7th March 2011
China To Be First State to Openly Monitor Citizens’ Location
It may well appear innocuous enough: a simple, technologically-driven method of easing congestion, enabling the authorities to accurately plan the road, rail and bus networks of an over-populated and increasingly congested city. Welcome to the spin!
1st September 2010
Afghan President Eyes Up Future Power
In a situation where neighbouring countries are changing their constitutions to enable a one man power-grip, it has now been claimed that the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, is seeking to extend his tenure past the two terms limit.
9th August 2010
Political Activists Concerned at New Russian Law
On Thursday 29th July the president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, signed into law a draconian measure that effectively gives the secret services the right to warn anyone against engaging in political activity, with a potential jail sentence for ignoring the caution.
18th June 2010
Kyrgyzstan in Perilous Situation
The continuing chaos in Kyrgyzstan threatens to engulf the whole country in turmoil, with conflicting expectations of EU-NATO involvement or Russian intervention.
The current, illegitimate, leader of the country, Rosa Otunbayeva, says that the death toll to date from the violence in the central Asian country could be as high as 2000 people.
25th May 2010
Thailand Divided After Violent Crackdown
After two months of protests were put to an end by a violent crackdown by the Thai army, signs have been emerging that the deep divisions that prompted the unrest are becoming more, not less, serious.
14th May 2010
Thailand Moves Away From Democracy As Crackdown Starts
After the high hopes of Abhisit Vejjajiva’s proposed “road map to reconciliation”, the Prime Minister has sent in troops to break the continuing protests of the Redshirt demonstrators.
28th April 2010
Thailand Troubles Continue After a Month of Protests
For the past month Thailand has been a country in an escalating crisis.
Over the weekend the Red Shirts protesters had dug in at the commercial centre of Bangkok, and the government was coming under increasing pressure to crackdown on the protest movement.
8th March 2010
Russia No Longer Democratic, says the Founder of Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Communist Party leader and the architect of the opening up of the Russian political process, says that democracy in Russia is simply "decoration with no substance".
30th March 2010
China Increases Spending On Internal Security as Regime Digs In
China announces that its spending on internal security will reach record levels this year as the Communist Party fears growing unrest and dissident movements.
19th February 2010
Japan Puts Anti-Whaling Activists on Trial for Theft
Two Greenpeace activists in Japan could face up to 10 years in prison.
This week the trial of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki began, with the two activists on charge of theft and trespass after entering a warehouse and taking a consignment of whale-meat that they insist had been stolen and was destined for the black market.
