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Government continues tight control to prevent "unanticipated events" 
| 31/05/2004
| CHINA

The government refuses to discuss or explain
| 28/05/2004
| HONG KONG - CHINA

| 27/05/2004
| CHINA

While there is still uncertainty surrounding a meeting with Bishop Zen, a monk urges Buddhist faithful not to get involved in politics.
| 25/05/2004
| HONG KONG – CHINA
by Maurizio d'Orlando
This year Chinese energy demand has grown 41%. In 2004 China's need for oil will be equal to half of Iraqi crude exports.
| 24/05/2004
| ASIA - EDITORIAL

Bishop Joseph Zen writes a letter to Hong Kong's Parliament
| 22/05/2004
| HONG KONG - CHINA

More couples can now have a second child to help rejuvenate Shanghai's aging population.
| 20/05/2004
| China

| 17/05/2004
| china - vatican

Medical authorities to answer for negligence

| 12/05/2004
| CHINA
by Maurizio d'Orlando
Non-representative economic figures, difficulties in obtaining enough energy supplies and, above all, the need to maintain a repressive system are the stumbling blocks to a less than rosy future for the Asian giant.  
| 07/05/2004
| China - Europe
by Xiao Xi
Wen Jiabao's European trip reveals a China that has become a major political player in the world. At the same time it reveals a Europe lacking in imagination and cultural-religious identity. AsiaNews offers the opinion of a China expert to promote discussion about this Far Eastern giant, even if the article's opinions are not completely shared by our press agency. 
| 07/05/2004
| China - Europe
Editor's choices
 
by Gianni Criveller
The College of Cardinals Francis created reflects the world more than the Catholic Church, or rather, it reflects her missionary vocation. Numbers count far less than bearing evangelical witness, which Christians are expected to live in the community ...
| 27/04/2025
| EDITORIAL
 
by Sumon Corraya
The meeting in 2017 in Bangladesh with a delegation of one million exiles from Myanmar was one of the most touching moments in the pontiff's trip. He often remembered that embrace in the following years. “Pope Francis was a beacon of hope for ...
| 26/04/2025
| BANGLADESH - VATICAN
 
A source talked to AsiaNews about how Chinese Catholics are coping with Francis’s death. Remarks and pictures abound on local social media. “Amid the sorrow and mourning, the joy of announcing love prevailed,” as “a spontaneous ...
| 24/04/2025
| RED LANTERNS
 
The 12 years of Francis’s pontificate were marked by 13 trips in Asia, from the first visit to South Korea to the long journey last September to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Singapore. During this time, his message of peace and ...
| 23/04/2025
| VATICAN – ASIA
 
by sr. Mary Joseph *
From Calcutta, the superior of Mother Teresa's sisters remembers Pope Francis. ‘He made the Church refocus its attention on the marginalised’. Bergoglio wanted the Missionaries of Charity to open a new home in Bajo Flores, a slum ...
| 23/04/2025
| INDIA - VATICAN
 
by Gianni Criveller
Proclaiming the Gospel was his top priority: he reminded us that mission is about joy, that its territories are not defined by geography or people's religious affiliation. Through his life and teaching, he taught us that Jesus' missionaries ...
| 22/04/2025
| EDITORIAL
 
by Card Anthony Poola*
One of the great signs of the pontificate that ended this morning with the death of Pope Francis is his care for the peripheries of the world. The archbishop of Hyderabad, the first Dalit called to join the College of Cardinals in 2022, pays tribute ...
| 21/04/2025
| VATICAN - INDIA
 
by Gianni Criveller
From Myanmar to the Middle East, countless women, children and men in Asia, victims of pain and injustice, weep like Mary Magdalene who lost her Lord and friend. But with her, they believe that the Risen One changes the course of history and allows ...
| 19/04/2025
| EDITORIAL
“L’Asia: ecco il nostro comune compito per il terzo millennio!” - Giovanni Paolo II, da “Alzatevi, andiamo”