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BEIJING: Chinese hackers have gotten pretty good the past few years at disrupting things. I'm generally not in favor of encouraging hacker mayhem, but this case it a bit different. Let's see if they can shut down Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. And if...

It's useful to compare the way China handled its national disaster with the way the Burmese handled the cyclone, and the way our Republican administration handled Katrina.

The Chinese premier immediately sent 50,000 troops with every conceivable type of disaster relief equipment to the affected area, and headed them up...

Burma is making China look like a world leader on human rights. The troops in China are pitching in to help Chinese earthquake victims, while in Burma the troops have blocked the way to relief from the Nargis cyclone. Now, 11 days since the cyclone, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband...

When the tsunami hit parts of Asia and Africa in December 2004, President George W. Bush asked his predecessors, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, to travel to the stricken region and bring relief and hope to the victims.

The tsunami, a giant tidal wave in the Indian Ocean,...

The casualty counts from the earthquake in China and cyclone in Myanmar are staggering. What's interesting, however, is that whenever a natural disaster strikes, the number of casualties first reported is always deceptively low but creeps upward as more information is made available. Interestingly, the opposite tends to be the...

Have you ever wondered what became of your VHS player? How about that old computer with the black and green monitor, or your first cell phone that was the size of a loaf of bread?

We laugh at the memory of this tragically out-of-date technology, but for the developing world,...

Dr. Geoff D. Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change and Security Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Dabelko discusses water, conflict and peacemaking in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Over at Circle of Blue WaterNews, we're reporting today on another ingredient to consider in the context of the China-Tibet conflict. Keith Schneider and C.T. Pope write that the Tibetan Plateau's vast reserves of glacial freshwater, which supply Asia's most populous regions, are both at risk and are emerging...