Asia Cast for Wednesday 29th of August
Taleban militants say they have agreed to free a group of South Koreans held hostage for more than a month in Afghanistan.Seoul said the agreement was reached on condition its troops were withdrawn as scheduled by the year’s end. South Korea also agreed to end all missionary work in Afghanistan and stop its citizens from [...]
Asia Cast Tuesday 28th August
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation on Monday after months of questions about his competence and accusations from Congress that he politicized the office to benefit President George W. Bush.Bush, who doggedly supported Gonzales during repeated confrontations with the Democratic-controlled Congress, said Gonzales had endured “months of unfair treatment that has created a [...]
Asia Cast Monday 27th August
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed to a preliminary free trade pact with Japan. ASEAN members aim to turn the whole region into a free trade zone. Japan is a key ASEAN partner, accounting for twelve per cent of the bloc’s world trade in two thousand and six. As well as [...]
Asia Cast for Sunday 24th August
The death toll has continued to rise in southern India, after two explosions on Saturday night killed at least 41 people in Hyderabad in what authorities are calling terrorists attacks.More than 60 people were wounded, several critically, police said. Authorities also found explosives at 16 other locations in and near Hyderabad, said Y.S.R. Reddy, chief [...]
Asia Cast Saturday 25th August
Yuan Weijing, wife of imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Mr. Chen Guangcheng, was seized by police at Beijing Airport on her way to the Philippines to accept a human rights award on behalf of her jailed husband.Yuan Weijing (Mrs. Chen Guangchen) disappeared from Beijing Airport on the morning of August twenty-fourth. It was verified that [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 24th August
Pakistan’s embattled leader, General Pervez Musharraf, could face a key challenge to his rule in the coming months following the expected return of two major opposition leaders.On Thursday, Pakistan’s Supreme Court lifted the exile imposed on former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, ousted from power eight years ago by Musharraf in a bloodless coup. In addition, [...]
Asia Cast For Thursday 23rd August
Myanmar’s military junta arrested 13 prominent dissidents and put gangs of spade-wielding supporters on the streets of Yangon on Wednesday to halt protests against soaring fuel prices and falling living standards.Armed police also took up positions across the country’s biggest city alongside truckloads of men from the army’s feared Union Solidarity and Development Association. Many [...]
Asia Cast For Wednesday 22nd August
Over two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany painted a rosy picture to the world of peace and prosperity during the Berlin Summer Olympics.Outside the same Olympic Stadium, human rights activists last Saturday called for a boycott of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, as the Human Rights Torch Relay made its first stop in [...]
Asia Cast Tuesday 21st August
On the fourteenth of August Shi Ruoping, Li Changyu, Sun Wenguang, Hu Fengdazzle, Teng Biao and Wang Yi, university scholars in China wrote an open letter to the communist regime demanding human rights compliance before the 2008 Olympics.They subsequently presented an eightfold proposal to the Chinese government for the improvement of human rights in China. [...]
Asia Cast Monday 20th August
A Taiwanese China Airlines plane burst into flames after landing on Japan’s island of Okinawa but all one hundred and sixty five people on board are safe. All the passengers and crew had just been evacuated when the fire broke out on the Boeing 737-800 at Naha airport. Television pictures showed flames and smoke billowing [...]
