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On the eve of the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, independent news channel New Tang Dynasty (NTD) asks for its signal to be resumed in China, after it was interrupted on 16 June by the European satellite company
The Olympic games in Beijing kick off on the eighth day of the eight month of 2008. They are the symbol of a China which is moving, although it doesn’t know exactly where to. A glance at sporting traditions and human rights as the sports world descends on the far east
He stood on the barricades of Paris and Prague in 1968 and later produced the Charter 77 civic initiative. The man who once smoked cigarettes in prison with former president Václav Havel looks back over his sixty-six years, but also to Europe and the future
After a tropical cyclone on 4 May, Burma faces a major humanitarian crisis. The military junta in power will not succumb to international pressure to allow emergency assistance to enter the country. What can Europe do?
The Czech capital is banishing a young Brit’s project from the city centre after the first Speaker’s Corner in Europe outside of the UK became a hotspot for extremists
A huge victory for some, enormous disappointment for others. For the first ever time, the Olympic torch has been extinguished under mass pressure, as Europe makes itself heard
As the tension between the Tibetan monks versus Chinese control escalates, we hear a 25-year-old Swiss tourist's version of events after a week in the capital, Lhasa
The British citizen of Jamaican origin, has been a paraplegic ever since he was attacked by a band of neo-Nazis. In 2007, he made headline news in Germany and is still fighting to be able to decide the date of his death
162 protestors have came to a provisional deal with the government - but they haven't eaten for 50 days
The Strasbourg-based organisation defends human rights in Europe and needs to combat its dwindling visibility
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