Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 30th September
In this bulletin: – Another train crash dents China’s rail safety record, – Discontent growing over land expropriation , – Fans rally for silenced Indonesian broadcaster, and – Asia increasing IT competitiveness. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** ET-Hundreds of passengers were injured in a rear-end train collision on a one-year-old Shanghai subway [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 23rd September
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Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 12th August
In this bulletin: – Facing restrictions Chinese journalists blog news instead, – Movement to quit CCP reaches 100 million participants, – New Tibetan political head sworn in, and – Taiwan’s population rapidly ageing. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** ET-Faced with restrictions on permissible reports, Chinese journalists have turned to Sina.com and other [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 5th August
In this bulletin: – Chinese media break reporting restrictions over train crash, – China now cloning entire stores, – Independent broadcaster safely aboard new satellite, and – Thailand elects first female prime minister. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** NTD-Since the high-speed train crash in Wenzhou July 23, the Chinese regime
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 8th July
In this bulletin: – Beijing’s migrant population reaches 7 million, – Xinjiang tense around riot anniversary, – South China Sea row continues, and – Australian cities some of the most expensive. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** ET-Official figures show Bejing
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 1st July
In this bulletin: – China slammed for extending journalist’s detention, – Beijing tested by torrential rain, – Support keeps independent Taiwan broadcaster on-air, and – World’s largest tropical island yields new species. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** NTD-Press freedom advocates have criticised the Chinese regime for sentencing a journalist to eight more [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 3rd June
In this bulletin: – No justice for China’s toxic-milk victims, – Three Gorges Dam should be dismantled, – Talks stall on independent Taiwanese TV broadcaster, and – Retirees volunteer for Japan nuclear clean-up. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** Following the recent revelation of a secret compensation fund set up after the 2008 [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 13th May
- Democracy Party targeted in eastern China, – Lin Zhoa remembered, – Independent media under threat in Taiwan, and – Stolen koala found in trash bin. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** Recently SOH has received several reports from eastern China’s Zhejiang Province of Democracy Party members being arrested. Zhu Yufu was detained [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 22nd April
In this bulletin: – Hundreds brawl in Guangzhou over commercial property, – Chinese comedians break new ground, – China slammed by independent internet freedom report, and – Inner Mongolia yields largest fossilised spider discovery. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** A well known dissident from Zhejiang Province has been charged with inciting subversion [...]
Asia Cast for the week ending Friday 15th April
In this bulletin: – China’s shady medical blackmarkets, – Vietnamese still held over China shortwave broadcast, – Petitioners rebut claims China improving human rights, and – Australian children’s surprising second language. But first our SOH focus on China. ********************** An SOH Chinese reporter recently looked into the shady world of China’s illegal trade in kidneys [...]
