Japan’s ’slave labour’ interns die after 16 hour days
Jul 7, 2010 Asia, Japan, Japan: In English
The Japanese government has been accused of running slave labour working conditions after 27 foreign interns died in one year following months of working more than 16 hours a day. The majority of the victims were in their 20s or 30s and were among an estimated 200,000 trainees from developing co...Tags: Developing Countries, Dozens, Human Rights Organisations, Interns, Japan, Japanese Government, Lawyers, Overtime, Running, Slave Labour, Telegraph, Trainees, Working Conditions
Man arrested for damaging church property with extinguisher
Jul 4, 2010 Asia, Japan, Japan: In English
Osaka police arrested a 29-year-old unemployed man suspected of damaging Christian church properties dozens of times by throwing fire extinguishers or stones at doors, windows and entrances. Yasumasa Ikeda was held on charges of property destruction for breaking a door of a church in Osaka city o...Tags: Condominium, Doors Windows, Dozens, Fire Extinguishers, Osaka City, Prayers, Property Destruction
Sumo: Japan TV may pull sumo over gambling scandal
Jul 3, 2010 Asia, Japan, Japan: In English
Japan's public broadcasting network may drop an upcoming sumo tournament from its schedules because of viewer anger over a widespread gambling scandal involving wrestlers and coaches, a spokesman for the network said Friday. The move by NHK, which has aired the six annual tournaments for decades,...Tags: Anger, Baseball Games, Decades, Dozens, Gambling, Gangsters, Japan Tv, Middlemen, National Sport, Nhk, Public Broadcasting Network, Scandal, Scandals, Spokesman, Sumo Tournament, Wrestlers
Birds mysteriously drunk
Jun 4, 2010 Europe, Russia, Russia: In English
Dozens of birds in Australia are being struck down by a mystery illness which causes them to behave as if they're drunk, Australian television reported.Tags: Australian Television, Birds Australia, Dozens, Drunk, Mystery Illness
Dozens of Latvian municipalities did not observe austerity measures in 2009
Despite the ongoing austerity measures and related restrictions, several local governments in Latvia continued to pay bonuses and make other unjustified payments in 2009, according to the Finance Ministry's report to Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (New Era).Tags: Austerity Measures, Dozens, Finance Ministry, Latvia, Local Governments, Municipalities, New Era, Prime Minister
911 tape reveals priest’s brief try to get help before stabbing
Nov 5, 2009 North America, USA
A priest who died in his New Jersey rectory from dozens of stab wounds was recorded briefly on a call for help moments before his death, according to a 911 recording.Tags: 911, Dozens, Rectory, Stab Wounds
Samoa tsunami death toll rises to 99
Sep 30, 2009 Europe, Russia, Russia: In English, World
The death toll from a tsunami that hit the remote Pacific islands of American and Western Samoa on Wednesday has risen to at least 99, with dozens of people missing, Taiwan News reported.Tags: American Samoa, Dozens, Pacific Islands, Taiwan News, Tsunami, Tsunami Death Toll, Western Samoa
Hundreds feared dead after Pacific tsunami
Sep 30, 2009 Asia, Japan, Japan: In English
A massive earthquake triggered a tsunami that has devastated Samoa and American Samoa killing dozens and perhaps hundreds. The earthquake, which the Japanese Meteorological Agency measured as a magnitude 8.3, struck at 6:48 local time at a reported depth of 32 kilometres and a distance of 190 kil...Tags: Aikawa, American Samoa, Dozens, Japan, Japanese Meteorological Agency, Kilometres, Largest Tsunami, Local Time, Magnitude, Massive Earthquake, Pacific Tsunami, Samoan Islands, Sea Level, Tsunami
Tsunamis hit Samoas
Sep 30, 2009 Europe, Russia, Russia: In English
A powerful Pacific Ocean earthquake spawned towering tsunami waves that swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday, flattening villages, killing at least 39 people and leaving dozens of workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities. Cars and people were swept out to s...Tags: American Samoa, Cars, Dozens, Early Tuesday, Earthquake, National Park Service, Pacific Ocean, Survivors, Tsunami, Tsunami Waves, Tsunamis
Dozens die in Afghan bus bomb
Sep 30, 2009 Europe, Russia, Russia: In English
A roadside bomb killed 30 people in southern Afghanistan in an attack that showed the rapidly worsening toll from bombs scattered across the country's highways by insurgents.Tags: Afghan, Afghanistan Attack, Bombs, Dozens, Highways, Insurgents, People, Roadside Bomb, Southern Afghanistan
