Full Coverage: South East Asia

28.02.2006 The University of Southern Mindanao (USM) and the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) are planning to conduct technology-based agriculture training for teachers through specially equipped buses.

28.02.2006 Communities affected by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, that killed more than 220,000 people and displaced an estimated two million across South and Southeast Asia, should be given more say in the recovery effort says the United Nations.

27.02.2006 A recent survey on the safety of small fishing vessels in Tamil Nadu (India), Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand has revealed that there is lack of safety-at-sea problems for fishermen not only in developed countries but also in developing countries.

26.02.2006 As Philippines democracy activists prepared to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the toppling of the authoritarian Marcos regime Friday--hoping to "reinvigorate people with the spirit of 1986"--President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo laid down a stifling State of Emergency.

24.02.2006 Homebound and disadvantaged women will be the next to benefit from the eHomemakers Network, which harnesses the power of the Internet to provide women with the business skills and technical training to become economically independent.

22.02.2006 Save the Children is working to assist children and families in the central Philippines following a huge mudslide that killed hundreds of people in the village of Guinsaugon.

22.02.2006 Search and rescue operations in The Philippines in the wake of the mudslide give way to helping those displaced by the heavy rains in southern Leyte.

20.02.2006 People living in the foothills of Mt Mayapay, southern Philippines, earlier this month expressed concern that their denuded mountain could be the source of a mudslide which would destroy them. Now, in another part of that country a similar deforested mountain has collapsed causing a massive mudslide that has buried a village and killed some 1700 people, including many children.

20.02.2006 Vietnam’s communicative signals dictionary for the hard-of-hearing won first prize on Sunday at a regional information and communication technology (ICT) contest held in Thailand.

20.02.2006 The Education Ministry of Malaysia will soon appoint an independent auditor to monitor the effective and efficient usage of ICTs in schools and its coverage in the country.

16.02.2006 Mounting evidence that more people in Asia and the Pacific will be dying of chronic diseases rather than infectious ones by 2015 will force the region's governments to redraw their public health budgets, say United Nations officials.

16.02.2006 AlexandraHospital is piloting a bed management system as part of a collaboration with Cisco Systems and Fujitsu Asia to address healthcare challenges such as bed shortages, the delivery of medical information and location monitoring of patients and hospital assets.

13.02.2006 A report into human rights abuses carried out in East Timor during the Indonesian occupation has intensified concerns that people living in the disputed Indonesian territory of West Papua may be experiencing similar crimes.

13.02.2006 The World Health Organisation has confirmed that two Indonesian women died last week of the lethal H5N1 strain of avian influenza, raising the death toll from the virus in Indonesia to 18. The death last week of a 23-year-old Indonesian man still has to be confirmed as a bird flu case.

11.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 11 (OneWorld) - Terror victims are being denied sanctuary under U.S. counter-terrorism laws even as next year's federal budget threatens to push ever greater numbers to seek safe haven in the first place, refugee advocates said this week.

09.02.2006 In many countries where bird flu is threatening flocks, poultry is the main source of food and income so educating the populations about the dangers of the disease and how it is spread is vital to prevention efforts. Communication campaigns that target those who are most at-risk are empowering farmers in Southeast Asia thanks to the Academy for Educational Development.

08.02.2006 Malaysians above the age of 17 are invited to take part in the first Creative Commons Malaysia Competition organised by the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC).

08.02.2006 Jo Dongwon, who belongs to a South Korean activist group that broadcasts its own reports about trade meetings or Asian summits, is not trying to compete with international networks like the Cable News Network (CNN) in terms of reach, flash and cash.

03.02.2006 Actions against TOTAL Oil will take place in at least 15 countries tody, as protesters press the company to get out of Myanmar (Burma). The London demonstration will be at the oil giant's HQ in the UK at 33 Cavendish Square, W1 at 12.30.

03.02.2006 UNESCO Office in Jakarta, using the funds donated by the Danish Journalist Association, carried out the distribution of 100 radio receivers to Tsunami victims in Aceh, Indonesia.