Disagreements on how to tackle climate change are coming to the fore as a UN conference on climate change enters its second week in Bali.Some developing countries however must choose economic growth over the cost to the environment. Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Hanoi on the dilemma facing developing nations like Vietnam.
Tony Birtley takes a look at Burmese refugees who have fled the tyranny but are prevented from peaceful demonstrations in Singapore, and call for ASEAN countries, especially Singapore, to be more transparent in their trade and financial dealings with Myanmar.
Tony Birtley looks at the deadly suicide bombers in Sri Lanka, speaks to one who was intercepted before carrying out her mission, talks with the proud mother of a suicide bomber who succeeded and contrasts this with the singhalese woman who’s daughter and granddaughter were killed by a Tigers bomb. Three women, three viewpoints, three degrees of suffering.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley went to Ho Chi Minh City to meet some of the more than half a million orphans whose adoptions are being made more difficult by new laws designed to protect them.
Coal fuel’s China’s booming economy, but the country’s coal mining industry has the worst safety record in the world.Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reports from Sunjiawan, where local people have paid a high price to keep China’s coal power stations burning.