Asia Cast Thursday 11th October
Chinese regime attempts to arrest vocal competition contestants Taiwan marks its national day with a military parade Demands for the safety of human rights lawyer Li He Ping Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d919′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Asia Cast for Wednesday 10th October
An anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube has been launched by the Australian Governement. In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges all countries to stop catching and killing whales. The video includes footage of humpback whales, as well as Australian children proclaiming support for a [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 9th October
Britain will halve its force in Iraq to two-thousand five-hundred troops from spring next year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday against a backdrop of noisy anti-war protesters outside parliament waving “troops out” banners. In his first major foreign policy speech to parliament, Brown also announced plans to allow Iraqis who have worked for [...]
Asia Cast – Monday 8th October
A severe storm system drenched China’s southeast on Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people on the mainland, including more than 500,000 tourists who were at beach resorts for the National Day holiday week. Krosa came ashore as a typhoon in China’s Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, but [...]
Asia Cast – Sunday 7th October
Mainland China is braces itself for typhoon Krosa, US authorities recall more than six-hundred thousand Chinese-made toys, the latest in a series of product scares involving Chinese goods, and Elections for a constituent assembly in Nepal are postponed as ruling parties and former Maoist rebels fail to break their political deadlock. Bookmark It Hide Sites [...]
Asia Cast for Saturday 6th October
In the early morning of the Moon Cake Festival, eighteen Falun Gong practitioners in Xiantao City of Hubei Province have been arrested by the “6.10 Office”, Xiantao Municipal Public Security and local police stations. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d914′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Asia Cast for Wednesday 03rd October
In the southern Philippines Four navy commandos have been killed in a gun fight with suspected Islamist militants, military officials have said. At least six militants died in the clash, which took place on Lanhil island, north-east of restive Basilan. The Philippine military recently stepped up its offensive against militants in the south of the [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 2nd October
After a morning of pouring rain, the skies cleared for the welcoming ceremony for the Human Rights Torch relay at Schumann Place in Brussels, Belgium. Members of almost all the parties in Belgium’s Parliament supported the event. One of the Belgian Torch Relay ambassadors, Senator Vankrunkelsven, who carried out his own investigation into illegal organ [...]
Asia Cast Monday 1st October
United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari met with Myanmar’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday in an effort to quell recent tensions between the country’s military leaders and protesters. The encounter is seen as a breakthrough of sorts, as Suu Kyi is under house arrest and has been barred by the government from meeting [...]
