CNN-IBN New Delhi: It’s only April, and the summers have just set in but heat is already burning down in North India. And the temperature is expected to rise further in the next few days. The Northern India is reeling under intense heat and the temperatures continue to soar. But Ahmedabad, Patna, Bhopal and Chandigarh [...]
NEW CHINA TIMES Japanese lawmakers called on the government Tuesday to provide compensation to thousands of unrecognized victims of Minamata disease, a debilitating disorder caused by eating fish tainted with mercury, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the official diagnosis of the illness. After victims endured decades of social stigmatization, corporate bullying and legal battles, [...]
Thousands of Minamata disease victims will be commemorated at a newly installed memorial in a bayside park in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Sunday on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the official recognition of the disease. Some 300 participants, including children, will pay their respect through traditional dancing and drumming in front [...]
PHOTO: RICKY DÁVILA United Nations, April 28 2006 More than 18,000 children, victims of the disaster at Chernobyl´s nuclear station 20 years ago, have received assistance in Cuba, Cuban Ambassador to the UN Rodrigo Malmierca reported on Friday. The Cuban permanent representative to the United Nations told a special session on the anniversary of the [...]
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN April 28th 2006 It is a truism that memories fade with time. To young people, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986, is about to become a topic of history learned in schools. They are to be taught about an event that occurred 20 years ago, but not in the context [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — A “positive void coefficient” was the tidy phrase they used to describe the unspeakable nuclear conflagration that erupted out of the No. 4 reactor at Chernobyl 20 years ago. On this date back then, thousands of tons of airborne strontium-90 and other radioactive isotope particulates were drifting lazily across the then-Soviet Union and [...]
Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, May 2, 2006 YEREVAN, Armenia — Sennik Alexanian’s skin has a strange yellow hue; his bones stick out and his eyes bulge. At 49, his immune system has collapsed. Like thousands of others, he divides his life into two periods — before and after Chernobyl. Alexanian was one of the [...]
Apr 28 2006 – George Tattum, Mold Chronicle Children releasing balloons for Chernobyl A CHARITY which provides holidays for young victims of the Chernobyl disaster has enlisted Deeside children to take part in its latest fund-raising campaign. Pupils from Golftyn Primary School, Connah’s Quay, joined local Chernobyl Children’s Life Line organisers to sell balloons to [...]
Congratulations continue to pour in from around the globe. One of our favorites: WOWOWOWOWO! Fanbloodytastic!!!! Tina *** Dear Mr Ryan Bodany and Students for Bhopal, Congratulations for this great victory! The Bhopal People deserves a better life quality after so many desperate years. I hope this incredible campaign work will bring a new perspective for [...]
(UPI Top Stories Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized in a statement Friday for the government’s failure to prevent the spread of environmental pollution. Koizumi’s remarks were made Monday before the 50th anniversary of the recognition of what is known as Minamata disease. It’s named after the area in Kumamoto Prefecture in [...]
