Full Coverage: Asia and the Pacific
February 2009
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28.02.2009
The annual Tongues on Fire Asian Film Festival is back, 6-15 March, London.
more...Image: Heaven on Earth gets its UK premiere at the Tongues on Fire Asian film festival
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28.02.2009
Many Sri Lankans are trapped by fighting between government and secessionist guerrillas, some with untreated infected wounds, with no access to information and no chance to look for lost family members, says an international medical charity.+ OneWorld Guide to Sri Lanka
more...From: Médecins sans frontières Related topics/regions: [Sri Lanka] |
27.02.2009
The charity Palestinians Relief and Development Fund did not take sufficiently rigorous steps to investigate allegations that some of their partner organisations might be promoting terrorism, the Charity Commission has ruled.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Palestine] |
25.02.2009
As India prepares to elect a new government, the first 100 "people’s manifestos" have been published in a groundbreaking country-wide initiative by civil society groups.
more...From: OneWorld South Asia Related topics/regions: [India] |
24.02.2009
After 40 years of unregulated cyanide and dynamite fishing thousands of people in the western Philippines are in danger of losing their livelihoods.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Philippines] |
24.02.2009
Indian police guard woman after video of her undressing appears on internet says the newspaper headline. It's a case of life following art, says reviewer Daniel Nelson.
more...From: OneWorld UK Related topics/regions: [India] [United Kingdom] [Information & media] Image: Free Outgoing
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23.02.2009
Unregulated trade — at 10 to 100 times legal levels — has caused Southeast Asian Box Turtles almost to vanish from parts of Indonesia where they were once common, according to a new report.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Indonesia] |
22.02.2009
With Afghanistan set to be a key focus of British, European and US foreign policy for many years, the Tricycle Theatre is staging a festival of plays, exhibitions, films and discussions on the country.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Afghanistan] |
22.02.2009
Scary analysis of the threat to the people of Bhutan, one of the great injustices of climate change. UNDP Bhutan (pdf file)
more...Related topics/regions: [Bhutan] [Climate change] |
21.02.2009
Food price rises could push up the number of hungry and food insecure people in South East Asia to 112 million - an increase of 28 per cent, warns an anti-poverty agency.
more...Related topics/regions: [South East Asia] |
19.02.2009
Outrage has been voiced by international media groups at the murder in Pakistan's Swat valley of a journalist whose beheaded body was found shortly after he covered a “peace march” related to an agreement about implementation of Sharia law.
more...+ Murder shatters Swat peace negotiations From: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related topics/regions: [Pakistan] |
18.02.2009
Six months after India experienced its worst flooding in more than half a century, more than 20,000 children in the northern state of Bihar have still not returned to regular schooling.
more...From: Save The Children Related topics/regions: [India] |
17.02.2009
At least 100,000 people, including up to 56,000 children, remain displaced in Gaza with many continuing to take shelter in tents or crowding into remaining homes with other families, says a children's charity.
more...+ Amid Rubble, Gazans Begin to Rebuild + OneWorld Guide to Palestine From: Save The Children Related topics/regions: [Palestine] Image: Fuel truck bound for Gaza, 2008 © Shabai Gold / IRIN News
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17.02.2009
Indochina’s few surviving elephants are under increasing threat from booming illegal ivory prices in Vietnam, according to a new market analysis by a wildlife trade monitoring network.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Vietnam] |
16.02.2009
The spate of lese-majesty cases in Thailand is a manifestation of a turn away from the democratic and social developments of the 1990s and back towards the outdated authoritarianism of earlier decades, says an Asian rights group.
more...From: Asian Human Rights Commission Related topics/regions: [Thailand] [Freedom of expression] |
15.02.2009
Pankaj Mishra grapples with the contemporary conundrum of democracy. Why did voters re-elect Bush and Blair? He fears for the outcome of the Indian election. Guardian
more...Related topics/regions: [India] [United States] [Conflict] [Democracy] |
11.02.2009
The Church of England's decision to disinvest from Caterpillar is welcomed by a development agency that urges institutional investors to pull out of a company whose bulldozers have been used to build Israel's Separation Wall and destroy Palestinians’ homes.
more...From: War on Want Related topics/regions: [Israel] [United Kingdom] Image: War on Want
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11.02.2009
An international media freedom group has protested to Sri Lanka's media minister about the censoring of BBC World Service programmes.
more...ICRC evacuates over 240 wounded and sick from the Vanni by sea Related topics/regions: [Sri Lanka] |
10.02.2009
Church opposition in the Philippines to destructive mining on its islands was supported by Church leaders in Britain at the launch of a report Philippines: Mining or Food? in London yesterday.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Philippines] Image: Clare Short MP hosted the Westminster launch of the report, alongside 'two mining executives', Clive Wicks and Robert Goodland (report authors), and Bishop John Arnold, auxiliary in the Catholic Diocese of Westminster and Anglican Bishop Michael Doe, General Secretary of Anglicans in World Mission.
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09.02.2009
The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin and her crew have withdrawn from the Japanese whaling fleet to begin preparations to return with a faster and longer range ship.
more...+ Iceland - killing whales makes no sense From: Greenpeace International Related topics/regions: [Japan] Image: Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin finds and engages the Japanese whaler Yushin Maru No. 2
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