Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific

31.10.2009 A useful overview of how Bangladesh has developed its reputation as world leader on adaptation to climate change. Himal South Asian

28.10.2009 Primark opens its new London store next month amid claims that Britain's leading cheap fashion retailer is expanding by exploiting overseas garment workers.

28.10.2009 Iceland is the best place for women when it comes to gender equality, a position it claimed from Norway, which now finds itself on the third place.

27.10.2009 The world's biggest mining company, Billiton, is accused of human rights abuses and environmental destruction in a report launched today.
+ Where is the Church of England’s heart invested?

22.10.2009 Iraq remains the top country of origin of asylum applicants (13,200 claims) in industrialised countries for the fourth consecutive year, according to the UN refugee agency. Afghans (12,000) and Somalis (11,000) are the next largest groups as security conditions continue to deteriorate in large parts of their home countries.

21.10.2009 The illegal cross-border timber trade between Burma and China continues to be widespread and the authorities in China should do more to clamp down, according to a new review.

18.10.2009 Yoav Shamir was called an anti-Semite for one his films, which, as a Jew and an Israeli, he found odd.

15.10.2009 Is it ok to make a feature film about a true story? This often-replayed controversy is reopened by Balibo, a dramatic telling of the murder of six Australian journalists by Indonesian forces when they invaded East Timor in 1975.

15.10.2009 Afghanistan’s next government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalising the police, say aid agencies.

15.10.2009 Withdrawal of Bangladesh army troops has begun in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. There is tension as the hill people also demand the removal of Bengalis from the region. Retired Brigadier General Hannan Shah discusses the situation.

12.10.2009 The UK government today blasted Vedanta Resources over its treatment of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Orissa, India.

11.10.2009 Nepal has re-launched the discharge and rehabilitation process of over 4,000 former Maoist fighters, including child soldiers.

10.10.2009 There will be a celebration at 5.30pm at Grosvenor Square, opposite the US Embassy, to celebrate the Iraqi government's the release of 36 people seized from a camp for Iranian dissidents in Iraq. In London, hunger-strikers ended their 72-day sympathy fast to mark the group's return to Camp Ashraf.

05.10.2009 A documentary about “the only top official in the UN known by his first name” sounds dull. But don’t be put off - Sergio is engrossing.

05.10.2009 Despite changes in rhetoric, IMF policy advice and conditions are still hitting social protection, decent work and poverty in countries forced to take out loans due to the financial crisis, according to a new report.
+ IMF 'risks presiding over new debt crisis'

03.10.2009 The execution in Iran on Monday of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini for a murder he is accused of committing when he was only 17 must be stopped, says Amnesty International.

02.10.2009 Four actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated - Afghanistan, Bosnia, Guinea and Uganda - in September and none improved, according to the International Crisis Group.

01.10.2009 Government security paranoia in the run-up to the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China today has led to a reinforcement of online censorship and abusive behaviour towards foreign journalists, says an international media monitoring group.