Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific
July 2008
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31.07.2008
A change in the law is needed in the wake of the House of Lords ruling in favour of the Serious Fraud Office's termination of a corruption investigation into BAE arms deals with Saudi Arabia, say campaigners.
more...From: The Corner House Related topics/regions: [Saudi Arabia] [United Kingdom] |
30.07.2008
The Chinese authorities have confirmed that the 20,000 foreign journalists covering the Olympic Games will not have unrestricted access to the Internet during their stay.
more...From: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related topics/regions: [China] Image: Olympicswatch
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29.07.2008
The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country’s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, according to an international rights group.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [China] Image: olimpiadi in Cina - da Olympicswatch.org
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29.07.2008
The House of Lords will give its verdict on Wednesday on the Serious Fraud Office's appeal against a ruling that its director acted unlawfully when he stopped a corruption investigation into a huge BAE-Saudi arms deal.
more...From: The Corner House Related topics/regions: [Saudi Arabia] [United Kingdom] Image: I Tornado GR4 Saudi Arabia Airforce ©BAE
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25.07.2008
Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.
more...Related topics/regions: [Timor-Leste] [Saudi Arabia] [Norway] [Nigeria] [Malaysia] [Kuwait] [Kazakhstan] [Iran] [Indonesia] [Azerbaijan] [Angola] [Algeria] Image: A crude awakening © Global Witness
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24.07.2008
Computer billionaire Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have linked up in a $500 million campaign to cut cigarette sales in developing countries.
more...Related topics/regions: [Latin America & Caribbean] [Africa] |
23.07.2008
South Asian leaders' failures to control rising food prices, protect small farmers, ensure women's land rights, resist genetically modified organisms GMOs and stop biofuels will increase the number of hungry people in the region to over 588 million by 2009, claims a new report.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] Image: Rice: more hunger ahead?
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22.07.2008
South Asian leaders have been asked by civil society groups to strengthen human rights through new institutions such as a regional parliament, education fund, climate change body and a South Asian human rights charter and a mechanism to increase people-to-people contacts.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] |
22.07.2008
The first full report on the needs of Burmese affected by cyclone Nargis says that over half the families contacted on the day of the survey reported that they had enough food to last only for one day and had no stocks to fall back on.
more...+ 'Time for donors to give more to Burma' Related topics/regions: [Myanmar] Image: Burma cyclone
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19.07.2008
South Asian civil society groups have urged leaders preparing for a regional summit to "imagine a New South Asia" free from hunger, poverty, disasters, bad governance, authoritarian rules and lack of control over their resources.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Asia] Image: SAARC
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17.07.2008
A secret document accidentally posted on the Internet reveals plans to build a series of massive hydroelectric dams in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, submerging the homes of at least 1,000 Penan, Kelabit and Kenyah tribal people.
more...From: Survival International Italia Related topics/regions: [Malaysia] Image: Penan, Sarawak, Malaysia (©Robin Hanbury-Tenison/Survival)
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15.07.2008
The British government must fulfil its responsibilities to the people of East Timor, following a quarter-century of violence during which the UK supplied arms to Indonesian forces that illegally occupied East Timor until 1999, a Catholic development group said today.
more...From: Progressio Related topics/regions: [Timor-Leste] [United Kingdom] Image: Free East Timor poster © Patrick Carkin/Proactivist.com
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15.07.2008
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris says that although the Abu Ghraib prison photographs were “the most widely seen photographs in history”, no-one had really talked to those responsible for the abuses captured on camera. His film Standard Operating Procedure puts that right.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [United States] [Arms & military] [Justice and crime] Image: Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure
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15.07.2008
Indian central and state governments should hold accountable security forces and state-backed vigilantes responsible for killing and forcibly displacing tens of thousands of people in armed operations against Maoist rebels, an international rights group said today.
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14.07.2008
South Africa’s Housing Minister Dr Lindiwe Sisulu and Jockin Arputham, founder of India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation, call on aid agencies and development banks to support an innovative way of tackling problems in the world's slums and squatter settlements, which a billion people call home.
more...From: International Institute for Environment and Development Related topics/regions: [South Africa] [India] Image: Tarsheet shelters in a state of disrepair © Shivani Chaudhry
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11.07.2008
Nervous about letting the kids go on a school trip? Forget it – and forget health and safety. Put your worries in perspective by watching six blind Tibetan children trying to climb the 23,000-ft Lhakpa Ri on north side of Mt Everest.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Tibet] [Disability] Image: Sonam Bhumtso, 15 years old — after joining Braille Without Borders’ school in 2000 she became one of the first blind students to be integrated into a sighted elementary school. She recently graduated first in her class from her sighted middle school. She speaks English, Chinese and Tibetan.
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10.07.2008
All the boys in the band want is to play. Unfortunately, they are Iraqis, so it has proved impossible.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Iraq] Image: Heavy Metal in Baghdad
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08.07.2008
Barclays Bank has sold its shares in Global Coal Management – a British company building a controversial mine in Bangladesh – and should now remove all financial involvement in the project, says a leading UK development lobby group.
more...From: World Development Movement Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Bangladesh] |
02.07.2008
Controls have been increased at Tokyo's main airport in an attempt to keep "trouble-makers" away from the forthcoming G8 Summit of industrialised countries, says a press service for the "independent radical left movement" that opposes the G8 countries.
more...Related topics/regions: [Japan] Image: Marching to the G8 meeting at Gleneagles, July 2005 © Peter Armstrong
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