Violent ethnic clashes between the indigenous Uighur and Han Chinese populations rocked the north-western Chinese city of Urumqi in July 2009. At least 197 people were killed and 1,721 injured in what one Chinese official called the 'deadliest riot since...
The war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001 and has already lasted longer than both World Wars. With the security situation remaining critical and the country's fledgling democracy tarnished by corruption, future prospects look far from rosy. Adam...
Wounded soldiers lie prone on the battlefield, but they are not scattered across it as one might expect. They are in a neat line, each facing in the same direction and spaced out at regular intervals. Their injuries follow a pattern too. The first ...
The 7th of November 2010 saw the first 'democratic' election in Burma since 1990. Many had hoped that this would be an historic opportunity for the long suffering Burmese people to put an end to the junta's military dictatorship and herald a new era ...
On November 13th 2010, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in Rangoon. Suu Kyi, whose name translates as 'A Bright Collection of Strange Victories', had spent almost 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest. ...
On the 7th of June 2010, the day Afghanistan overtook Vietnam to become the longest war in US history, ten NATO soldiers including seven Americans were killed. One of those was 21-year-old US Army Soldier Brendan Neenan. Pilots and medics from ...
North Korea is the world's last and only hereditary communist dictatorships and has been in the news spotlight for all the wrong reasons over the past decades. It is believed to have torpedoed a South Korean naval vessel in March 2010, killing 46 ...
They may not conform to the western stereotype of a provocative girl band but Myanmar's first all girl pop act, the Me N Ma Girls are certainly pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in deeply religious and conservative Burmese society. The ...
Ordos City, which derives its name from the Mongolian word for 'palaces', is a gleaming, extravagant urban development on the dusty plains of Inner Mongolia some 570 km from Beijing. It is the very epitome of the image China is trying to project to ...
The winds of change have swept through Burma in the past year as President Thein Sein and his government have introduced reforms that have transformed the mood of the country and caused a geopolitical shift in the region and beyond. The ...
The conflict in Syria continues to drag on and the battle for Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital and second city, has so far failed to create the tipping point that the rebels had hoped would be a precursor to their assault on Damascus. The Assad ...
Burma's Buddhist monks have long stood for non violent resistance to the country's now retired military junta and were at the forefront of a number of protest movements that chipped away at the regime's legitimacy. Since the easing of stringent ...
In a year of extreme weather, the Typhoon that hit the east coast of the Philippines on 7 November 2013 still surprised meteorologists with its sheer ferocity and speed. Typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda as it was known in the Philippines, was the strongest...
The state of Jharkhand is home to one of the largest Adivasi (tribal) populations in India. It is also the location of an estimated 40% of the country's deposits of coal, iron ore, uranium and other minerals considered essential for India's industrial ...
Rajasthan, one of the poorest and least developed states in India, has the second lowest literacy rate for women in the country, at 44%, and a deeply entrenched caste system. But with the help of non-governmental organisations, women are leading a rural ...
Berlin has stood at the vortex of world history several times in the past century, from the rise and fall of Nazism to the post-war division of Europe into East and West, to the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Communism. November 9, 1989 would ...