Asia
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Authorities have blamed adulterated antibiotics and said second camp was an unauthorised money-making racket
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Elif Shafak’s open letter to the journalist Gao Yu celebrates the courageous writings for which she has been jailed in China, but which ‘echo far and wide’
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Announcement on capping carbon emissions gets largely positive coverage in national media
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Sterilisation camps for women seen as cheaper option than contraceptives in remote villages, while incentives for surgery condemned as coercion by legal experts
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Oil prices have fallen 30% since June, due to slow growth in emerging nations and concerns over Japan and eurozone
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Despite vows of a move towards more democratic governance, Burma struggles to emerge from 50 years of military rule
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Liberal Democrat official hints at December poll before PM Shinzo Abe presses ahead with unpopular tax rise
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Around a million Uzbeks are forced to help harvest the country’s ‘white gold’ every year. Now, students have tentatively begun to speak out against it. EurasiaNet.org reports
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Comments by special rapporteur in North Korea are strongest yet about supreme leader’s responsibility for abuses
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Surgeon RK Gupta, who operated on 83 women in less than three hours, blames administration for not controlling numbers
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Two years after being kicked out of a similar facility, the Libertines frontman is hoping once more to quit heroin and ‘help other struggling addicts’
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Police arrest doctor who performed more than 80 operations as news emerges that surgeries went on despite mounting toll
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Editorial: It doesn’t go far enough, but it unblocks the road to a deal in Paris next year
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Originally published in the Guardian on 13 November 1990: Many people lined Tokyo’s streets hoping to catch a glimpse of invited guests like Princess Diana
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‘I’m focusing not on what might happen in 16 years’ time,’ says PM as pressure mounts to match targets set by China and US
The US-China climate deal is a model for world diplomacy: too small to fail