Full Coverage: East Asia

31.05.2006 According to a new report, China, India, and Brazil could cut their rapidly rising energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25 percent using existing energy efficient technologies.

30.05.2006 The moment of truth for the world's largest dam will arrive on 6 June, when the main concrete wall of China's Three Gorges Dam must begin to hold water after a temporary coffer dam is demolished in a series of explosions.
* Three Gorges Campaign

29.05.2006 With world energy prices and climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions ballooning in tandem with a surge in energy demand from the hot economies of China, India and Brazil, the world has a major stake in the success of energy reduction efforts, particularly in those three countries, say experts concluding a four-year international project.

28.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (OneWorld) - Executives at Yahoo's annual shareholders meeting Thursday turned down a request from the human rights group Amnesty International, which is demanding the world's most visited Web site stop censoring the Internet and referring dissidents to the Chinese government.

27.05.2006 from Climate Change blog:
Both countries are building dirty coal-fired power stations fast. These are not 'clean energy sources' as industry PR suggests: the 'lie that may destroy the Earth's atmospheric system'.

26.05.2006 Amnesty International USA, a Yahoo stockholder, challenged the company to uphold human rights in its operations in China at the annual stockholders meeting Thursday. Yahoo provided sensitive information to the Chinese government that may have helped convict Li Zhi, a civil servant, who was jailed for criticizing the government.

25.05.2006 The group, which focuses on bringing about better understanding between the people of Israel and the Occupied Territories, drew the award committee's attention with its dedication to grassroots projects and "action for peace."

24.05.2006 As Beijing moves forward with construction for the 2008 Summer Olympics, project developers are embracing state-of-the-art energy technologies as well as measures to save water and protect sensitive ecosystems.

23.05.2006 At least 3,000 Chinese scientists will spend three years working in rural communities in developing countries to help improve their food security, China's Ministry of Agriculture announced.

23.05.2006 The decision of China's Public Security Bureau to refuse to allow detained blogger and documentary filmmaker Hao Wu access to a lawyer on national security grounds was dismissed as “absurd” by a media watchdog as Hao began his fourth month in detention.

19.05.2006 Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, the Chinese government...Amnesty International has made it easy for you to tell them all that you want everybody everywhere to be able to freely express themselves and have unfettered access to information through the Internet.

16.05.2006 Fearing that news of land disputes and other civil discontent could fuel a threat to its authority, China’s government has undertaken one of the biggest media crackdowns since the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations, says a new report.

15.05.2006 In China, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others are aiding repression, censorship, and violation of fundamental freedoms. Amnesty International urge you to take action.

11.05.2006 China and India helped to drive up global greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent between 1992 and 2002, fuelling the effects of climate change, the World Bank said.

10.05.2006 For Mercy Corps, the core principles of civil society are participation, accountability, and peaceful change.

09.05.2006 “DO YOU know how serious a mistake you've made?” Yan Yuanzhang recalls an official asking him not long ago. Mr Yan had been summoned to Beijing's Internet Propaganda Management Office to talk about his websites.

08.05.2006 A gentle community gets on with life despite having a wall of missiles pointing at them, reports OneWorld UK's man in East Asia, Nury Vittachi.

02.05.2006 Chinese scientists have found that global warming is seriously affecting the ‘roof of the world’, as west China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau is known.

02.05.2006 The Stanford University School of Medicine has signed on to a deal that will provide consumers and health professionals in China access to leading medical research in the United States.