Full Coverage: East Asia

27.12.2006 from China Daily:
Global warming could have a major effect on the health of the Chinese people and the country's agriculture, according to a new report.

22.12.2006 from Worldwatch Institute:
In China, where greenhouse gas emissions are quickly catching up with those of the United States, people are already starting to feel the effects of a changing climate.

22.12.2006 The world's new economic powerhouses, including India, Brazil, South Africa and China, are largely responsible for a dramatic surge in trade and investments among the 132 developing nations in the global South.

15.12.2006 A growing number of journalists are being imprisoned around the world for publishing their work on the Internet, with one in three cases made up of individuals whose work appeared primarily on the web or by e-mail, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found.

06.12.2006 from Planet Ark:
"There is a sense of urgency in China," says Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the British government's economic service. "It's important to recognise that China is moving, and moving quite quickly."

05.12.2006 "The environmental crisis in China is dead serious," says Chinese-born Dale Wen in an interview looking at the nexus between economic growth, environmental harm, democracy, and globalization.

04.12.2006 Nobel Prize Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen Bank, Professor Muhammad Yunus, announced at the ITU TELECOM WORLD 2006 opening ceremony at Hong Kong that Grameen will team up the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and other partners, including Cisco Systems, QUALCOMM and a newly formed consortium, Enclusion, to launch a virtual, global 'ICT Empowerment Network' as part of their collaboration through the Connect the World initiative.