Full Coverage: South East Asia

27.04.2006 Plants in Borneo that could help treat or cure diseases such as cancer, AIDS and malaria are threatened by deforestation, a new report warns.

26.04.2006 Another Filipino activist has been killed and several others seriously wounded, in what a rights group describes as "yet further examples of the alarming level of incidents of extra-judicial executions across the country".

25.04.2006 A top environmental group is advising the Indonesian government to consider setting up an early warning system for disasters that result from climate change as part of efforts to mitigate its effects.

24.04.2006 There are times when a handful of dedicated men and women can work together to stop campaigns of terrorism and to remedy the intractable poverty that leads to massive violence.

20.04.2006 Having uncovered substandard work in its post-tsunami building programme in Indonesia, Save the Children says it has temporarily suspended new work, and is holding contractors to account for the quality of construction.

19.04.2006 Indonesia is undertaking two major projects to improve its Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure, an Indonesian official said here Tuesday.

18.04.2006 Burma has the worst internal displacement crisis in Asia, a leading international refugee group said as it urged the UN Security Council to seek a resolution to the country's political crisis.

12.04.2006 In a move to computerise the entire operations of Congress, the House of Representatives in partnership with Microsoft Corp. Philippines opened an information and communications technology (ICT) e-Learning Center.

12.04.2006 Most governments have policies to encourage the growth of local small- and mediumenterprises (SMEs) because they can help alleviate poverty by increasing income levels and creating jobs. As the global economy becomes increasingly reliant on information communication technologies (ICTs) to receive, process, and send out information, SMEs in developing countries should not be left behind.

10.04.2006 Captive elephants used as working or tourist animals are often victims of stress, poor husbandry and lack of veterinary care. Find out how you contribute towards setting up a mobile elephant clinic in Thailand this June.

10.04.2006 Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned, but his invisible hand still controls much of what is going on in government and society at large, says Focus on the Global South's Jacques Chai Chomthongdi.

07.04.2006 Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who has announced his resignation, continues to harass the independent press with criminal cases against at least six journalists and media for “defamation", according to an international media watchdog.

06.04.2006 Women's rights activist Inday Estorba was shot and killed in her home in the Philippines - the 68th woman activist to be murdered during President Gloria Arroyo's administration.

05.04.2006 Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra acquiesced to mounting popular calls for his resignation this week. Ellen Roggemann looks at the events that led to the surprising turn-about for the once-popular leader.

05.04.2006 Thailand’s prime minister made a spectacular gamble - and lost. Jan McGirk reports from Bangkok.

05.04.2006 Under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) , the Government has almost doubled its allocation for the information, communications and technology (ICT) sector to RM13 billion from RM7.8 billion previously.