29 March 2011
Paying for reconstruction in the aftermath of the tsunami has been a major point of discussion in Japan. Next up for consideration? Taxes. Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has been dancing around the question of whether Japan would go ahead with a planned tax cut for businesses. The country had been in talks to reduce [...]
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26 January 2010
On January 12, a massive earthquake struck Haiti. The earthquake measured 7.0 on the Richter Scale. Devastating aftershocks followed. The confirmed death toll is 150,000 people and the Red Cross estimates that nearly 3 million people will be affected by the disaster. By comparison, Hurricane Katrina, considered to be the largest natural disaster in the [...]
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