Full Coverage: East Asia

30.03.2008 A new generation of Bus Rapid Transit Systems has opened in China, says Karl Fjellstrom.

24.03.2008 Three Reporters Without Borders representatives, including secretary-general Robert Ménard, today unfurled a banner showing the Olympic rings transformed into handcuffs at the official Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece (photo, right).
+ Investigate Crackdown Before Torch Relay’s Passage Through Tibet

24.03.2008 In contrast to Chinese and Western media, local bloggers are providing balanced assessments and objective accounts on the current situation in Tibet, writes Xujun Eberlein.

21.03.2008 "The government of Nepal should cease arbitrary arrests and detentions, harassment, and the use of excessive force to silence Tibetan protesters, activists and journalists," says Human Rights Watch.
From: Human Rights Watch

21.03.2008 The last thing China wanted, in the year it is to host the Olympic Games, was the world watching its army brutally suppressing protesters, says Lindsay Hilsum.
New Statesman
+ Nepali Government Should Stop Doing Beijing’s Bidding
* Unrest in Tibet

21.03.2008 BANGKOK, Mar 20 (IPS) - New technology, religion, and the market must be harnessed to secure basic toilet facilities for Asia's rural and urban poor, sanitation experts from the region said here Thursday.

19.03.2008 China has barred or expelled virtually all international reporters from Tibet, but the world is still watching. OneWorld TV has compiled a YouTube playlist of top Tibet coverage.

19.03.2008 Using China's forests and 'idle land' to produce biofuels could pose a threat to biodiversity, experts warned at an international meeting.

19.03.2008 With international attention focused on the violence in Tibet, the Chinese media are confronting massive censorship, leaving the Chinese public largely in the dark, says an international media network.
+ Call for Boycott of Beijing Olympics Ceremony

17.03.2008 China expects India to somehow persuade the Dalai Lama to call for peace in Tibet and resume the process of negotiations, The Times of India reported.
+ 'The world will not look away'
+ Crackdown away from the eye of the media
From: Times of India

17.03.2008 Hu Yan's migrant family -- one of the million in China -- lived in 12 different cities before settling in Beijing, where she has finally gotten the opportunity to attend the capital's only middle school for the children of migrant workers.

15.03.2008 The Chinese authorities announced on Saturday that people who took part in riots that rocked Tibet's regional capital, Lhasa, must surrender by Monday midnight, Xinhua news agency reported.
From The Times of India
* 'Cultural Genocide' Claims in Indian Parliament
* News and pictures from Tibet

14.03.2008 Serious violence broke out in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, which witnessed shops and police vehicles being set on fire on Friday.
From Times of India

14.03.2008 Rajinder Puri says Tibetan protests are occurring now because China wants to showcase the Beijing Olympics as proof of its arrival as a world superpower and Tibetans smell their chance to create enough embarrassment for Beijing to force it to revise its Tibet policy.
From The Statesman

12.03.2008 Several hundred Tibetan exiles defied an Indian government ban and pressed ahead on Wednesday with a march protesting Beijing's hosting of this summer's Olympic Games.
From Times of India

12.03.2008 Drowning is the biggest killer of children who die from injuries in Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, according to new surveys.

11.03.2008 WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (OneWorld) - Air quality concerns in Beijing have prompted the world's record holder in the marathon to pull out of the premiere long-distance running event at this year's Olympic Games.

11.03.2008 President Bush rallied rich nations last week to join the the U.K., Japan, and the United States in committing billions of dollars for developing countries to expand their renewable energy capacity.

11.03.2008 China's glaringly discriminatory policies towards the country's autonomous, ethnically Uighur region are threatening to "eliminate us as a people," says Uighur rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Rebiya Kadeer.

11.03.2008 Indian police halted a solidarity march by exiled Tibetans on the grounds that it violated an understanding between the government and the Dalai Lama against 'anti-China' activities on Indian soil.