Category Archives: Asia

Lobby the UN for Aung San Suu Kyi

Posted on 14 May 2009 by Robert

The Burma Campaign have a handy form that allows you to quickly lobby the UN Secretary General, asking him to send an envoy. Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Human Rights | 1 Comment

Mightier than the Sword

Posted on 23 February 2009 by Robert

Today I start a new job, as Campaigns Manager at English PEN, promoting literature and human rights worldwide.  A dream job for a blogger, I reckon. As before, consider this full disclosure to the bloggers’ register of interests, and sufficient … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Diary, Human Rights, Literature | 1 Comment

The Himalayan Challenge

Posted on 4 December 2008 by Andrew

Browsing a hard-drive from a long decommissioned family computer, I found this report of a Himalayan trek that my Dad wrote in 1999. He did the walk in aid of the Frimley MacMillan Nurse Appeal. Continue reading →

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Coverage 2.0

Posted on 29 November 2008 by Robert

In a mirror of the Election Twitter, which captured the global exhilaration of the Obama victory, this Mumbai twitter conveys something of the confusion caused by these attacks. Continue reading →

Posted in Globalisation, India, Internet Philosophy, Media, Terrorism, Visual | Leave a comment

Sowing Division, Reaping Unity

Posted on 27 November 2008 by Robert

Back in 2006, after the Malegon bombings, I was struck by the defiant attitude of the locals who refused to divide themselves along religious lines, as the terrorists obviously intended. Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Terrorism | 1 Comment

India’s Olympic Shame

Posted on 21 August 2008 by Robert

Here’s an interesting alternative medal table (h/t KiwiClaire). It ranks the countries not by how many Beijing Olympic medals they have won, but by their ratio of medals to population, and to GDP. Britain does not do quite as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Sport | 3 Comments

Four billion!?

Posted on 9 August 2008 by Robert

Surely these media claims that four billion people watched the ceremony is stinking hyperbole Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Cultures, China, Sport | 2 Comments

‘Free Tibet’ flags made in China

Posted on 28 April 2008 by Robert

Loving it: The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning. But then some of them saw … Continue reading →

Posted in China, Human Rights, Sport, Tibet | 2 Comments

Ask the Dalai Lama

Posted on 17 April 2008 by Robert

Adrian Hamilton has a good idea. Continue reading →

Posted in China, Sport | 2 Comments

The World’s Regulator

Posted on 3 January 2008 by Robert

Britain: the World’s Independent Regulator! It has nice ring to it, don’t you think? Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Asia | 3 Comments