2008: The Year In Pictures
2008-12-29
The year 2008 brought major events throughout Asia. Unusually heavy snowstorms wreaked havoc in China as millions of people tried to travel home for Lunar New Year.
Cyclone Nargis then devastated Burma, a major earthquake rocked Sichuan province in China, and flooding in Vietnam and Cambodia caused record damage. Beijing played host to the Olympic Games, but unrest in Tibet turned violent and tensions remained high in both Tibet and Xinjiang at the end of the year.
Get Multimedia updates
Subscribe here to get fast updates, via rss, on our production in video, slideshows and interactive graphics as soon as they are published.
What’s rss?
Social Media
Comments
You can add a comment by filling out the form below. Plain text formatting. Please note that comments must be approved by a moderator and will not appear on this page in real time. Please check back soon to see if your comment has been posted.
View all comments.