A six-month old giant panda has been unveiled to her adoring public in Taiwan, as long lines of children queued up at Taipei zoo to see the cavorting cub.

A RADIATION cloud drifted from an earthquake-stricken nuclear power plant toward Tokyo yesterday sparking panic in one of the world’s biggest and most densely populated cities.

Foreigners have begun leaving Japan in large numbers, with lengthy queues forming at Tokyo's Haneda airport.

Chinese planes touched down in Taiwan today, completing the first non-stop flights between the rivals since a bloody civil war split the two sides 56 years ago.