John Sparks

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.

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.

Om Suthamtewakul, a 30-year-old Thai woman, tells Asia Correspondent John Sparks about her experiences in Thailand with the Washington shooter Aaron Alexis.

Thailand’s media is taking up the search for answers following an exclusive Channel 4 News report on the trafficking of Burmese refugees.

The showcase community of an outcast regime: Channel 4 News glimpses life in the opulence and eerie quiet of North Korea’s capital Pyongyang.

As Thailand struggles with an influx of Rohingya Muslims from Burma, John Sparks visits a camp where conditions are desperately over-crowded, with barely room to sit.

Aung San Suu Kyi has remained silent on the plight of Burma’s Rohingya Muslims. With her criticism of “discrimination”, is she now changing her tune?

Malaysians vote in record numbers in an election that could weaken or even end the rule of the world’s longest-ruling coalition. Asia Correspondent John Sparks gives his view.

As frustrations between western climbers and Sherpas on Mount Everest boil over, one climber gives his account of what happened to John Sparks.

John Sparks speaks with North Korean defectors and activists to get an understanding of the secretive regime and how technology is helping the outside world to seep across the border.

Talk of all-consuming hell-fire and nuclear war sounds grim. But North Korea’s violent sabre-rattling must be viewed in context.

When Burma elected its first democratic president, it was the dawn of a new era. But the country is in a downward spiral of ethnic violence, reports Asia Correspondent John Sparks.

The Pope isn’t the only one with more than a billion people on his mind. Xi Jinping was officially endorsed as Chinese president today, but what kind of leader will he be?

How bad is China’s air pollution? Asia Correspondent John Sparks meets residents of an apartment block in China’s most polluted city, who have found their homes enveloped in black smoke.