Asia Cast Saturday 30th June
- Chinese deportee tells of torture -Rocket Hits Ivory Coast PM’s Plane, Kills Four and -Hong Kong authority bans Falun Gong practitioners from entering the region Earlier this year a Chinese man who was deported from Australia has spoken out claiming he was interrogated and tortured after returning to China.The man, whose real name can [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 29th June
-New British PM makes sweeping changes to government – EU bans Indonesian airlines -US meets with Burmese officials New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has named David Miliband, a reported critic of the Iraq war, as his foreign minister as part of a wide-ranging government shake-up.Brown, who switched from finance minister to prime minister on [...]
Asia Cast Thursday 28th June
- Over a hundred children infected with AIDS – Hong Kong rejects Taiwanese Falun Gong practitioners – 13 suspected drug traffickers killed in Brazil slum More than 100 children have been infected with the AIDS virus in the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. So far 10 children have died, and after a lengthy court case, [...]
Asia Cast Wednesday 27th June
-Germany Finds Three More Cases of Bird Flu -Country Spends 30 Million on a Building While School Requests Aid from Japan -John Laws Set to Leave the Airwaves Germany identified three more cases of bird flu in swans on Tuesday, bringing the total number of wild birds infected to nine, but authorities said they had [...]
Asia Cast Tuesday 26th June
An international meeting on Darfur ended on Monday with promises to support peace-keeping efforts and a political process to stop the violence in western Sudan but with few concrete steps.The nations at the conference, which included major aid donors, the Group of Eight industrialized nations and Sudan’s ally China, offered few details of exactly how [...]
Asia Cast Monday 25th June
A plane travelling between tourist destinations in Cambodia has gone missing and is feared to have crashed, aviation officials in the country say. At least twenty people were believed to be on board, including thirteen South Koreans, three Czechs and the Cambodian crew. The plane was travelling between Siem Reap, home to the famous Angkor [...]
Asia Cast for Sunday 24th June
Leading pro-Beijing figure, Tsang Tak-sing, has been appointed to the Hong Kong government in a new cabinet announced on Saturday.The appointment of Tsang Tak-sing to the important job of home affairs secretary confirms a shift toward a more pro-Beijing establishment in Hong Kong. The new government will be sworn in on 1 July, when Hong [...]
Asia Cast Saturday 23rd June
On Saturday, top U.S nuclear envoy Christopher Hill has said that the United States expects North Korea to shut down the reactor at the heart of its nuclear arms program, probably within three weeks.Hill, who made a brief trip to the isolated East Asian state this week, also said the next round of six-party talks [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 22nd June
Afghanistan¡’s President Hamid Karzai has told his people that the Taleban do not pose a threat to long-term stability in the country.In an interview with the BBC, a defiant Mr Karzai dismissed threats from the militant group that it plans to step up attacks on the capital, Kabul, and said previous Taleban and al-Qaeda rulers [...]
Asia Cast Thursday 21st June
Just hours after some ten thousand US troops launched a new offensive against a Sunni Islamist group north of Baghdad; a suspected al Qaeda bomber killed seventy-eight people when he rammed a truck into a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday. The US offensive was one of the biggest military operations since the invasion of [...]
