Sebarang bentuk "gula-gula" pilihanraya negeri Sarawak yang telah dan akan dijanjikan sebelum pembuangan undi 16 April, jika tidak dimasukkan ke dalam baget tak mungkin dapat dikotakan. Ekonomi kita sedikit sebanyak bergantung kepada Jepun, contohnya Syarikat Perodua, Proton, Canon, Matshushita dan PJVM mendapat barang mentah serta alat ganti dari Jepun dan kemudian di eksport semula.
Akibat tiga malapetaka iaitu gempa bumi yang diikuti dengan tsunami serta kerosakan loji nuklear, negara Jepun berada di ambang kegawatan ekonomi. Kerugian dianggarkan USD300 billion dan menjadikan angka ini sebagai rekod untuk kerugian paling tinggi dalam sejarah bencana alam.
Japan's nuclear crisis continues to hit economy
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's nuclear crisis sent corporate confidence plunging to a record low in April and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned the risk to the world's third largest economy is firmly on the downside, with no end in sight to its nuclear disaster.
The IMF cut Japan's economic growth forecast to 1.4 percent this year from 1.6 percent, projected three months ago, and the Bank of Japan is expected to cut its January growth forecast of 1.6 percent when it issues its twice-yearly outlook on April 28.
The Japanese government has already cut its outlook for the economy, in deflation for almost 15 years.
Japan is struggling to cope with its worst crisis since World War Two, after the earthquake and 15-meter tsunami hit on March 11, leaving 28,000 people dead or missing, its northeast coast a splintered wreck and a nuclear plant with six reactors damaged.
The total cost of the triple disaster has been estimated at $300 billion, making it the world's most costly natural disaster.
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JAPAN QUAKE MOVES IT CLOSER TO USA AND SHIFTS EARTH AXIS
Tokyo: Scientists from the United States Geological Service made a startling revelation that the powerful Japan quake seems to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 ft or 2.4 meters and shifted the earth on it's axis.
USGS scientists say that earth's axis has reportedly shifted ten inches as a result of the quake, and Japan's coast is said to have permanently shifted 2.4 metres. They added that over 100 aftershocks rated 5.0 magnitude or more have hit Japan since the initial shake.
The scientists from the USGS were answering public's questions on the quake and the resulting tsunami online. Dr. Dave Applegate from USGS said that the Japan earthquake ruptured a 180 mile long by 50 mile wide section of the earth's crust.
Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology's finding colloborated the claim that the Japan quake had shifted the country's coastline and the earth's rotation axis. INGV, which is Europe's largest research institute to monitor geophysics, said the impact of Japan's earthquake was "much greater" than 2004's Sumatra earthquake.
The change in earth's rotational axis is likely to change the day night pattern in places. However, scientists say it is not likely to change your sleep patterns or birthday, but they do accumulate over time. And, as such, the change will be permanent, over the decades and eons, it will eventually amount to a trickle of "lost" time
The researchers said that while the minuscule change may be completely undetectable, it still illustrates the punch behind the Japan's massive earthquake.
Last year, NASA reported that a 8.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Chile shortened the day by 1.26 millionths of a second, according to computer-model calculations.
According to the National Geographic, NASA had estimated that the Chilean earthquake shifted the globe's axis by about 10 centimetres.
Meanwhile, at least 14 aftershocks, with magnitudes ranging from 5 - 6.8, rocked Japan's eastcoast on Saturday.
Monster quake moves Japan closer to US, speeds up Earth's rotation
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