Hong Kong
Hong Kong: LSD splits
Radical political force dealt a serious blow • Pro-Beijing camp jubilant
Asia
Pakistan
Pakistan: Can Pakistan become a theocratic state?
Religion, politics and the working class
China
China: Another suicide at Foxconn
Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and management – end the scourge of ‘blood factories’
Pakistan
Pakistan: Railway workers on the move
20,000 jobs under threat – protesting workers forced the authorities to retreat
Pakistan
Pakistan: Protesting port workers occupied the Karachi port
Protesting port workers of Port Qasim in Karachi walked out and effectively took over the port on 17th of January.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: EU – stop boosting Nazarbayev’s dictatorship
Protest against ’referendum’ on suspending presidential elections until 2020
China
China: Hit by new toxic milk scare
Chinese authorities have made 96 detentions of people suspected of producing and selling melamine-tainted dairy products
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Regime plans to cancel 2012 presidential elections
Parliament rubberstamps ‘referendum’ to postpone election until 2020
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: Clamp down on opposition press continues
‘Voice of the Republic’ newspaper staff harassed and arrested
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan: New Year fireworks outside cell of Esenbek Ukteshbayev
A thousand protests made worldwide against jailing of trade union and social activist