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Asia Cast for Monday 21st January
In this Bulletin…
- Malaysia to send home foreign workers;
- Cuban’s vote in parliamentary elections; and
- The UK announces new aid package for India.
Local newspapers in Malaysia say the Government expects to send home at least 200,000 foreign workers by next year to open up more jobs for its citizens.
Presently, approximately 2.3 million foreign workers are [...]
Asia Cast for Saturday 3rd November
-Lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s First Contact with Outside World
-World Powers Discuss Iran Sanctions in London and
-Europeans Face Trial in Chad Over Children
Asia Cast Friday 2nd November
- Mexicans homeless after the country’s worst flooding in 50 years
- London’s police force found guilty of wrongful killing
- UN member states consider further action against Iran
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 Monday 29th October
Turkish troops battle Kurdish guerrillas
Argentina votes in first female president
Benazir Bhutto receives supporters
Read on for more
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 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 [...]



