1026150 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/east-asia/story/shanmugam-japan-disaster-management-forum-20150313Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam is visiting Japan from March 13 to March 17, where he will be attending a United Nations conference on disaster risk reduction. Mr Shanmugam will deliver a statement at the non-regular forum between government representatives and experts to discuss....Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:49:00 +0100straitstimesSG-3daa85e81b98d74251bf18d0d79d6f9720150312184900http://www.jornadanet.com/n.php?a=114311-1A lo largo de todo el país se celebraron emotivos actos en recuerdo a las más de 18.000 víctimas que causó la tragedia, la más grave que ha azotado a Japón desde la II Guerra Mundial. El más importante de estos homenajes tuvo lugar en el Teatro Nacional de Tokio, y contó con la participación del....Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:47:00 +0100jornadanet-aa675c4063e99088566ff46d4d08d06220150312174700http://www.dw.de/nuclear-refugees/av-18309870Nuclear Nuclear refugees. This week Japan marked four years since a tsunami caused a nuclear disaster at Fukushima. The magnitude 9 earthquake which struck northeast Japan in March 2011 caused a humanitarian crisis and left thousands dead. But four years on, "nuclear refugees" from the surrounding....Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:42:00 +0100deutschewelle-en-c1f7ff580a02cf9c3bd6daaaf03f9c2120150312174200http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/world/asia/hong-kong-finds-radioactive-contamination-in-sample-of-japanese-tea.html?partner=rss&emc=rssHONG KONG — A sample of powdered tea imported from the Japanese prefecture of Chiba, just southeast of Tokyo, had 9.3 times the legal maximum level of radioactive cesium 137 allowed in food, the Hong Kong government announced late Thursday evening. Hong Kong’s legal limits for radioactive material in food are low and stringent.Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:20:00 +0100nytimes-47897d1507f269e6f5e3ada038f479cf20150312172000