Full Coverage: East Asia

31.05.2005 On top of the 2,000-plus whales that will be hunted around the world in 2005, the South Korean government is trying to reopen commercial whaling. The International Whaling Commission meets June 19 in South Korea to decide their fate. Greenpeace is asking you to take four easy steps to join in the march to save the whales.

31.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31 (OneWorld) - Month-long U.N. talks on halting the spread of nuclear weapons have ended with no agreement on how to update and strengthen the 35-year-old Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

26.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26 (OneWorld) - Activists are seeking to use a European breakthrough this week to turn up the heat on some of the world's richest countries to come up with money they promised decades ago in the global fight against poverty.

25.05.2005 Insatiable demand for energy combined with little opportunity for public debate leads to a predictable result - exponential increase in construction of nuclear power stations. It's full steam ahead in China.

17.05.2005 The Ministers responsible for ICTs from the ASEAN countries and China have adopted the Beijing Declaration on ASEAN-China ICT Cooperative Partnership for Common Development at the ASEAN-China ICT Ministerial Forum on 12 May 2005 in Beijing.

17.05.2005 Post and Telecommunications Minister Barrister Mohammad Aminul Haque on Monday said the ministry has undertaken a project to install 900,000 new land phones in Dhaka, district headquarters and upazila sadars with the financial help of the Chinese Government, reports BSS.

16.05.2005 Behind the headlines about China's economic boom is the story of entire regions that live in desperate poverty. Ranking behind Algeria, Botswana, and Turkmenistan in wealth per person, more than 100 million Chinese live on less than a dollar a day. Mercy Corps Communications Director Jeremy Barnicle traveled to rural China and brings us reports from the field.

13.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13 (OneWorld) - The United States should press China to help solve one of the world's worst humanitarian crises by ending its policy of repatriating North Koreans, according to a new report from a leading refugee advocacy group.

13.05.2005 Japan provided 134.5 billion yen ( approximately 5,600 crore)
Yen Loan to India in 2004.

13.05.2005 Citizens have shown themselves to be far ahead of the world's governments on matters of global aid and social justice. A new global campaign--whose symbol is the unmistakable white band worn anywhere on the body--has been launched to coincide with this summer's G8 summit of rich countries, demanding trade justice, debt cancellation, and more and better quality aid for the world's poorest countries.

12.05.2005 North Korea's food shortages that led to famine during the 1990s persist today, with over six million still facing hunger. A new report examines how North Korea's pursuit for economic and agricultural self-sufficiency--rooted in the country's history of occupation and isolation--is shortsighted, calling on the international community to avoid worsening the situation by isolating, vilifying, or exploiting the country.

06.05.2005 Inter Press Service (IPS) Asia Pacific and ActionAid have collaborated to set up a website - Asia Media Forum - formed by a group of journalists from nine Asian countries. The website was launched on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day – May 3 and will allow journalists to share views on the media as well as opinions on democracy, development and human rights in Asia.

06.05.2005 Inter Press Service (IPS) Asia Pacific and ActionAid have collaborated to set up a website - Asia Media Forum - formed by a group of journalists from nine Asian countries. The website was launched on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day – May 3 and will allow journalists to share views on the media as well as opinions on democracy, development and human rights in Asia.

04.05.2005 The UN has said that though political commitment to fight HIV/AIDS in India and China has increased significantly the epidemic continues to grow and is impacting poverty reduction in many countries.