Despite a frightening list of problems there is confidence that Rio will be ready for the Olympic Games – but long-term benefits are in doubt.
The beleagured Workers’ Party believes people will tire quickly of the opposition leaders.
“The first step that should be taken in pregnancies of girls under 13 should be an abortion,” say activists.
The 2014 World Cup has seen unprecedented levels of outrage and debate over poverty, Fifa, commercialism … and occasionally football.
The last episode of Avenida Brasil was a melodrama
A petro-giant is sweet-talking Amazonian villagers blessed with land that has resources worth billions. Jonathan Watts reports.
Only one thing unites those at the People’s Summit — unhappiness over the status quo, writes Jonathan Watts.
A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.
China making huge strides in using green energy but coal consumption continues to increase.
A haze expert has warned that despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution in urban China, dangerous smog will persist for decades.
Chinese villagers have called on their government to intervene in a bloody land dispute that has claimed at least one life so far.
Beijing fears a policy of encirclement as US President Barack Obama announces plans to begin stationing 2 500 troops in northern Australia.
345 000 people are being relocated in a desperate bid to ease Beijing’s drought crisis by transfusing water from the Yangtze basin
An estimated 10 000 people have died in Ishinomaki. <b>Jonathan Watts</b> finds a desperate effort to feed the living as the bodies pile up.
China is to impose an environmental tax on heavy polluters under an ambitious clean-up strategy being finalised in Beijing.
No TV. No internet. No air conditioning. Traffic lights off. Hospitals deprived of electricity.
For the first time the government in Beijing has put a hefty value on its forest ecosystems.
With just days to go before the Copenhagen climate talks, the world waits for China to set its carbon target.
South Korea’s secretary for future vision is considering how many of his people it takes to change a million lightbulbs. No joke.
When Sun Jun ignited a cacophony of fireworks recently, he was letting off steam as much as ushering in the Year of the Rat in the Chinese lunar calendar. For the Beijing taxi…
