Full Coverage: East Asia

27.04.2006 Chinese blogger Hao Wu is the victim of state abduction as more than two months have gone by since his arrest without his family getting any news about him, said an international media watchdog.

26.04.2006 The US is close to losing its place as the top spam sending nation on Earth.

25.04.2006 KATHMANDU, Apr 25 (IPS) - Nepal's capital was light-hearted again Tuesday. From the hundreds of thousands who marched, danced and sang on the roads, to the store-keepers idly chatting before open shops, to the pedestrians speaking on mobile phones nimbly side-stepping potholes, relief and normality were in the air hours after the king bowed to "people power" rather than face a protest headed for the palace gates.

24.04.2006 BOB Wang has a new habit during his Metro trip to work daily - reading news on a mobile phone screen.

24.04.2006 China and ASEAN ICT ministers issued a joint statement here on Friday, reiterating commitment to further strengthen their cooperation in the field of information and communication technology (ICT).

24.04.2006 China's Ministry of Science and Technology announced Friday the start of on-line applications for national research and development programs and an end to paper applications by 2010.

21.04.2006 A coalition of conservation organisations is calling on the US Administration to vigorously oppose Japanese efforts to gain international approval for whaling at the forthcoming meeting of the International Whaling Commission.

20.04.2006 Residents of Lhasa in Tibet have stopped displaying animal skins after they found that monks were burning animal skins. Yeshi Dorje, a resident of Lhasa has said that thousands of people turned up for the skin-burning event but the Chinese authorities are preventing people from destroying the skins.

17.04.2006 Through a lengthy covert operation, Japan is poised to seize control of whale hunting - and that spells disaster for the endangered mammal, reports a British national newspaper.

17.04.2006 World Trade Organisation members are urged to press China to end excessive media controls, on the grounds that newly-adopted regulations in Beijing curbing the liberalisation of the news media are contrary to the principles of the organisation.

17.04.2006 China plans to open up a trade market on the Tibet-India border twice a week from June which will mark the first direct trade link in India's north eastern region since the Sino-Indian border war of 1962.

17.04.2006 The Chinese government made it clear at the UN climate change conference in Montreal last December that it was aware of the extreme dangers that China faces from both immediate and long-term climate change. Agnès Sinai reports.

14.04.2006 As Japan’s whaling fleet returned home from its Antarctic hunt with the largest catch in over 20 years, an environmental action group called on seafood giant Maruha to use its influence to help stop the killing of the world’s whales.

13.04.2006 Yahoo! executives are today scheduled to meet an international media watchdog which wants the company to stop cooperating with the Chinese authorities in arrests of activists and journalists.

10.04.2006 The London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, has been asked to raise the cases of some of China's many victims of censorship during his promotional visit to the country.

10.04.2006 The independent Forest Stewardship Council has launched an initiative in China that marks the first formal steps toward the development of a forest certification scheme in the country.

07.04.2006 Following moves that "demolish the commercial foundation of the Japanese whaling industry", Greenpeace has urged five Pacific countries to stop voting with Japan at the International Whaling Commision.

07.04.2006 Nearly thirty thousand Tibetans from India, Tibet and other parts of the world, who had gathered for the ‘spring teaching’ of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, attended an awareness stall at Mcleodganj held by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) and the Care for the Wild International (CWI).

06.04.2006 The company that carries out Japan’s "scientific" whaling under contract to the Institute of Cetacean Research announced share changes and an intention to stop its canning and sale of whalemeat.

05.04.2006 A new five percent tax on disposable wooden chopsticks is a sure sign that the Chinese government is now ready to address growing charges that its rapid economic development is impacting the global environment.