Full Coverage: East Asia

25.11.2005 Heavily polluted river water has reached the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. The Songhua River is contaminated with the carcinogenic chemical benzene following an explosion at a petrochemical plant on 13 November.

21.11.2005 A case study on working conditions in the factories of the Nokia Mobile Phones and its suppliers concludes that Nokia and its suppliers and subcontractors do not fully comply with either Nokia's Code of Conduct or Chinese legislation, neither ILO conventions. The position of contract labour is especially weak.

17.11.2005 Public TV and radio have existed for years in Mongolia, but new changes are bringing hope that national broadcasting could become truly public service media for the first time; good news for Mongolia's dispersed population, though concerns remain about how to finance and manage the service.

15.11.2005 The Chinese government knows that it is losing the battle to control the accessing and sharing of information it would prefer to restrict.

11.11.2005 The Fisheries Agency of Japan continues to exploit a loophole in decades-old whaling bans to hunt endangered humpback and fin whales, says Greenpeace. You can become a cyberactivist and help stop whaling now.

10.11.2005 China and North Korea are failing to protect North Korean women trafficked to China, according to a new report that says the women are detained, repatriated and used as forced labour.

09.11.2005 Human rights protesters marked Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to Britain yesterday.
*Amnesty: Economic progress must not blind UK to human rights failings
*Join peaceful protest in London today

01.11.2005 Gearing up to host the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing gets an unwelcome accolade: the pollution capital of the world.