Full Coverage: East Asia

05/07/2008 President Bush asked last week that the United States give $770 million in emergency food aid to afflicted regions, but this only amounts to an imperfect first step to confront the global food crisis, says economist Arvind Subramanian.

05/07/2008 Filosofi Slavoj Zizekin mukaan länsimaat projisoivat Tiibetiin omat unelmansa henkistymisestä ja pelkonsa Kiinan nousevaa talousmahtia kohtaan. Näin Tiibetin konflikti näyttäytyy meille kovin erilaisena kuin mitä se todellisuudessa on.

05/07/2008 Afrikan maiden johtajat kokoontuvat toukokuun lopussa Japanin Yokohamaan keskustelemaan mantereen kehittämisestä ja Afrikan sekä Japanin yhteistyöstä. Japanin odotetaan kertovan kokouksessa uudesta Afrikalle suunnattavasta tukipaketista.

05/07/2008 The West is projecting not only its own spiritual fantasies on Tibet, but its own economic fears on China, imagining a power struggle quite different from that which has actually happened in Tibet. We have to learn to look at Tibet as it is – and China too, says Slavoj Zizek.

05/06/2008 Coca-Cola is looking to make huge profits as one of the three primary sponsors of the Olympic Torch Relay despite flagrant human rights abuses perpetrated by China, writes grassroots activist Amit Srivastava.

05/06/2008 One of the founders of bambu, a fair trade business making houseware from organic bamboo and other renewable materials, talks about his company's sustainable journey and the green business movement.

05/02/2008 A security think tank updates readers on recent statements made by Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama regarding Iraq, Iran, nuclear weapons and proliferation, India, and North Korea.

05/02/2008 Japanin on kauan kritisoitu olevan maailman lapsipornobisneksen moottori. Kansalliset lait sallivat toistaiseksi lapsipornon hallussapidon ja hankkimisen, kunhan tarkoituksena ei ole levittää materiaalia eteenpäin.