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SOMA, Japan – High levels of radiation leaked from a crippled nuclear plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan after a third reactor was rocked by an explosion Tuesday and a fourth caught fire in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe. The government warned 140,000 people nearby to stay indoors to avoid exposure.
Tokyo also reported slightly elevated radiation levels, but officials said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) away.
Video compilation of disaster in Japan
Shocking Footage Houses on Fire in Tsunami Waves Japan Earthquake 8.9 3-11-11
Anwar, Azizah to ‘woo’ Sabahans and Sarawakians
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| PKR is bent on changing the perception of Sabahans and Sarawakians that the party is no different from its rival Umno |
KOTA KINABALU: PKR leaders Anwar Ibrahim and wife Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail are aiming to change the perceptions that the party is not keen to hear the cry of Sabahans and Sarawakians for autonomy as pledged in the 1963 Malaysia Agreement, but long broken by the federal government.
Christians angry over seizure of bibles
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| CFM was disillusioned over the repeated confiscation of the bibles by the authorities. |
KOTA KINABALU: A Christian group is fed up and angry over the alleged seizure of 30,000 copies of the Malay language bibles or Alkitab in Kuching, Sarawak.
Why Stephens capitulated to ‘Malaysia’
Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad writes in his just-released memoir, “A Doctor in the House”, that Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew wanted to be prime minister of Malaysia. Mahathir may have been speaking the truth for a change although he’s not quite right, considering his ethnic Indian origins, for implying that Lee was wrong to harbour such ambitions.
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