Asia Cast Tuesday 31st July
Can China and the United States find common ground?
China sets up pollution blacklist and
China’s rain storm claims six-hundred and fifty lives.
There has been a lot of tension between Washington and Beijing recently. Washington suspects China is cheating at the game of global capitalism, and many in Beijing believe that the United States is worried that [...]
Asia Cast Monday 30th July
Militants occupy Pakistan shrine
Ivorian Coast leader in landmark visit
Falun Gong organ harvesting continues
Islamic militants have occupied a shrine in a tribal district of Pakistan and named it after the Red Mosque in Islamabad, eyewitnesses say.
They are also reportedly planning a religious school for girls, to be named after a seminary in the Red Mosque.
The mosque [...]
Asia Cast for Sunday 29th July
Afhgan leaders join negotiations to free South Korean hostages
The US and India agree to nuclear deal
Japan¡’s Prime Minister faces electoral test of confidence
Several Afghan elders and a former member of the Taliban joined the negotiations with the hardline militia over the fate of 22 South Korean hostages.
No immediate progress was reported by either side, but [...]
Asia Cast for Saturday 28th July
Spielberg ‘may quit Olympic role’
Chinese parents take ‘bad vaccines’ case to court and
China¡¯s food prices increase significantly.
Unless China takes a tougher stance against Sudan, film-maker Steven Spielberg has threatened that he may quit as artistic director of the Beijing Olympics.China, a major investor in Sudan’s oil industry, has been criticised for not sending UN peacekeepers [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 27th July
Nine leaders of a violent anti-government protest in Thailand last Saturday have been detained for further questioning after appearing at a court in the capital.The protesters had accused 86-year-old Prem Tinsulanonda – the most senior adviser to the Thai king – of orchestrating last September’s military coup.
The nine men deny charges of illegal assembly and [...]
Asia Cast Thursday 26th July
In Beijing, the Chinese Communist regime¡¯s security services are expanding their operations in an effort to prevent any form of protesting during the 2008 Beijing Olympic games.
According to the Central News Agency, intelligent service experts and consultants who are familiar with this project expressed that the Chinese communist regime¡¯s security services are currently in the [...]
Asia Cast Wednesday 25th July
In Hungry a deadly heatwave which has seen record temperatures kill at least 500 people in the country in the past week.Temperatures have soared across much of central and southern Europe in recent days, sparking forest fires and causing heat exhaustion across the region.
Hungarian authorities say the toll could have been much higher, were it [...]
Asia Cast Monday 23rd July
Several thousand protesters opposed to Thailand’s military-backed government have clashed with police in the capital, Bangkok.
The crowd staged a rally outside the house of a senior adviser to Thailand’s king.
The protesters say Mr Prem was behind a bloodless coup, which removed the former Prime Minister.
Rocks and bottles of water were thrown at police, in the [...]
Asia Cast Sunday 22nd July
Under mounting global criticism of their prisoner treatment record, US President George Bush has issued an executive order banning the humiliation and cruel treatment of terrorism suspects by CIA operatives.However, some experts and human rights groups are arguing that the wording of the ban is vague and does not specifically say what practices would be [...]
Asia Cast for Saturday 21st July
-Money Or Human Rights?
-Christians in China arrested for an illegal get-together
-Wild Weather causes Chaos in Europe
Representatives from international human rights groups and several oppressed groups in China came to the Pasadena City Council meeting on July the sixteenth, to express their regret and objections over the approved entry of the Chinese government’s float into the [...]
