Full Coverage: East Asia

30.03.2006 More incidents of mass public fur burning have been reported in far eastern Tibet, in the wake of the Dalai Lama's appeal for an end to the use of wildlife skins as clothing or for decoration during festivals.

30.03.2006 Despite being the most populous developing country and in the middle of an enormous urbanization process, China contributed very little to the forum billed as the counterbalance to those of the economic elites.

29.03.2006 Chinese consumers who buy cars with engine capacities of more than four litres will have to pay a consumption tax of 20 percent from April.

29.03.2006 Despite China's image as the sweatshop of the world, the country's homegrown technology sector is beginning to bloom.

29.03.2006 South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun has nominated Han Myeong Sook to be the next prime minister.

28.03.2006 Name the huge Asian country which is set to become a dominant global economic force powered by the world’s largest population.
Hands up all those who said China.
The answer is India.
Nury Vittachi offers a personal slant on a geopolitical struggle.

27.03.2006 As Korea enters into negotiations with the United States regarding a proposed bilateral trade agreement, analysts warn of the constraints this agreement will place on Koreans' access to health care and medicines that are currently easily accessible.

24.03.2006 China will continue its one-child policy, the director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, Zhang Weiqing, said in an online forum.

23.03.2006 China has shut down an unspecified number of domestic porn and illegal websites in its latest crackdown on Internet porn and piracy, state media reported today.

22.03.2006 Children must be at the centre of a dramatically scaled up response to HIV and AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific, organisers of the first high-level regional meeting focusing on children and AIDS said.

21.03.2006 China plans to boost coal output by up to 18 percent before 2010 to meet soaring energy needs despite environmental concerns, a government newspaper quoted an industry official as saying.

20.03.2006 Kenya and other African countries are beginning to sour on the edicts laid down by their Western allies, looking instead China to help them grow economically and politically, some analysts are saying.

17.03.2006 Phuntsog Nyidrol, one of the Tibetan "singing nun" protesters in Drapchi prison, has reached the US after being allowed to leave China.

13.03.2006 Dozens of hunger-striking dissidents protesting against Beijing's human rights policies have gone missing or been detained, victims of a "clean-up" ahead of a meeting of China's parliament, reports Jehangir Pocha.
* China: house arrests stifle HIV/AIDS petitions

13.03.2006 The U.S. released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights practices for 2005 last Wednesday. China wasted no time in offering its annual retort, drawing on dozens of U.S. media reports to hold the mirror up to the "self-styled 'guardian of human rights.'"

08.03.2006 Evidence of Tibet’s growing economy is easy to spot these days. Just take a walk down Barkhor Street in Lhasa’s main shopping district. Here, in the Tibetan capital, deals are being struck left and right — from carpets and prayer wheels to exotic fruits and plastic shoes. Unfortunately, the boom includes a growing trend in the wildlife trade as well.

07.03.2006 The Chinese Communist Party is preparing a new five-year development plan that will focus on raising living standards for the country's 800 million peasants, who have suffered as the income gap between urban and rural dwellers continues to widen.

07.03.2006 As China’s grows and expands, opportunities also arise for Africa, says Stephen Marks.

02.03.2006 Drive-by thieves who use violence may now face the death penalty, according to an announcement by the provincial authorities in China's Guangdong province.

02.03.2006 As much as 10–40% of the air pollutants emitted in the Pearl River Delta region in China, one of the world’s fastest growing industrial areas, can be tied to exports, a new report shows.