Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific

30.05.2008 Three Turkish tuna fishing vessels surrounded the Greenpeace ship "Arctic Sunrise" in the Cypriot Channel this morning, with crew from one vessel attacking the ship with lead weights.

28.05.2008 The sun set on monarchy in Nepal today as the country became the world's youngest republic after the constituent assembly approved a proposal to terminate the 239-year monarchy.
+ OneWorld Nepal Guide

28.05.2008 After nine years in prison on trumped-up drugs charges, a Pakistani newspaper editor has been freed on parole.

28.05.2008 Japan has a chance to lead the rich G8 nations this year in finally delivering real benefits to poor African countries – provided it honours its own aid and climate promises at an important Japan-African Summit in Yokohama this week, says an international development group.

27.05.2008 The Burma Campaign UK condemns world leaders for failing to speak out about the detention of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the run-up to the illegal renewal of her detention.

27.05.2008 Thousands in Myanmar still have received no aid three weeks after Cyclone Nargis, says a leading medical assistance organisation.

26.05.2008 Britain and other European governments should break from the United States over the international embargo on Gaza, according to former US president Jimmy Carter.

24.05.2008 The Burma Campaign says it is "hopeful but sceptical" following reports that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has secured agreement from Myanmar's Generals for aid workers to be allowed into the country.
+ Suu Kyi allowed to vote, ballot taken to her home

23.05.2008 As a deadly new strain of Black Stem Rust devastates wheat harvests across Africa and Arabia, and threatens the staple food supply of a billion people from Egypt to Pakistan, the areas where potentially crop and life-saving remnant wild wheat relatives grow are only minimally protected.

22.05.2008 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon finally sees first-hand the devastation left in Myanmar by Cyclone Nargis, which has killed tens of thousands of people and uprooted the lives of 2.4 million.

21.05.2008 The Aravind Eye Care System in India has won the $1 million Gates Award for Global Health for its work in preventing blindness and providing affordable, world-class eye care to the poor.

20.05.2008 This is Our Country Too is a hard-hitting investigation into Australia’s woeful treatment of its indigenous peoples, and a rare depiction of their unrelenting struggle for justice, equality and self-determination.

19.05.2008 Hollywood actor David Harewood, a star of the film Blood Diamond, is supporting CAFOD's new exhibition which reveals the truth behind the glamour of gold through images and accounts from three continents.

19.05.2008 Controversial author and journalist Naomi Klein is poised to accuse UK companies over plans to plunder Iraqi oil, on the eve of Shell’s annual meeting.
* Klein's speech will be made at the launch of the paperback edition of her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Meeting details

18.05.2008 Winter Soldier was made in 1971 as a record of testimonies by men and women who has served in the US military during the still ongoing Vietnam war. Is there any point in seeing it today? There most certainly is.

17.05.2008 The natural disaster in Burma has now become a "man-made catastrophe", British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.
+ Children may starve to death in Myanmar, aid agency warns
+ Thousands of children lost and in danger

15.05.2008 China comes under fire for continuing to obstruct moves to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.
+ Authorities restrict Cyclone Nargis news coverage
* London demos: see Events listing

15.05.2008 As mining company Vedanta announces record profits today, India's remote Dongria Kondh people are claiming the company will destroy them forever if it goes ahead with plans to mine their sacred mountain.

15.05.2008 Governments could save human lives and millions of dollars in crop and income losses for the rural poor through better consideration of the needs of wildlife, according to a new study of conflict between humans and wild elephants in Africa and Asia.

14.05.2008 One week after appeal lines opened, £6 million has been raised for the Myanmar Cyclone Appeal.