Asia Pacific
A round-up of the week's news in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Can international law help Myanmar's Rohingya people
There are now 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, living in camps near the border with Myanmar. They fled burning villages, killings, rape, mutilations perpetrated by the Myanmar army and civilians. Today they are seeking legal actions against the alleged perpetratrors of crimes they qualify as genocide. The International Criminal Court has already been set into motion but legal experts believe there are better, more expeditious proceedings.09/06/201811:40 -
Japan's disaster a regional concern
Japan's earthquake and tsunami dominate regional headlines as concerns grow over the humanitarian situation, and workers continue the struggle to control radiation leaks at the damaged fukushima plant.26/03/201106:31 -
Horror in Japan, US-Pakistan relations
This week, a Japanese horror story, and Pakistan-US relations move one step forward, several steps back.19/03/201106:53 -
Tragedy in Japan, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Japan is struck by earth and sea quake; Pakistan's internal strife and confusing poverty alleviation, politics and justice in Bangladesh with the case of Grameen bank founder Muhammad Yunus.13/03/201106:58 -
Grameen sacking, India, Pakistan,
A hazy outlook for the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, allegations of corruption directed at an anti-corruption boss in India, heavy sentences in 2002 Gujarat train-fire case and killing religious understanding in Pakistan.05/03/201106:59 -
New Zealand quake, Franco-Malaysian business
The effects of the big eartquake in New Zealand this week; asking why rebels in Afghanistan choose Kunduz province; and looking at what makes Franco-Malaysian business turnouver.26/02/201107:48 -
Musharraf arrest warrant, Philippines peace talks, and China, the pouncing tiger
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf says he will not comply with a warrant for his arrest over alleged links to the murder of Benezir Bhutto; the Philippino government resumes peace talks with communist-led rebels after six years, while China becomes the world's second largest economy, overtaking its Asian neighbour Japan.19/02/201106:57 -
Lanka floods, Cambodia-Thailand clashes, Korea, Jordan
Floods devastate Sri Lanka again, Cambodia and Thailand clash over a disputed temple, North and South Korea and Jordan protests.12/02/201106:58 -
Fighting corruption, avoiding a cyclone and rebuilding Sri Lanka
India grapples with corruption; Australia grapples with powerful wind and Sri Lanka grapples with the aftermath of war.05/02/201106:58 -
Kashmir tensions, civil rights court fight and Australian flood tax
Tensions in Kashmir, a civil rights defender appeals to an Indian court over his life sentence, and Australia levies a tax to cope with its devastating floods.29/01/201108:06 -
The effects of El Nina, and educating girls in Afghanistan
This week, Asia Pacific looks at the effects of El Nina, and educating girls in Afghanistan.15/01/201106:59 -
Instability in Pakistan, floods in Australia and Al Sadr's homecoming
Pakistan dominates the news in the region this week with the assassination of the governor of Punjab and a major political crisis as the second largest party leaves the government coalition. In Australia, residents of the state of Queensland are struggling to cope with floods described as being of biblical proportions. And Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al Sadr returns to Iraq after nearly four years outside the country.08/01/201107:30 -
Wargames in the Korean peninsula, bombs in Pakistan and weapons in India
Wargames around the Korean peninsula as well as using and testing weapons in Pakistan and developing weapons in India25/12/201007:29 -
Bangladesh strike, Pakistan, Turkey, China
Textile workers in Bangladesh take to the streets in protest against low wages. Pakistan's most high-profile Islamic party pulls out of the governing coalition over the dismissal of a cabinet minister. Nearly 200 soldiers go on trial in Turkey in a landmark case over an alleged 2003 plot to overthrow the government. And China's premier in India to boost bilateral ties between the two countries17/12/201007:30 -
Sarkozy in India, Malaysia, China at Cancun
Riots over water erupt in Malaysia, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy visits India and China is not the big baddy some make it out to be at the Cancun climate talks.11/12/201007:30
Asia Pacific
A round-up of the week's news in the Asia-Pacific region.