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Indonesia`s tourist promotion to Japan in the post-earthquake and tsunami period has been halted indefinitely, Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik said.Speaking to the press after inaugurating Dafam Hotel in Semarang Friday night, he said that while the number of Japanese tourists originally expected to come to Indonesia this...

An unexpected spike in pressure inside a troubled reactor set back efforts to bring Japan's overheating, leaking nuclear complex under control Sunday as concerns grew that so far minor contamination of food and water is spreading.The pressure increase raised the possibility that plant operators may need to deliberately release radioactive...

In the first sign that contamination from Japan's stricken nuclear complex had seeped into the food chain, officials said Saturday that radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near the tsunami-crippled facility exceeded government safety limits.Minuscule amounts of radioactive iodine also were found in tap water Friday in Tokyo...