Full Coverage: South East Asia

30.03.2005 A governing principle of the ASEAN group of nations is that they should not interfere with each other's internal affairs. This permits Burma not only to be a member but also to Chair the group in 2006. Should the EU accept invitations?

30.03.2005 News of Monday's Indian Ocean earthquake triggered rapid movement of people away from high risk coastal areas. But this was thanks to old-fashioned acts of good community neighbours rather than expensive tsunami warning systems.

11.03.2005 The Global Information Technology Report (GITR) 2004-05 ranks Singapore, for the first time, as the most advanced economy taking full advantage of ICTs. GITR, a yearly publication of the World Economic Forum, serves as the key benchmarking tool to determine the comparative strengths and weaknesses in their ICT usage and deployment.

04.03.2005 The reconstruction of Aceh requires more logs than Indonesia can provide from legal sources. The government's answer is to fell trees in the local Gunung Leuser National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Can the international community step in with alternative supplies?

03.03.2005 U.S. veterans of the war in Viet Nam have been compensated for the health problems they faced as a result of their exposure to the forest-clearing chemical Agent Orange during the U.S. military campaign in Southeast Asia. For the first time ever, Vietnamese victims are demanding just compensation as well.