Asia

After days of ethnic riots, China deployed thousands of soldiers on the streets of Urumqi, after President Hu Jintao returned from the G8 summit in Italy to take charge of the situation

Soldiers storm city in turmoil

China's President Hu Jintao abandons G8 summit as paramilitary take over streets

Inside Asia

Family berate murder suspect's parents

Thursday, 9 July 2009

The family of a teacher murdered in Japan pleaded with her suspected killer's parents to "redeem some self-respect" and help to trace him.

Women's rights 'in decline' in Afghanistan

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Women in Afghanistan are facing increasing violence almost eight years after the fall of the Taliban, a UN report showed today.

Clegg: Lives 'thrown away' in Afghanistan

Thursday, 9 July 2009

The cross-party consensus on Afghanistan was rocked today after the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg criticised the Government's handling of the campaign.

Spotted again? India wants to bring back the cheetah

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Andrew Buncombe: A Mughal Emperor kept more than 1,000 for hunting, but the big cat was declared extinct in the country 60 years ago.

The man helping to shape a new Afghanistan strategy

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Australian army colonel David Kilcullen played an important role in shaping US strategy in the 'war on terror'. Now his talents are being put to the test again.

Detained doctors recant Sri Lanka death reports

Thursday, 9 July 2009

A group of Sri Lankan doctors who have been in police custody for nearly two months were brought before the media yesterday to recant their reports of mass civilian casualties during the final days of the civil war.

Ben Chu: Pakistan ends its state of denial

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Like Israel's nuclear weapons, the links between the Pakistani security services and the terrorist groups which operate in that country have long been public knowledge but never officially admitted. Until now, that is.

Grace Boyle: The Riverkeeper, the factories, and the daily battle to quell 170m litres of toxic effluent

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Jose is the Riverkeeper, the first in Asia. His guard is the Periyar River.

Andrew Buncombe: Power cuts all round but not for India's politicians

Thursday, 9 July 2009

In these dog days of summer when the mercury soars and grid appears overloaded, there's a familiar routine I find myself in every afternoon. Somewhere around 3pm, trying to get some work done in my office, I find myself staring at the air-conditioner, urging it, begging it, to please keep going. The worst sound in an Indian summer is for the machine to come to a spluttering halt, indicating that the power has just gone.