Full Coverage: East Asia

30.08.2007 WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (OneWorld) - One of the most favorable yet systematically overlooked characteristics of solar, wind, biomass, and other types of organic energy is their universality.

24.08.2007 From an eco-village off the coast of Shanghai to a mobile classroom that brings eco-friendly projects to rural schools and raises awareness among young people, China is confronting its CO2 problem in innovative ways.

23.08.2007 Chinese cyber-dissident and blogger He Weihua's enforced confinement in a psychiatric hospital is an outrage, says an international media freedom group.
+ Jailed Dissident's Wife Under House Arrest in Beijing

21.08.2007 As China aims to slow the growth of its wealth gap by developing the country's interior, its water policies threaten to inflict irreversible damage to the regional environment. Photojournalist Jack Carino explains.

19.08.2007 COPENHAGEN, Aug 18 (OneWorld) - Though China would like to be seen at the next Olympics as a major world power that stands for international peace, an Olympic-style torch relay that began in Africa this week is painting a different picture of the giant Asian nation.

15.08.2007 This year’s sixth anniversary celebration of the Tokyo Pride Parade exemplifies the slow but steady growth of awareness and acceptance regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues in Japan. Japanese bloggers and participants share their thoughts and reactions.

14.08.2007 Actress Mia Farrow and fellow campaigners have begun an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocide to press China to help end abuses in the Darfur region of its oil trading partner, Sudan.
From: Canada.com

12.08.2007 Japan was once the largest borrower from the World Bank, the institution's president, Robert B. Zoellick, said during a visit to the country in which he noted a six-year decline in Tokyo’s aid budget.

09.08.2007 Attempts to adjust gross domestic product across China by accounting for its toll on the local environment are floundering.

08.08.2007 The 10th anniversary of the weblog leads advocates for fairer globalization to reflect on the pro-democratic power of “citizen journalism” in countries like China, South Korea, and Iran.

07.08.2007 The anniversaries of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are reminders of the continued peril that humanity faces - a peril far too serious to be left only in the hands of government leaders, says David Krieger.

07.08.2007 One year before the Olympic Games open in Beijing, the Chinese government severely restricts and censors the domestic press despite its promise to “give the media complete freedom,” the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in a new report.
From: Committee to Protect Journalists

07.08.2007 A call for the release of the approximately 100 journalists, cyber-dissidents and free speech activists imprisoned in China has been made at an unauthorised news conference outside the building that houses the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.