Month: March 2011

The huge (magnitude 9.0) Tohoku earthquake in Japan and the resulting tsunami on 11^th March was the latest in a recent series of such ‘natural disasters’, from China (2008) and Pakistan (2008) to Indonesia (2004) and New Zealand (2011). The Japanese disaster has killed at least 10,000 people and … Read More

Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on 14^th January 2011 after mass protests and demonstrations calling for his immediate resignation and demanding freedom and jobs. In Egypt, President of thirty years Hosni Mubarak was forced from office on 11^th February after protests in Cairo and other … Read More