Full Coverage: East Asia

28.02.2008 Despite the global interest in the rise of China, no-one is paying much attention to its ideas and who produces them. Yet China has a surprisingly lively intellectual class whose ideas may prove a serious challenge to western liberal hegemony, says Mark Leonard.
From Prospect

28.02.2008 An international media freedom group has voiced concern over the health of detained Chinese cyber-dissident and human rights lawyer Yang Maodong, who has been on hunger strike for 11 weeks.
+ CPJ Highlights China's Poor Press Record

25.02.2008 Japanese telecom leader NTT DoCoMo unveiled an innovative Bluetooth handset, the “Sound Leaf Plus” at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The light-weight mobile works when pressed against the bone below the ear and has a high frequency switch for improved sound articulation.

22.02.2008 A season of films celebrating the diversity and breadth of cinema from China comes to the ICA in London, 20 March-10 April.

21.02.2008 It is high time for India and China to move beyond conflicts and start cooperating politically, economically, and technologically for mutual benefits, says Dr. Aqueil Ahmad.

21.02.2008 Key members of a smuggling ring trading tiger skins and bear parts into China will face trial in March after a six-month operation in the Russian far east.

15.02.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 15 (OneWorld) - Steven Spielberg and human rights groups ratcheted up the pressure on China this week while nearly 100,000 activists turned their sights on Wall Street's biggest investment firms, urging them all to wield their power to help bring peace to the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan.

11.02.2008 China is violating its pre-Olympic promises to improve human rights in the country, says an international humanitarian watchdog, citing a recent and "systematic crackdown on dissent."
From: Human Rights Watch

07.02.2008 A Chinese factory is producing millions of kilowatt-hours of electricity by turning cow gas -- also know as methane, the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide -- into clean energy.