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Most of Christchurch CBD now accessible
More than 510 businesses, or 2000 people, have been granted access to buildings within the cordoned area.

Strong earthquake strikes Myanmar
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Burma has killed up to 10 people overnight.

Anxiety in Tokyo over radiation in tap water
Workers loaded trucks with boxes of bottled water to distribute across the city today after residents cleared store shelves following warnings that Tokyo's tap water had elevated radiation coming from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear complex

Huge staff cuts at Grand Chancellor, Arts Centre
Almost 100 employees at the badly quake-damaged Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch are to lose their jobs...

Water poisonous for Tokyo infants
The Tokyo Water Bureau has warned parents not let their infants drink the city's radioactive water supply, with levels two times the recommended limit for infants.

<i>Michael Dickison:</i> Nuclear fears dim Tokyo's glow but not its spirits
Herald reporter Michael Dickison, who is fluent in Japanese, reports from a remarkably changed Tokyo.

<i>Michael Dickison:</i> Evacuees taking life a day at a time
Herald reporter Michael Dickison has been travelling through the devastation on the coast of Japan. Yesterday, he visited Sendai.

Business owners rush cordon to get into buildings
About 120 Christchurch business owners stormed the inner-city cordon yesterday.

'Who is the man?' - Robyn Malcolm's mum seeks CTV hero
CTV building survivor Anne Malcolm wants a simple question answered: Who is the man helping her in this photo?

Japan disaster: Barrage of threats adds to confusion in disaster region
Herald reporter Michael Dickison grew up in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. He returned last week to report on the ravaged countryside of his other homeland

Paying for Christchurch: Uncle Bob wants you
The Japan tsunami has derailed the Government's plan to put out the begging bowl to the world to pay for the rebuilding of Christchurch.