Full Coverage: South East Asia

31.05.2006 UN agencies have resumed food distribution to camps in East Timor holding 100,000 displaced people but conditions are worsening due to overcrowding and rain.

31.05.2006 A new cheap laptop trademark produced by an alliance of some local computer hardware companies in Viet Nam has been introduced to public.

31.05.2006 Northern Bac Ninh province has become Viet Nam's first e-government province with the application of electronic monitoring systems at its agencies and organisations.

31.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 30 (OneWorld) - American private aid agencies are responding to the massive earthquake that hit Indonesia over the weekend. The magnitude 6.3 quake that struck southern Java in the early morning Saturday left over 5,000 dead, 20,000 injured, and 130,000 homeless.

30.05.2006 Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested in May 2003 after the regime’s militia attacked her convoy and killed up to 100 of her supporters. She is still in detention. She isn't allowed to see family or friends. Her phone line is cut and her post is intercepted. Join the global campaign to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma.

30.05.2006 Saturday's powerful earthquake has killed thousands and may have left over 100,000 homeless. The government estimates that nearly $100 million will be needed to provide food, health care, and shelter, and then start reconstruction.

30.05.2006 A new Lao Television drama developed from child trafficking case studies follows the life of a trafficked teenage girl and teaches the country's youth to "Be Smart, Be Safe."

30.05.2006 Power blackouts and overnight rain hampered rescue work in the wake of the Indonesian earthquake and heaped misery on people who left their homes.
* Supplies arrive
* Oxfam supporting 20,000 people

29.05.2006 Emergency supplies for people left homeless by Saturday’s Indonesian earthquake are being distributed in the worst-affected areas of Yogyakarta today.
* World Wide Help: earthquake blog
* First emergency food arrives for Indonesia earthquake victims
* Effective state responses needed in dealing with earthquake aftermath
* Water and supplies for survivors
* Thousands reported killed in central Java earthquake; UNICEF responds
* Red Cross Red Crescent launches emergency appeal
* Christian Aid
* Doctors and nurses helping in villages
* World Vision teams dispatched
* Mercy Corps responds
* First MSF teams to Indonesia earthquake
* Save the Children responds

27.05.2006 Oxfam said its emergency teams were working around the clock to bring clean drinking water and essential supplies to thousands of people made homeless by the Yogyakarta earthquake on Saturday.
* Thousands reported killed in central Java earthquake; UNICEF responds
* Red Cross Red Crescent launches emergency appeal
* Christian Aid
* Partners help those affected by Java earthquake
* Earthquake kills more than 2,500
* Mercy Corps responds
* First MSF teams to Indonesia earthquake
* Save the Children responds instantly

27.05.2006 Burma’s military dictatorship extended Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention at the weekend, despite calls for her release from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The move was also an embarrassment for UN Under-Secretary Ibrahim Gambari, who campaigners said was "duped by the regime’s lies and propaganda" during his visit to the country last week.

26.05.2006 UN Under-Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari was accused of falling for Burmese government spin yesterday as a pro-democracy group insisted: "This is not a new chapter or new page, as Gambari claims, it is the same old story."

26.05.2006 About 30 victims of human rights violations are to visit former Indonesian president, 84-year-old Suharto, in hospital today (Friday). They include victims of the 1965 massacres in which an estimated 500,000 people died.

26.05.2006 "A population of a billion and a half depends on this rain," says Veerabhadran Ramanathan. Unfortunately, the South Asia monsoon that brings this rain may be losing strength thanks to global warming and the brown haze of pollution that hangs over the Indian Ocean.

25.05.2006 Development work is being jeopardised in East Timor as many flee fighting in the capital, Dili.

25.05.2006 Although adults in Southeast Asia say direct assaults are not an appropriate punishment for children, children report the main form of punishment they receive is direct assaults, says a new report.

23.05.2006 The deaths of 127 democracy activists in custody in Burma - all allegedly the result of torture or ill-treatment - are detailed in a new report by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners today.
* Inside Burma: fear and repression

22.05.2006 BANGKOK, May 22 (IPS) - Going by the highly restrictive way Burma's military regime does business, it was a victory for international diplomacy. On the weekend, it looked as if the junta was taking a step back by permitting a senior United Nations official to meet incarcerated, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

22.05.2006 Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT) is now the regional center for human rights education in Southern Philippines.

19.05.2006 A senior United Nations official began the first high-level talks, in more than two years, between the world body and the Government of Myanmar, bearing a clear message about the need to restore democracy and full human rights in the South Asian country.