they have seized suspected bomb-making materials on a ship bound from China to the Middle East. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Japan is stepping up efforts to cool reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, amid increasing US alarm at radiation leaks. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Destruction of railways and power plants to delay Japan growth | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Prince William begins a tour of disaster-stricken areas of New Zealand and Australia, beginning with a visit to the quake-hit city of Christchurch. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Despite the ongoing crisis in Japan the yen briefly passes its previous US dollar high of April 1995. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Increasing alarm is expressed in the US about the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with warnings of "potentially lethal" radiation doses there. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis bitterly criticises official handling of the evacuation, as engineers race to avert a catastrophe. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The world's largest online child abuse ring - with links to 30 countries including Australia, Thailand and New Zealand - has been smashed, police say. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  The Japanese tsunami killed thousands of albatrosses and other species when it struck a nature sanctuary on Midway atoll, northwest of Hawaii. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Japan's Emperor Akihito says in a highly unusual TV address he is "deeply worried" about the nuclear crisis his country is facing following last Friday's quake and tsunami. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Such was the scale of last Friday's tsunami that sizeable waves reached right across the Pacific basin to New Zealand and the Antarctic, say NZ researchers. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Foreign firms are evacuating staff in Japan to safer distances, amid fears of a radiation leak. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Cambodian police ask prosecutors to charge a recruitment firm with illegally detaining its staff, amid serious allegations by employees. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Rugby World Cup matches scheduled for quake-hit Christchurch are to be moved. | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Seven Rugby World Cup matches scheduled for earthquake-hit Christchurch are to be moved to other venues in New Zealand. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Japanese stocks rose 5.7% as bargain hunters move in after two days of heavy losses follow Friday's earthquake and tsunami. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  China Mobile, the world's biggest mobile operator, says its profits increased as more music and video was downloaded. | | | | | |
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| | | | |  Malaysia's government agrees to release 35,000 Bibles, held at customs for months amid a dispute over the use of the word "Allah" in reference to God. | | | | | |
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