China

A radical take on improving peoples physical and environmental security..…

It’s difficult to know for sure how many political prisoners there currently are in China, but it’s safe to say that there are thousands of them.…

‘It’s tooconfusing for me,’ I heard a student confessing outside Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre. To theright was a group of Tibetan exiles with their brightly coloured flags, here togreet the Dalai Lama on the Oxford leg of his UK tour.…

Swinging open Chinas cell doors to hear whos inside, and why...Civilunrest is rising in China, particularly in rural areas where people areincreasingly disgruntled because of corrupt or inefficient officials.In a push upwards by the people, more and more protesters are claimingfreedom of speech and demanding a right to be heard…

This is a press release from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), dated 22 April 2008…

It couldn’thave been more symbolic…

This Sunday – 6 April – the official Olympic torch rally comes to London…

The global impact of using food supplies to fuel cars...As world leaders prepare to fly into Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, for the next round of United Nations climate change talks, were wondering - realistically - what these talks are going to achieve…

Suddenly, for the first time in many years, there's hope. As tension and protests mount in Tibet- and within Tibetan communities outside the country - there is a sense that atlast something is shifting, however fraught with perils that change may be. …

Fresh from this year's International Women's Day celebrations, this week the Radio New Internationalist team pay tribute to the women of the world and the challenges that confront them as a result of marriage…