Full Coverage: South Asia

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

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.

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.

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)

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.
+ Murder shatters Swat peace negotiations

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.

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

11.02.2009 An international media freedom group has protested to Sri Lanka's media minister about the censoring of BBC World Service programmes.
ICRC evacuates over 240 wounded and sick from the Vanni by sea

05.02.2009 Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the fighting in northern Sri Lanka are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, NGOs report.

03.02.2009 Hospitals inside the area controlled by Sri Lankan anti-government rebels are overburdened and in need of medical supplies and medical staff, says an international medical charity which is preparing to deploy mobile clinics.
+ UN official concerned over shelling of hospital, worsening civilian plight
+ Increasing number of children injured in fighting
+ Vanni hospital shelled