Asia Cast for Wednesday 31st October
One person was killed and 42 injured, 15 seriously, in a gas explosion in a building northeast of Paris, emergency officials said on Tuesday. Police said a fire broke out after an explosion of gas mains in the centre of the suburb of Bondy.
“One person was found dead in the wreckage of the building,” a [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 30th October
-The Human Rights Torch Relay comes to Washington
-Pollution causing rise in China birth defects and
-China boom will be stronger for longer
Asia Cast Monday 29th October
Turkish troops battle Kurdish guerrillas
Argentina votes in first female president
Benazir Bhutto receives supporters
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Asia Cast for Sunday 28th October
- Libya opens peace talks on Darfur
- War protestors march across US cities
- China’s plan to clean up polluted waterways
Asia Cast for Saturday 27th October
The Global Human Rights Torch Relay aimed at pressuring China on human rights ahead of the Beijing Olympics has arrived in Australia.
The year-long Torch Relay will visit one-hundred cities on five continents before the 2008 Games, in a campaign which calls for an end to China’s human rights violations.
The relay started in Athens, where the [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 26th October
- US imposes further sanctions on Iran
- Amnesty International concerned over rights in Russia
- Darfur rebels vow to continue attacks
Asia Cast Thursday 25th October
Turkish warplanes attacked a village in northern Iraq on Wednesday, an Iraqi Kurdish security official said, but Turkey said it wanted to hold back from a major incursion to give diplomacy a chance.
The Iraqi official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a Kurdish village in mountainous country near Shiranish Islam, 25 km (15 miles) northeast [...]
Asia Cast for Wednesday 24th October
An epic wave of fast-moving wildfires engulfed a massive swath of southern California on Monday, destroying hundreds of homes as more than two hundred and fifty thousand people were told to evacuate from neighborhoods, schools and hospitals.
At least thirteen fires have spread up to twenty thousand acres, killing one person and injuring more than thirty [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 23rd October
The UN’s expert on human rights has been granted permission to visit Burma by the military government after they had refused them permission for four years.
Paolo Sergio Pinheiro, who visits countries to check on their human rights performance, made repeated requests to visit during that time.
Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win wrote to the UN suggesting [...]
Asia Cast Monday 22nd October
At the end of the Chinese Communist Party’s five-yearly congress, the party has unveiled the leadership line-up that will steer the country for the next five years.
Both President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao won new terms, while four new faces joined the party’s top body, the Politburo Standing Committee.
They included two men seen as [...]
