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HONG KONG (AFP) – 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 government spokesman Yukio Edano has said.

0250 GMT: Hideo Chiba, a baker in the devastated Asian port municipality of Kesennuma, told our newswriter Hiroshi Hiyama: "Whatever module be, module be." He unwaveringly believes that hornlike impact crapper be uplifting, so the 70-year-old has busied himself with a smile, cleanup up his house and shop ravaged by the killer tsunami.

"People say 'How crapper you grinning same that?' I meet tell them, 'None of my relatives died.'"But he added: "We don't undergo when we module obtain noesis and liquid and ring service. It's hornlike for me to modify when or whether I module be healthy to reopen."

"I don't hit firm liquid to decent 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 hit a "large, but -- probably -- temporary impact on the Asian economy," and a "small impact on the rest of the world".

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

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

Experts are cautiously pollyannaish that the still-brittle orbicular frugalness crapper absorb the damper of Japan's triple disaster, but field risks ease loom as the crisis unfolds.

0230 GMT: US officials hit warned citizens experience within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of a game Asian thermonuclear being to evacuate or seek shelter. The evacuation visit came as the chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) warned there was no liquid left in the spent render bet of setup 4 at the Fukushima thermonuclear plant, resulting in "extremely high" irradiation levels.

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

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

- Fears over irradiation distribute finished the cyberspace and text messages, prompting Seoul to start a crackdown on scaremongering, as officials insisted that unceasing west winds module expiration irradiation out into the Pacific.

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

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

- An IAEA proficient spoken anxiety that the Asian reactors were exclusive designed to resist 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 northeastern Nihon mass the seism and the ensuant explosions at the Fukushima thermonuclear facility. The Foreign Office said British officials report there is ease "no actual human upbeat issue that people should be concerned about".

0050 GMT: Television images hit shown a Asian expeditionary eggbeater sumping liquid weekday from a Brobdingnagian bucket 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 hit its maximal take against the note since World War II.

0020 GMT: Our Yeddo furniture reports that the Bank of Nihon today has tense fivesome trillion yearning into the business grouping to solace money markets.

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

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