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 Friday, 16 May 2008 |
Asia  Stories the vast continent of Asia
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Written by Roderick Eime
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Saturday, 30 September 2006 |
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The vibrant and bustling seaport of Hong Kong has enjoyed a prominent part in the grand opera of Asia. Roderick Eime travelled to Hong Kong for a whirlwind tour of the sights, sounds and smells of the former British colony and discovered a bright and brassy city with a long and colourful history
The dramatic events of the mid-19th Century created Hong Kong from a string of minor fishing villages on the island that now bears its name. The British, on an expansionist roll, obtained Hong Kong Island in 1841 and then, in 1860, Kowloon on the adjacent mainland, after giving the Chinese forces of the Qing Dynasty a sound hiding in the two Opium Wars.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 April 2007 )
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Written by Paul Raffaele - Smithsonian
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Monday, 28 August 2006 |
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Sleeping with Cannibals
Intrepid Smithsonian reporter gets up close and personal with New Guinea natives who say they still eat their fellow tribesmen.
By Paul Raffaele - Photographs by Paul Raffaele |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 28 August 2006 )
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Written by Roderick Eime
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
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Mao and Then.
Many pasts catching up with China.
Few countries have a history to match China, and few are changing as fast. Roderick Eime tramps Beijing from the Great Wall to Tiananmen Square and finds the past overlaid by an exciting, dynamic future.
"You are walking ..puff.. on the world's longest .. puff, puff...cemetery," said Miranda, our guide, as we heaved and wheezed up the near vertical inclines of China's Great Wall. She was talking about the horrendous toll of slave workers who perished during the building of the world's longest man-made structure that snakes across the Chinese landscape and, just at this moment, seemed more like a mountain than anything built by hand. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 02 June 2007 )
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Written by Marika White
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Thursday, 17 August 2006 |
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RIDING THE RAILS IN TAIWAN
Even though Taiwan
is a small mountainous island nation ringed only by a narrow coastal
strip it offers a number of world-class rail journeys. From
humble beginnings when the first tracks were laid for goods trains some
100 years ago the dynamic Asian country has developed a modern rail
network that today extends for some 4500 km.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 August 2006 )
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Written by UNESCO
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
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World Heritage - July-August 2006
Pandas roam free in China
© Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China
Zhang Hemin, director of the Wolong nature reserve, a
major part of the Giant Panda Sanctuaries in Sichuan. The sanctuaries,
one of the few places in the world where giant pandas still live in the
wild, has just been inscribed on the World Heritage List. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 April 2007 )
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