Full Coverage: East Asia

26.07.2005 August 6 and 9, 2005 mark the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Tens of thousands of people at four U.S. nuclear weapons sites will call for an end to the development and production of nuclear bombs. Find out how you can join them.

26.07.2005 Greenpeace has launched a global movement - Wings of Peace - to commemorate the nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sixty years ago that caused the deaths of more than 300,000 people. Now nuclear weapons have increased manifold and at last count there were at least 30,000.

26.07.2005 Working abroad in a very different culture can help expand one's awareness of the default contexts behind everyday practices, including education, that are often taken for granted.

21.07.2005 Chinese government is implementing its e-government service program, ranging from hardware and e-government training facililities to call centre services.

21.07.2005 US plans to broaden India's access to nuclear technology, announced this week during an enthusiastic visit to Washington by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, have their roots in designs from the earliest days of the Bush administration to build India's stature as a counterbalance to a rising and problematic China.

18.07.2005 Chinese researchers say they have invented a cheap and eco-friendly way to keep city-dwellers warm in winter and cool in summer — using untreated sewage.

08.07.2005 Manchester United football club has pledged to aid UNICEF’s work with China to combat the trafficking of women and children.

07.07.2005 As much as one-fifth of Japanese business has adopted open source operating system, according to a report by the Japanese Government.