Full Coverage: South East Asia

28.09.2007 Press freedom groups said Friday that Burma's military junta has stepped up its strategy of isolating the country, trying to reproduce the scenario of the 1988 massacres when witness accounts of the bloodshed only reached the outside world after it was over.
From: Reporters Without Borders, Burma Media Association

28.09.2007 "The role of the sons of Lord Buddha" by Maung Zarni; "Burma's hour of need" by Sholto Byrnes; "The world must act for Burma" by Zoya Phan; "Burma: the history behind the protests" by Michael Charney; "The way I see it" by Htein Lin.
From: New Statesman

27.09.2007 As the situation in Myanmar (formerly Burma) escalates, protesters around the world are gathering outside the country's embassies, calling for an end to the violence aimed at the peaceful demonstrators.

26.09.2007 Security forces in Myanmar opened fire Wednesday on demonstrators, and witnesses said police beat and dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks. The government said at least one person was killed, while dissident groups and media reported up to eight dead.

26.09.2007 At least one person was killed and five wounded during mass protests in Burma today.

26.09.2007 The voices of open dissent raised against the military regime in Burma represent a test for the international community as much as the will of the Burmese people, says Aung Zaw, editor of the online journal Irrawaddy.
From: openDemocracy

26.09.2007 Scientists claim to have discovered 11 new species of animals and plants in a remote area in central Vietnam.

26.09.2007 Burmese security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while hauling Buddhist monks away in trucks today as they tried to stop anti-government demonstrations in defiance of a ban on assembly.

25.09.2007 World Bank give some options for reducing GHG emissions from energy sector.Is whether the advice was arisen based solely on the reality of energy mix policy in Indonesia?

25.09.2007 The Buddhist monk-led demonstrations are growing to a crescendo throughout Myanmar (formerly Burma) and deserve the support of the international community, says an Asian rights group describing powerful scenes from the streets of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and beyond.

25.09.2007 Burmese soldiers have been ordered to shave their heads, in possible preparation for infiltrating peaceful demonstrations in order to provide a pretext for a crackdown on protestors, according to democracy activists.

24.09.2007 Buddhist monk-led protests against the military dictatorship of Myanmar -- formerly Burma -- have grown to include record numbers of civilians Monday, according to local sources in the tightly controlled country. It's unclear why the junta has not forcibly put down these protests, or why the jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed to greet protesters over the weekend.

21.09.2007 The use of violence and censorship against Burmese journalists trying to cover the protests that began a month ago is a “detestable strategy” aimed at preventing them from doing their jobs, media freedom groups said.

19.09.2007 Expansion of aquaculture industries in various countries has been encouraged by the financial assistance provided by international donor agencies such as the World Bank, ADB, IDB. Walhi call the International Financial Institutions stop the promotion and funding of industrial shrimp aquaculture.

16.09.2007 A UN team determined Thursday that Indonesian efforts to respond to a series of massive earthquakes have been quite effective, "and demonstrate how preparedness can go a long way towards meeting needs in the aftermath of a disaster." Emergency supplies, however, are standing by should the situation change.

14.09.2007 Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Thailand are currently gathering outside the UN headquarters in New York to demand greater attention be paid to global hunger. Through a regularly updated blog, the campaigners are sharing behind-the-scenes action, video feeds, concert footage, and more.

12.09.2007 The UN has saluted the peaceful elections held recently in the fragile Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, but urged the country’s citizens and political parties to engage in political dialogue to consolidate the democracy and peace.

06.09.2007 Several hundred Buddhist monks seized a group of officials from Myanmar's military government after a protest march in a northern province, witnesses said.
From: Al Jazeera

06.09.2007 A protest march by hundreds of Buddhist monks in central Myanmar has been broken up by soldiers who fired warning shots and arrested several protesters, according to witnesses and exiled pro-democracy groups.
From: Al Jazeera

04.09.2007 European leaders must back the British Prime Minister in calling for concerted international action on Burma, European MP Glenys Kinnock has urged.