Jonathan Watts
NINE of the Chilean miners who were trapped underground for more than two months in 2010 have sued their lawyers for...
Published 05 Nov, 2015 06:47am
IN an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Nicolas Maduro, elected last year after the death of Hugo Chavez, said...
Published 10 Apr, 2014 07:55am
RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil): Football supporters fleeing rubber bullets, roads into stadiums blocked by angry crowds,...
Published 23 Jun, 2013 09:41am
HUGO Chavez, one of the most outspoken South American leaders of the past century, was never going to be an easy act to follow. But Sunday’s narrow and contested vote has just made it even tougher for his newly elected successor, Nicolas Maduro
Published 17 Apr, 2013 02:05am
ONE of the world’s most spectacular and stomach-churning aircraft descents will be consigned to history next week when Quito closes an airport wedged between volcanoes and tower blocks high in the windswept Andes.
Published 08 Feb, 2013 09:01pm
THE misty forests of Miguel Pereira, just two hours drive from Rio’s Copacabana beaches, show the scars of development.
Published 13 Jun, 2012 09:01pm
RICH countries have been slow to launch the “fast start” climate funds promised at Copenhagen, the world`s least...
Published 09 Oct, 2010 12:00am
BEIJING China is to build a record number of cinemas this year in a burst of movie infrastructure development that ...
Published 15 Sep, 2010 12:00am
MADUO Like generations of Tibetan nomads before him, Phuntsok Dorje makes a living raising yaks and other livestock...
Published 04 Sep, 2010 12:00am
BEIJING A Chinese farmer who used homemade rockets to fight off developers was celebrated in the state media on...
Published 11 Jul, 2010 12:00am
BEIJING Chinese authorities have dispatched a flotilla of more than 60 ships to head off a massive tide of algae ...
Published 09 Jul, 2010 12:00am
BEIJING Visitors to Beijing zoo are warned not to feed the animals, but they are encouraged to eat them at a...
Published 24 May, 2010 12:00am
SINGAPORE, which prides itself on being one of the most environmentally friendly nations in Asia, is expanding its...
Published 13 May, 2010 12:00am
HAINAN (China) A game similar to golf was played in China more than 500 years before the sport in its modern form ...
Published 25 Apr, 2010 12:00am
THE Copenhagen conference was destroyed from the start by the leak of the `Danish draft` negotiating text to The...
Published 14 Apr, 2010 12:00am
DAMOGUZHEN (Yunnan) There is not a drop of water in sight. The baked and fissured earth resembles an ancient desert....
Published 08 Apr, 2010 12:00am
THE biggest turn-off in human history will start at 8.30pm today in Chatham, a tiny South Pacific island with only ...
Published 28 Mar, 2010 12:00am
FARMERS` fields are a far bigger source of water contamination in China than factory effluent, according to findings...
Published 11 Feb, 2010 12:00am
CHINESE legal experts are proposing a ban on eating dogs and cats in a contentious move to end a culinary tradition...
Published 28 Jan, 2010 12:00am
LONDON Over the past 10 years, the global balance of power tipped towards the east. China and India - which together...
Published 19 Oct, 2009 12:00am
