Japan's Leaked Nuclear Plant Radiation Traced In China

By ONE Liners Agency

JAPAN / CHINA NEWS - Nuclear radioactive iodine traces has been detected in Chinese Heilongilang province on Saturday, said China government agency to the state-run media.

According to the Chinese authorities, the radiation iodine level was a minuscule fraction, which is one-hundred-thousandth beyond the normal levels, and it has been emanated from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant of Japan.

The Chinese government agency has confirmed that such low level is not harmful to the public health and also said the people here do not required any extra precautions.

Earlier, such low levels radioactive iodine was also traced as far as United States and Sweden.

More to this, several nations are taking necessary steps in ensuring their citizens in Japan don't suffer due to the nuclear fall-out.

United States Embassy in Tokyo wrote on its website it would continue "to make potassium iodide tablets available to private U.S. citizens who have not been able to obtain it from their physician, employer or other sources."

Health officials said these medication can counter the radiation's harmful effects when it enters the body through contaminated water, air or other means.

Meanwhile, Japanese authorities are also distributing such pills to all close to the plant.

Bejing Livid Over Nobel Peace Prize To Liu Xiaobo

By ONE Liner Agencies

Liu Xiaobo

Chinese government loathed at the Nobel Peace Prize committee for the Nobel Peace Prize award that is awarded to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. He is believed to be involved in anti-government rebellion and political reform in the country.

The Chinese government lashed the Nobel and in an explicit way called the award “an obscenity” that goes against the aims of the award. In a statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry threatened that the award would hurt China’s relations with Norway.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu in a recent statement said in less harsh language, accusing Liu Xiaobo for violating Chinese law.

Liu was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment in December, though there were no official details given by authorities stated which laws he has violated.

The 54-year-old writer was detained two years back for the release of controversial Charter 08- a manifesto he helped organize that asks for political reform in the nation.

Patrick Poon, of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, a writers’ group that Liu has earlier lead, says Chinese government harsh step actually backfired and people will inspire to speak out openly.

"As we can also see in the situation in the past few years, there may have been more and more crackdowns, but we have not seen a decreasing number of dissidents, people expressing their views," said Poon.

The Chinese media also banned the news of Nobel Peace award and the international media broadcasting were temporarily cut. Internet users could find the news but only if they use proxies to bypass the cyber blocks the Chinese government maintains to sieve out information that seems to them sensitive or illegal.