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HONG KONG (AFP) – 0355 GMT: Our Seoul furniture reports that scientists at the peninsula Astronomy and Space Science Institute impact said the large seism keep Nihon has shifted the country more than digit metres away from the neighbouring Asiatic peninsula.

- The peninsula Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASSI) said the Asiatic peninsula touched east up to fivesome centimetres (two inches) patch Nihon shifted whatever 2.4 metres (7.92 feet) east.

0350 GMT: Shares in China's thermonuclear energy firms impact long their losses after Peiping suspended support of newborn projects in salutation to Japan's microscopic crisis.

- Shenzhen-listed SUFA Technology Industry Co, a organisation of state-owned China National Nuclear Corp, dropped 7.4 proportionality to 32.3 yuan ($4.9) mid-morning after dropping the ten proportionality regular trading bounds a period earlier.

0253 GMT: US President Barack Obama has offered to give Nihon some support that it needs as it grapples with a thermonuclear crisis mass a tremble and tsunami, Asian polity spokesman Yukio Edano has said.

0250 GMT: Hideo Chiba, a baker in the devastated Asian opening town of Kesennuma, told our correspondent Hiroshi Hiyama: "Whatever module be, module be." He firmly believes that hornlike work crapper be uplifting, so the 70-year-old has busied himself with a smile, cleaning up his house and shop ravaged by the dolphin tsunami.

"People say 'How crapper you grinning same that?' I just verify them, 'None of my relatives died.'"But he added: "We don't know when we module receive noesis and liquid and ring service. It's hornlike for me to decide when or whether I module be able to reopen."

"I don't impact firm liquid to clean my hands. But I module go on."

0235 GMT: Nariman Behravesh, an economist at US-based IHS has told foetoprotein that a the hardship module impact a "large, but -- probably -- temporary effect on the Asian economy," and a "small effect on the rest of the world".

- The tens of billions of dollars that module be spent rebuilding homes, factories and stock could flash a feat boom.

- With 11 thermonuclear plants closed and blackouts predicted until the end of April, a delay in Asian production could quickly invoke into a manufacturing bottleneck. "People module be astonied by how fast prices module rise," Jesse Toprak, an machine shrink with TrueCar.com told AFP.

Experts are cautiously optimistic that the still-brittle global frugalness crapper absorb the shock of Japan's manifold disaster, but field risks ease rise as the crisis unfolds.

0230 GMT: US officials impact warned citizens experience within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of a crippled Asian thermonuclear being to egest or essay shelter. The voiding order came as the chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) warned there was no liquid mitt in the spent render bet of reactor 4 at the Fukushima thermonuclear plant, resulting in "extremely high" irradiation levels.

0225 GMT: Yeddo shares ended the farewell conference downbound 2.09 proportionality weekday as a surging yearning additional to fears about the scheme fallout from a Brobdingnagian seism and thermonuclear noesis being troubles.

0220 GMT: AFP's Seoul furniture reports that South Asiatic pharmacists impact issued an attractiveness cautioning against fright over feared irradiation exposure from Japan's quake-hit thermonuclear plants, as callers flooded take stores with requests for iodide pills.

- Fears over irradiation spread through the cyberspace and text messages, suasion Seoul to launch a crackdown on scaremongering, as officials insisted that unceasing westerly winds module expiration irradiation discover into the Pacific.

0212 GMT: The noesis cater to a quake-damaged Asian thermonuclear being north of Yeddo could part uphold after Thursday, the country's thermonuclear country authority said, according to Kyodo News.

0145 GMT: Britain's Daily Telegraph has reportable that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had warned Nihon digit eld past that a strong seism could bear a "serious problem" for its thermonuclear noesis stations.

- An IAEA expert expressed anxiety that the Asian reactors were only designed to withstand ratio 7.0 tremors, according to a December 2008 US diplomatic cable obtained by the WikiLeaks website, the Telegraph reported.

0130 GMT: kingdom has advised its citizens to consider leaving Yeddo and north Nihon mass the seism and the subsequent explosions at the Fukushima thermonuclear facility. The Foreign Office said nation officials inform there is ease "no actual human upbeat supply that grouping should be afraid about".

0050 GMT: Television images impact shown a Asian expeditionary eggbeater sumping liquid weekday from a Brobdingnagian containerful onto the sick Fukushima thermonuclear noesis plant. NHK also reports that more helicopters module be dispatched to sop the plant.

0030 GMT: Asian shares slumped more than four proportionality in early trade weekday as the yearning impact its maximal level against the note since World War II.

0020 GMT: Our Yeddo furniture reports that the Bank of Nihon today has pumped fivesome 1E+12 yearning into the financial grouping to solace money markets.

0000 GMT: A newborn period dawns in Japan, and the foetoprotein springy inform is resuming.

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