Thai economists are warning Thailand's unemployment levels could reach 1.3 million people this year, more than double the530,000 people who lost their jobs last year when the unemployment rate stood at 1.4 percent.
VOA: standard.2009.03.09
At Fukushima Daiichi, these have been big problems because the electricity needed to keep them cool was lost, allowing radiation levels to rise, after the earthquake and tsunami.
He said the introduction of two-stage A-levels meant pupils had lost their previous freedom, in the first years after GCSEs, to think and read more widely, in the knowledge that the next exams were still some time off.