World Affairs: Asia
Lead Feature
Burma’s referendum of the absurd
Despite the terrible cyclone death toll, Burma's military junta is pushing ahead with its spurious constitutional referendum
In asia
Enter the dragon
- By Flora Bagenal
- 08 May
Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and sculptor Antony Gormley were drawn to the legendary Shaolin monastery. The reality they uncovered was not what they'd expected
There are other Tibets
- By Lindsey Hilsum
- 01 May
In Xinjiang, as in Tibet, the government tries to bend unwilling subjects to its will, rather than accommodate the disparate cultures and beliefs
Forgotten Burma
- By Rachel Aspden
- 01 May
Burma is back in the news in the wake of the terrible cyclone. Ahead of this tragedy Rachel Aspden visited the forgotten Burmese resistance. Here is her report.
Sex 'n' drugs 'n' folderol
- By Toby Lichtig
- 01 May
Sea of Poppies
Amitav GhoshJohn Murray, 471pp, £18.99
Feature
Power to the people
South Korea has just held its first jury trial,Japan is planning to reinstate juries next year, Russia is experimenting and even China is toying with the idea. And in Britain?
More in asia
Understanding the Taliban
- By Stephen Grey
- 24 April 2008
Chinese whispers
- By Hunter Davies
- 24 April 2008
The new Terminal Three
- By Lindsey Hilsum
- 17 April 2008
Alison Jackson
- 17 April 2008
A vote for the city
- By Paul Rodgers
- 17 April 2008
Terror in the east
- By Isabel Hilton
- 17 April 2008
The needle in the sea
- By Simon Worrall
- 10 April 2008
