The previously undisclosed hiring of welders from the US and South-east Asia underscores the way Tokyo Electric outsourced its riskiest work.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao defended six-party talks proposed by Beijing as the way to defuse volatile divisions on the Korean peninsula.
Japan will pump radioactive water into the sea from a crippled nuclear plant until Sunday, a day later than previously planned.
Japan’s prime minister made his first visit to the country’s tsunami-devastated region on Saturday and entered a nuclear exclusion zone.
Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm.
Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged.
Japan faced a potential catastrophe on Tuesday after a nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating towards Tokyo.
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/ 14 November 2010
Leaders agreed to establish a free trade area in the world’s fastest growing region with China warning that economic recovery was not certain.
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/ 18 October 2010
The world cannot afford to allow nature’s riches to disappear, the United Nations said on Monday.
Advice to university Vice-chancellors: A successful tenure at an institution amounts to being at the right book launches, presiding and pontificating.