Full Coverage: East Asia

31.08.2005 China's plans to attract "overseas Chinese" researchers to help drive its scientific progress are being undermined by the "irresponsibility" of those being hired, a senior US-based Chinese mathematician has warned.

31.08.2005 While US and Japan are preparing to equip the WTO’s Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (Trips) Agreement with provisions to safeguard national biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge, developing countries are lagging behind in their entrepreneurship in this regard.

29.08.2005 China’s increasing interest in economic and trade integration with Latin America while worrisome to Washington, is encouraging to some Latin American leaders who perceive the U.S. as a being a condescending patron, say America’s Program analysts.

26.08.2005 The combined emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from hundreds of new coal-burning power plants could exceed current UK emissions.

24.08.2005 The world’s most populous nation now has motorists — but there’s no petrol at the pumps. Nury Vittachi, China-based journalist and author, sends the first in a new series of dispatches, exclusive to OneWorld UK.

22.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 22 (OneWorld) - The Walt Disney Co. has asked an outside auditor to investigate reports that its Chinese contractors pay workers below minimum wage, demand excessive overtime, and hide their violations from labor monitors by issuing false pay slips.

22.08.2005 Take a red flower to lay at the Japanese embassy in London to represent the blood of slaughtered dolphins.

22.08.2005 Global electronic companies are sending their wastes, that contain hazardous chemicals and substances, to dumping grounds in India and China where these wastes are manually segregated and recycled. Environmental organisation Greenpeace does a recce of dumping grounds in India and China and finds big brands, lying in dirt, waiting to be sorted out.

15.08.2005 Companies that take the plunge into China's cyber-media market expect big dividends in return, but the price paid by ordinary Chinese is just as high. Wendy Ginsberg looks at the virtual and real-world environments that drive Western business to apply the kind of censorship that would never pass at home.

11.08.2005 To mark this week's demonstration ahead of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, Amnesty voices support for the campaign for justice by and for Korean "comfort women" - forced into "sex slavery" during the conflict by the Japanese army.

08.08.2005 Three years to the day to the start of the Beijing Olympics, China is sent a reminder to make good its promise to improve the country's human rights situation.

08.08.2005 On the anniversary of the day the US attacked Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the city's mayor urged the United Nations to establish a committee to work towards a nuclear weapons-free world.

07.08.2005 CARACAS, Aug 5 (IPS) - The atomic bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima 60 years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, may have been the most crucial event of the 20th century. But it was not the top news story.

04.08.2005 NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (IPS) - Japanese investors in India took a few hard lessons in India's tough labour laws when the automobile giant Honda Motors tamely resumed production at its plant outside the national capital this week, ending three months of labour disputes, including pitched battles between police and agitated workers.

03.08.2005 On 25 July, 2005, workers of Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India Pvt Ltd in Gurgaon, Haryana, in North India, were brutally attacked by the police armed with staves. More than 700 received injuries to the head and limbs. The Honda workers were agitating for their right to organize in the face of harassment by the Honda management. The Corporate Accountability Desk of The Other Media, New Delhi, has urged activists to register a protest with the Japanese ambassador to India Mr Yasukuni Enoki over the attitude of the Honda management.

02.08.2005 China’s Ministry of Science and Technology will contribute US$20.000 to UNESCO’s Information for All Programme, declared last week the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC).