John Sparks

Explosions in the Thai capital injure 28 and shake Bangkok’s reputation as an open, easy-going city. Asia Correspondent John Sparks blogs about changes in Thailand.

Asia Correspondent John Sparks finds himself in a dual with a flamboyant opposition leader in front of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters.

John Sparks meets some of the growing population of UK pensioners who have headed to Thailand’s seedy seaside resort Pattaya to ‘get busy living’.

Kim Jong-un’s execution of a family member supports claims that factionalism and rivalries are festering at the very top of North Korea’s regime.

Temporarily homeless and dismissed by opponents as a “dim-witted puppet”, Yingluck Shinawatra seems determined to hold on to power in Thailand.

The international community has called on the secretive state to close its gulags, but now it seems they are expanding them.

Police use rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas on anti-government protesters in Thailand, as a previously peaceful protest turns ugly. Asia Correspondent John Sparks was there.

Traffic is at a standstill, buildings occupied and an arrest warrant has been issued for the protest leader. But no-one seems in any hurry to detain him, writes John Sparks in Bangkok.

The death toll from the typhoon has topped 3,600 and the figure is expected to rise. C4 News met one grandmother who fears the worst as she hunts for her missing British family.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa tells Channel 4 News he is “not concerned” by allegations of war crimes – but Jonathan Miller says people in Sri Lanka could be at risk after speaking to the programme.

People are beginning to question the judgement of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s icon of democracy, and an interview she gave about the Rohingya will add to those doubts.

The aggressive tactics of the New South Wales fire department seemed to have contained the blazes in the Blue Mountains.

Lena Hendry is charged with violating Malaysia’s laws after showing an award-winning Channel 4 documentary about Sri Lanka at a film night in Kuala Lumpur.

From the outside, Kim Jong-un appears to have cemented his control – but tales from defectors suggest there is more dissent and revolt in North Korea than meets the eye.

Defectors’ tales of food shortages and fear expose the official story of life in North Korea – handed out to the few journalists allowed to enter the country – as a carefully constructed lie.