• The Utopia: Chinese education minister sacked for corruption China's legislature has removed education minister Zhou Ji amid a corruption scandal that has hit the Wuhan University and widespread dissatisfaction over the educational system, Zhou’s...
• Maturity: Japan's urban youth swaps fashion for farming Young Japanese are on a mission to make farming cool again and cut Japan's frightening food deficit in the processIn a high-tech country that grew rich selling cars and electronics, young farmers are...
• Empress of Japan speaks against nuclear weapons Empress Michiko of Japan has called for “a world free of nuclear weapons” and praised President Obama’s moves towards nuclear disarmament. In a written statement to mark her 75th...
• Admiration: China builds 'Pentagon' shopping centre in Shanghai A £150 million replica of the Pentagon is being built in China to house a Shanghai shopping centre
The Shanghai Pentagonal Mart is bigger than the Virginia headquarters of the US defence...
• Chinese Democracy: China sentences six to death over Uighur riots in Xinjiang Six people have been sentenced to death by a Chinese court in the far-western province of Xinjiang for their role in an outburst of ethnic rioting which left nearly dead 200 and 1,700 wounded last...
• Ex-Japanese finance minister suicide unlikely - police (RIA Novosti) - The suicide or killing of former Japanese finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa, found dead in his home on Sunday, is unlikely, police said after an autopsy.
Nakagawa, 56, was forced to...
• Afghan girl, six, killed as RAF drops box of leaflets A six-year-old Afghan girl died after a box of leaflets dropped by the RAF landed on her.
Leaflet drops are regularly made by Western forces to provide information and warnings to locals, as well...
• Thai army to enforce royal censorship laws. King of Thailand is U.S. born. Thailand’s armed forces have been urged to listen out for insults to the monarchy and report any 'disinformation' to authorities
This would involve the country’s lèse...
• Afghanistan: US troops raid Swedish hospital? (WW4Report) -- The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan Sept. 7 accused troops from the US Army's 10th Mountain Division of storming through the charity's hospital in central Wardak province, breaking...
• Chinese students take to the hills City-dweller Wang Weiwei and his friends are the main subject of gossip in Xianying, a small village of around 8,000 inhabitants located in Beijing Municipality. Wang's group, with its trendy and...
• NATO air raid kills '100 people' in Afghanistan (Press TV) -- More than one hundred people, mostly civilian, have reportedly been killed and scores others injured after US-led warplanes targeted fuel tankers in an area of northern Afghanistan. The...
• China saves 3 mln tons of oil with ban on free plastic bags (RIA Novosti) - China has saved some 3 million metric tons of oil in the year since a ban was imposed on supermarkets giving customers free plastic bags, China's Global Times reported on...
• China admits organs removed from prisoners for transplants China has admitted that two-thirds of all organs used in transplants in the country are taken from executed prisoners.
Facing a growing demand for transplants, the Beijing government finally...
• 'Tens of' Afghan polling centers fail to open (Press TV) -- Election authorities claim turnout in Afghanistan's elections is 'very good' despite reports saying militants have prevented tens of polling centers from opening. Some 95 percent of...
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