Tsunami Rebuilding

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  Residents Clear Mud, Rubble as Rebuilding Begins after Chile Quake

  Residents began rebuilding homes and businesses in Coquimbo on Friday, two days after tsunami waves triggered by a major earthquake battered the Chilean port city's waterfront neighbourhoods.

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  Japan Prime Minister Vows New 5 Year Plan to Rebuild from 2011 Disaster

  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today vowed to draw up a new-five year plan to speed rebuilding from a massive 2011 tsunami and the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl that have left thousands still homeless.

• Construction crunch slows Japan tsunami rebuilding

  Tens of thousands of people on Japan's northeastern coast who were left homeless in the March 2011 tsunami are shivering their way through yet another winter in cramped temporary housing, with perhaps several more to go.

• Japan marks second anniversary of Fukushima disaster

  The two-year anniversary on Monday of Japan's devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe is serving to spotlight the stakes of the country's struggles to clean up radiation, rebuild lost communities and determine new energy and economic strategies.

• Japan hid dangers of nuclear disaster, finds probe

  An independent investigation has found that Japan's government withheld information about the full danger of last year's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster from its own people and from its key ally the United States. A report by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation says the decision may have put U.S.-Japan relations at risk in the first days after...

• Tsunami funds diverted to tourism projects

  The Central Government had sanctioned Rs 1441.75 crore to rebuild the coastal areas in Kerala. In October 2006, the then Revenue Minister K P Rajendran announced the scheme in the Assembly.Areas like housing, drinking water, power, social welfare, costal protection and construction of roads and bridges were included in the scheme.Though bridges and...

• Careful search for mementos slows Japan rebuilding

  Sakuji Funayama watched intently as a giant steel claw tore chunks off the remains of his two-story home, ripped open like a dollhouse by last month's tsunami and washed up onto a pile of debris. Suddenly, he spied something, waved his arms and pointed.The claw froze and a half dozen construction workers scrambled into the wreckage, emerging a few ...