Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 25th February
In this bulletin: – Chinese regime tightens dissident crackdown, – Beijing launches state-run search engine , – Hong Kong support for China human rights alliance, and – Asia-Pacific nations evacuate thousands from Libya. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** NTD-The Chinese regime has apparently started another crack down on dissidents around the country. [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 18th February
In this bulletin: – Beijing worried by middle-east protests, – Voice of America’s China service faces chop, – Chinese parents play matchmaker, and – Singapore Asia’s greenest metropolis. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** ET-China
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 11th February
In this bulletin: – China’s tainted milk squeezes Hong Kong dry, – Buying restrictions could increase Chinese house prices, – Media entering darkest hour in China, and – Japan, Russia island dispute flares again. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** Ever since China
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 4th February
In this bulletin: – China losing ground as world’s factory, – Chinese bulk buying creates Hong Kong baby formula shortage, – Tibet’s Karmapa Lama reassures followers, and – Chinese Consul shocks New Zealand Councillors. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** Police in Beijing recently beat a renowned dissident immediately upon his release from [...]
asia Cast for the week ending Friday 28th January
In this bulletin: – Public speaking helping defend Chinese human rights, – Drought hits China’s northern breadbasket, – Australian and Indonesia battle flooding, and – South Koreans lapping up fortunes with their lattes. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** A retired university professor recently took his views on government corruption and forced land [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 21st January
In this bulletin: – China’s forced demolitions continue unchecked, – Chinese media given its reporting orders, – ASEAN meeting wraps up, and – UN worried by food prices in Asia. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** Forced demolitions continue in China with government officials and local police brazenly covering for those involved in [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 14th January
In this bulletin: – River diversion won’t solve Beijing’s water shortage, – Torture of Chinese human rights lawyer documented, – North Korea re-opens hotline to the South, and – Thousands across Asia-Pacific affected by flooding. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** According to a former environmental protection worker a major project to divert [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 7th January
In this bulletin: – Shanghai petitioners panic Beijing, – Earthquakes rattle southwest China, – 2010, year of the large scale protest, and – Taiwan doctor wants qigong popularised. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** A group of 1,200 petitioners from Shanghai caused panic in Beijing when they went there en mass. Authorities in [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Thursday 30th December
In this bulletin: – Beijing refuses UN enforced disappearance convention, – Microblogging aids Chinese journalists fight against censorship, – Taiwan study links wealth and energy consumption, and – South Korea presses urgency for denuclearising the North. But first our SOH Network focus on China. ********************** Dissidents in China have criticised the Chinese regime as a [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 17th December
In this bulletin: – Dalian markets selling diseased pork, – Security official charged over Chinse Anti virus scam, – Korean War abductions under investigation , and – Taiwan smashed people smuggling ring. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** SOH Network Chinese reporters recently confirmed an outbreak of foot and mouth disease among pigs [...]
