15860 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 https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1848069/coronavirus-quarantine-will-ripple-through-global-manufacturingAs the spread of the new coronavirus in China causes more factory shutdowns, the effect on global industrial supply chains could linger for years. China now makes up more than twice the share of global merchandise exports it did in 2003, when the SARS virus hit. Guangdong province alone exported more in 2018 than China did as a whole 17 years ago.Sat, 01 Feb 2020 01:12:00 +0100BangkokPost-66aeb872e2e5865303dbaf6e8efe6dcb20200201011200http://www.earthtimes.org/energy/call-research-nuclear-disasters/1863/Twelve months on from the Fukushima power plant disaster , little is known about what happens to nuclear fuels during extreme conditions, an American scientist claims. Rodney Ewing, from the University of Michigan and two other nuclear waste experts say a prolonged programme of national research is....Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:28:00 +0100earthtimes-d4ffdc1c703a574d95dd74d3d0bd453e20200201002800http://www.earthtimes.org/scitech/ants-predict-earthquakes/2319/; Credit: © Shutterstock. When California and Japan, Indonesia, Italy and Greece next suffer the worst of earthquakes, there is help already available, apart from the early warning seismology that tsunami warning centres (TWCs) provide. German research with HR cameras has begun to check these....Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:28:00 +0100earthtimes-1c510eccff7bbf9cd4aa0f0f5cc5420d20200131192800http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-02/01/c_138746414.htmTOKYO, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on Saturday struck Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at 2:07 a.m. local time, with its epicenter at a latitude of 36.0 degrees north and a longitude of 140.1 degrees east, and at a depth of 70 km.Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:25:00 +0100xinhuanet_en-61e572acea87abfafbd40f425755e42420200131192500