Full Coverage: South East Asia

29.09.2006 from Unplugged Living:
'I’ve heard of rural areas before that have been granted solar facilities but nobody was properly trained to support and carry on the maintenance. The results is unused PV with dead batteries.' Not this time.

25.09.2006 The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology sought cooperation from broadcasters to temporarily stop activities of political expression via short-messaging or phone-in.

21.09.2006 The media have evoked images of a quiet and non-violent coup that is expected to just "slip in and slip out" of Bangkok. But a coup's presence is felt long after it is physically gone; Thailand is in a very dangerous moment.

20.09.2006 Human rights campaigners are calling on the United Nations Security Council to "turn words into action, and pass a binding resolution requiring change in Burma."

20.09.2006 A training program has helped eight Malaysian women break through the barriers of gender discrimination and disability to find jobs that allow them to work from home.

19.09.2006 BANGKOK, Sep 19 (IPS) - Tuesday evening was just like any muggy night, except for telltale signs that suddenly had residents of the Thai capital sitting up. Troops in camouflage, fully armed with machine guns, were fanning out across the city streets, and news reports soon said tanks were taking over the Government House and that soldiers had gone into the Prime Minister's office.

15.09.2006 ActionAid is demanding that the World Bank and IMF no longer hold their annual meetings in countries restricting civil and political liberties, after three of its staff were detained and one is about to be deported.
From: ActionAid International

14.09.2006 from Hugg:
An expanding ten-mile square lake of hot oozing mud has already forced up to 10,000 people from their homes in Indonesia, after an oil drilling operation went terribly wrong.

08.09.2006 UNICEF and a foreign government are helping the children of Lebanon get back to school. Other programs are reaching out to kids in East Timor and Nigeria, while Palestinian kids face teacherless classrooms. Plus, how green is your campus?

07.09.2006 After May's violence that displaced some 15 percent of the population, UNICEF is hoping the new school year will help bring a return to normalcy in Timor-Leste.

07.09.2006 Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Jesli Lapus addressed the 2nd National ICTs in Basic Education Congress, which started today at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City.

04.09.2006 A non-government organization is working to involve civil society organizations in the formulation of government information and communications technology (ICT) policies.

01.09.2006 Creative solutions are helping get kids in school and improve the quality of education.