Growing tensions between China and the Philippines. Activists in Yemen launch an online campaign against US Drone attacks. And web users pay tribute to Mexican author Carlos Fuentes who died on Tuesday.
The case of blind dissident Chen Guangcheng once again throws light on Beijing's human rights record. We have a special report from China on the issue of illegal detention. Meanwhile, the Philippines say they won't be bullied by Beijing as tension rises over a natural-gas rich rocky outcrop. Finally, we head to Japan, a nation traumatised by the Fukushima disaster, and ask what kind of future awaits the country's nuclear industry.
Like many young, poor Filipinos, Ted had never used a computer before. Now he is taking a computing course at the university to fulfil his dream of working for a major technology company. A dream within reach, thanks to the training he received from a French charity. France 24 followed the organisation giving the poorest citizens a chance to contribute to their country’s development.
This show is made up entirely of amateur images. We've seen time and time again how images captured by ordinary citizens then uploaded onto the Web can change history, or at least shift the balance of power. This week, we take a look back at some of those moments.
Former president Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines pleaded not guilty to election-rigging in a Manila court on Thursday. President Benigno Aquino has accused Arroyo of conspiring to rig a 2007 vote as well as other acts of corruption.
Rescue teams continued the search Friday for an estimated 150 missing people after a pre-dawn landslide on Thursday buried a remote community on Mindanao island in the southern Philippines, killing at least 25 people.
In North Korea, Kim Jong-Un is poised to take over power following his father's death. Also, a population in shock deals with the gruesome consequences of the floods in the Philippines. And finally, we take a look back at 2011 across Asia.
The Philippine government declared a national disaster Tuesday and shipped hundreds of coffins to the flood-stricken south of the country as the death toll neared 1,000 and was expected to rise further as rescuers continued to discover bodies.
As authorities struggled to deliver aid to communities devastated by last week’s flash floods in the southern Philippines, officials on Monday said the death toll had risen to 927.
The death toll from devastating flash floods in the southern Philippines climbed to more than 650 on Sunday as rescuers continued to search for around 800 people still missing after entire villages had been swept away overnight on Friday.
