America, China, and Tibet
The German chancellor has decided to boycott the Beijing Olympics in protest of China's treatment of Tibet. The French president is considering the same. President Bush plans to attend the opening...
View ArticleAid for Burma
The country's secretive ruling generals have given a UN aid plane permission to land, while neighboring India and Thailand have also sent aid flights. And a Chinese plane carrying 60 tons of aid has...
View ArticleChina's death toll rises
In Mianzhu, not far from the center of the quake officials believe over 18,000 people are buried in one city.Rescue efforts are being stalled by rain throughout the region, which is expected for the...
View ArticleChinese government's response to earthquake
Nearly 15,000 people have died and 25,000 are still trapped in the earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province on Monday, official media say."The World's" Mary Kay Magistad reports that the Chinese...
View ArticleChina urbanization in Shenzhen
This year, the world hit a major landmark: most of the population is now living in cities. Nowhere is that trend more dramatic than in China. Just a quarter century ago, 4 out of 5 Chinese were...
View ArticleBomb hunters in Laos
During the nine years of the Vietnam War the US dropped more cluster bombs on neighbouring Laos than it did world wide during the whole of World War Two. It is estimated that the bombing in Laos...
View ArticleChina responds to human rights criticism
The Olympics are set to begin in Bejing in ten days -- at last, China will have its moment in the sun. But the skies over the games are cloudy -- China's image has been taking a beating: corruption,...
View ArticleTerrorist attack in China raise Olympic concerns
The attack happened on the far side of China, in Xinjiang region, near the Afghan-Pakistan border, and as far as Beijing as you can get, but Chinese authorities think it could be timed to the games....
View ArticleNorth Korea halts nuke disabling
There's been a lot of back and forth between North Korea and the United States over North Korea's nuclear program. Charges and counter-charges, denials and distrust have flown from Washington to...
View ArticleDeforestation in Indonesia
The rich forests of Indonesia have helped fuel the island nation's fantastic economic growth. The tropical woods were turned into pulp for paper and hardwood furniture - finding ready markets around...
View ArticleState of emergency in Bangkok
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej declared a state of emergency late yesterday. That move follows months of anti-government protest that hit a new peak last week -- that was when a protest group stormed...
View ArticleChina -- the financial crisis and human rights
China is preparing to host a summit for leaders of over 40 Asian and European nations to discuss the financial crisis. But the start of the summit was overshadowed today by the European Parliament's...
View ArticleDalai Lama gathers Tibetan exiles for summit
Tibetan exiles have gathered in Dharamsala, India, the current home of the Dalai Lama, to try to decide how to proceed in its struggle against China over the status of Tibet. For the past six years the...
View ArticleChinese challenge government online
The following is an excerpt; for full story, listen to audio.The Chinese have taken to the Internet in a big way -- nearly 300 million people are now online in China. But Chinese leaders aren't...
View ArticleChina's stimulus package
President Obama says the nation’s economy is at a perilous moment, and he urged swift and decisive action on the $800 billion-dollar stimulus plan that’s winding its way through Congress:"This recovery...
View ArticleKhmer Rouge leaders on trial
In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge turned much of Cambodia into killing fields. Now, 30 years later, an internationally backed tribunal is about to put five officials of Pol Pot’s regime on trial. The first...
View ArticleChina looks to invest in Africa
The global economic slowdown is hammering Japan. It’s also hit China, but it has not put a damper on China’s efforts to expand its investment in Africa. President Hu Jintao of China wraps up a...
View ArticleIndonesian Journeys: Jakarta
The following is not a full transcript; for full story, listen to audio.In just over ten years, Indonesia has transformed from a centralised authoritarian regime under Suharto to a decentralised...
View ArticleSkin whitening big business in Asia
Barack Obama's inauguration as the nation's first African-American president got a lot in this country thinking and talking about race. Obama's triumph proved that any child can dream of becoming...
View ArticleJapanese salarymen on the farm
The economic downturn is prompting some Japanese professionals to take a look at another field -- farming. They've been taking a crash course run by some farmers hoping to bring new blood to Japan's...
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