Full Coverage: East Asia

24.01.2008 The death sentence imposed on a young Malaysian woman caught smuggling narcotics by Beijing authorities has aroused condemnation among Malaysians who are now questioning their own country's death penalty.

23.01.2008 Greenpeace activists temporarily blocked the Japanese whaling fleet's factory ship from illegally refuelling in Antarctic waters yesterday - the latest skirmish in a two-week battle.

21.01.2008 Still Life starts with a huge advantage: it is set in a town being demolished brick by brick, stone by stone, before being flooded by China’s vast Three Gorges dam.

18.01.2008 Rebiya, a woman from the Uighur community in western China, was forced to flee her home due to her father's involvement in controversial political matters and now struggles to attain citizenship in Kyrgyzstan, her land of refuge.

10.01.2008 China's surprising move to ban the manufacturing and distribution of plastic bags commonly used at grocery stores follows a growing movement that will help rid the ocean of the bags' toxic residues.

09.01.2008 A nationwide campaign against plastic bags has been launched in China, with the government banning production of ultra-thin bags and forbidding supermarkets and shops from handing out free carriers from 1 June.
From China Daily

07.01.2008 Backed by a government intent on promoting innovation and fuelled by a "brain gain" of scientists and entrepreneurs returning from abroad, China’s health biotech industry only needs a more favourable investment climate to emerge as a global force in the production of therapies and medicines, says a new study.

07.01.2008 China is introducing new censorship regulations to control online posting of videos and audio files.

04.01.2008 "The United States has been so focused on the Middle East that it has missed the great movements of the world," including China's pragmatic and expansive investment in Africa and the rise of the left in Latin America, says Richard Rodriguez.
From: New America Media

03.01.2008 China has been urged to accelerate the abolition of the death penalty instead of expanding its lethal injection programme.