Full Coverage: East Asia
July 2008
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31.07.2008
Japan’s cabinet has adopted a plan to slash carbon emissions up to 80% by 2050 by starting carbon trading and stepping up research on carbon-capture technologies.
more...From: LiveMint.com/AFP Related topics/regions: [Japan] [Renewable energy] [Climate change] [Credit and investment] |
30.07.2008
The Chinese authorities have confirmed that the 20,000 foreign journalists covering the Olympic Games will not have unrestricted access to the Internet during their stay.
more...From: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related topics/regions: [China] Image: Olympicswatch
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29.07.2008
The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country’s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, according to an international rights group.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [China] Image: olimpiadi in Cina - da Olympicswatch.org
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11.07.2008
Nervous about letting the kids go on a school trip? Forget it – and forget health and safety. Put your worries in perspective by watching six blind Tibetan children trying to climb the 23,000-ft Lhakpa Ri on north side of Mt Everest.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [Tibet] [Disability] Image: Sonam Bhumtso, 15 years old — after joining Braille Without Borders’ school in 2000 she became one of the first blind students to be integrated into a sighted elementary school. She recently graduated first in her class from her sighted middle school. She speaks English, Chinese and Tibetan.
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02.07.2008
Controls have been increased at Tokyo's main airport in an attempt to keep "trouble-makers" away from the forthcoming G8 Summit of industrialised countries, says a press service for the "independent radical left movement" that opposes the G8 countries.
more...Related topics/regions: [Japan] Image: Marching to the G8 meeting at Gleneagles, July 2005 © Peter Armstrong
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