Full Coverage: East Asia

23.06.2006 China's plans to exploit the power of Southeast Asia's last great wild river by building a giant staircase of dams stretching from Tibet down through Yunnan province puts a region of unique natural and cultural wealth under threat, says Ola Wong.

22.06.2006 China has opened a new research centre to help plan for future wind and solar energy plants.

21.06.2006 China has opened a new centre to assess its potential to generate wind and solar energy.

21.06.2006 After claims of victory from both sides at this week's international meeting on whaling and despite the global whaling moratorium, more whales than ever are being caught and killed on the open seas each year, a leading environmental organisation has warned.
+ Greenpeace protest disrupted in St Kitts

21.06.2006 UNESCO Bangkok's ICT in Education unit has recently released a directory and associated CD-ROM of ICT resources for teachers. The directory describes the content on the UNESCO SchoolNet CD-Rom, which is a set of ICT-based resources for teaching and learning of science, mathematics and language for use with secondary-level students.

20.06.2006 China, trying to cut dependence on imported oil, will use cassava-based ethanol fuel for cars in the southern region Guangxi in 2007, state media.

19.06.2006 Pro-whaling countries finally obtained a narrow majority in favour of increased whaling and against conservation at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission.
* Reports from the Greenpeace team

16.06.2006 Yahoo! comes out as worst offender in censorship tests on Chinese versions of Internet search engines carried out by a leading media freedom group.

15.06.2006 China’s government plans to create new fiscal policies to encourage the development of biomass energy – derived from plant matter like trees, agricultural crops, and a range of organic wastes and residues.

14.06.2006 A savage attack on a critic of China's massive Three Gorges dam - apparently for talking to a German television journalist - has left him with a fractured neck and possible permanent paralysis.

13.06.2006 China has a vision of lifelong learning in which information and communication technologies -based (ICTs) distance education and electronic learning are key components.

12.06.2006 China is fast emerging as one of the world’s biggest, most secretive and irresponsible arms exporters, according to a new report issued today.

12.06.2006 from Treehugger:
Big oil companies take plenty of flack for destroying the environment and China is criticised for its growth as a big carbon emitter, but few in North America and Europe acknowledge the ‘toxic black cloud that follows’ them as individual consumers.

09.06.2006 from The Green Skeptic blog:
'The world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, surprisingly has emerged as a powerhouse in renewable energy.'

09.06.2006 The World Bank’s Board (International Development Association) has approved an investment grant of US$ 8 million for the Information and Communications Infrastructure Development Project (ICIDP).

08.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (OneWorld) - U.S. military and economic might in South Korea are being called into question this week as villagers launched a hunger strike to protest a U.S. military base expansion that would force them from their lands and farmers' unions demonstrated in Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement.

08.06.2006 The Yangtze river is suffering from an early stage of cancer - and without urgent intervention, its condition is likely to worsen, warns Ma Jun.

07.06.2006 Researchers have genetically modified a plant to make it tolerate low levels of boron, a nutrient often lacking from soils, especially in southeast China and Pakistan.

07.06.2006 Several sluice gates have been simultaneously reopened to reconnect eight lakes to the Yangtze River - the first step in restoring natural ecological processes that will help heal the degraded central and lower wetland ecosystem.

07.06.2006 China's drive for economic growth is in direct conflict with efforts to safeguard the environment, the government warned, and degradation is worsening despite official efforts to curb pollution.