Full Coverage: South East Asia

28.10.2005 The Philippines government is being urged to stop the murders of church people, human rights advocates, journalists, trade unionists and political activists - said to total 100 this year alone.

26.10.2005 APDIP and the UNDP Asia-Pacific Gender Mainstreaming Programme will be hosting a one-day workshop titled “Mapping Gender in the Information Society: From Reality to Discourse”. The event will be held on 31 October 2005 at the Menam Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

26.10.2005 Research on information literacy in China and Indonesia started in September 2005, conducted by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) with funding from UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP).

26.10.2005 Vietnam's attempts to enter the World Trade Organisation have been blocked by what the country's negotiators say are unacceptable new demands by Washington that the socialist country change the way its economy works, more than it already has.

24.10.2005 As part of the UNESCO “Strengthening ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in ASEAN Setting” project, a training session was recently provided for teachers which aimed to assist them in learning to facilitate telecollaboration (sharing knowledge through the internet) with their students, and how this enhances teaching and learning.

19.10.2005 Experts from Thailand are helping a Tanzanian drug company learn how to manufacture and distribute anti-AIDS drugs at home, making life-saving medications available in the country--where 1.6 million are living with HIV/AIDS--at a fraction of the previous cost.

19.10.2005 On October 17 2005, twelve countries in Asia launched the ‘Peoples’ Caravan for Justice and Sovereignty’ in protest against the December 14-18, WTO Hong Kong Ministerial 2005. The event was intended to coincide with the International Day for Eradication of Poverty, and was symbolic of a world wide call asking to end poverty, stop WTO negotiations, dismantle unequal trade systems and ensure food sovereignty, women's rights, universal health care, as well as elimination of HIV and other diseases.

19.10.2005 Chinese logging companies have been illicitly importing timber across the Burma-China border – ‘possibly the most bio-diverse, rich, temperate area on earth’ – despite bilateral agreements to combat the illegal trade, and with the full knowledge of both the Chinese government and Burmese regime, new evidence shows.

19.10.2005 BANGKOK, Oct 18 (IPS) - An environmental disaster unfolding along the border that military-ruled Burma shares with China has all the elements of hypocrisy written large. In this case, the guilty party is China.

17.10.2005 The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is a programme focused on providing support to young social entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions to social problems. It has given a call to young people (less than 30 years) in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka to apply for fellowships to solve environmental, health and social problems before October 31, 2005.

16.10.2005 Deborah Tomasowa—and Mercy Corps—were in Banda Aceh days after last December's tsunami struck, helping deliver aid and return a sense of normalcy to those affected. Nine months later, they now focus on long-term recovery and sustainable development.

14.10.2005 Britain should stop dithering and come out in support of proposed discussions on Burma at the UN Security Council, a leading campaign group said yesterday.

14.10.2005 The main prize of the UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005 - “City and Creative Media” goes to Indian artist Ashok Sukumaran for his “poetic yet pragmatic” project SWITCH.

13.10.2005 In developing country contexts, handheld computer applications are starting to show their benefits across development sectors. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other types of handheld computers offer considerable advantages over desktops or even laptops. Health and microfinance have been particularly keen to test handheld applications.

06.10.2005 Malaysia will launch a digital TV (DTV) trial program to pave the way for the national digitalisation drive, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Information Lim Siang Chai said .

04.10.2005 Bali’s latest bombings and southern Thailand’s insurgency reflect the pressures of southeast Asia’s political and cultural border-zones, writes Jan McGirk in Bangkok for openDemocracy.

04.10.2005 The e-choupal project of ITC Ltd has won the 'IT excellence award 2005' instituted by the 'MIS Asia' magazine in the category of 'Best business enabler'. The award was announced in Singapore at the 'MIS Asia IT Summit'.

04.10.2005 BALI, Oct 2 (IPS) - With experts fairly certain that Saturday's bombings were a repeat of the October 2002 attacks on this tourist resort by the Jemaah Islamiyah, the big question is when will the group, said to have links with the international al-Qaeda network, strike next.

03.10.2005 IBM’s Academic Initiative and Centre for Advanced Studies will help equip 3500 students per year with IT skills to become a more competitive workforce.