Full Coverage: South East Asia

30.01.2008 Nurhikma, 8 years old, and 3,000 other Filipino children from war torn areas in Mindanao, the Philippines recently participated in four days of fun activities for kids, a program coordinated by local and regional actors.

30.01.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Jan 29 (OneWorld) - Hundreds of international officials, business leaders, and civil society activists have gathered in Indonesia this week for a major UN conference on corruption. At the same time, a week-long period of mourning began in the country to honor a political leader deemed to be one of the most corrupt in world history.

28.01.2008 An initiative "to secure the economic, social and environmental sustainability of around a million cocoa farmers and their communities in Ghana, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean" was unveiled by chocolate manufacturer Cadbury and the UN Development Programme today.
From Cadbury Schweppes

25.01.2008 A prominent Burmese poet has been arrested for writing a Valentine’s Day poem that contained a coded criticism of the head of the military government, General Than Shwe.
+ Activists' Arrests on the Increase in Myanmar

24.01.2008 The death sentence imposed on a young Malaysian woman caught smuggling narcotics by Beijing authorities has aroused condemnation among Malaysians who are now questioning their own country's death penalty.

22.01.2008 Burma's monks led protests in 2007 that may well mark the beginning of the end of more than 40 years of brutal military rule.

17.01.2008 In wake of Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis and demands by various activist groups, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has announced doubling its humanitarian aid to £18 million over the next three years. Around one-third of the country's poor survive on less than US$ 1 a day.

15.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 15 (OneWorld) - Rights activists in the West are urging buyers and sellers of precious gems to reject rubies and jades mined in Myanmar (formerly Burma).

15.01.2008 Human Rights advocates are urging consumers and merchants to shun Burmese gems at the military government's latest auction of precious stones. Human Rights Watch has attacked the gem trade for propping up the military dictatorship and it is felt that western boycotts could significantly hamper the junta’s profits.

10.01.2008 Several Thai environmental groups are hoping to reverse last year's decision to lift the ban on genetically modified foods, citing that the lift may put Thailand's agricultural industry in danger.

10.01.2008 A new mobile phone service launched in Singapore aims to extend the reach of government e-services to the public and business users on the move.

08.01.2008 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 8 (IPS) - In a move that may hurt Malaysia's multi-religious social fabric the government has announced that certain Arabic words like 'Allah' cannot be used in the literature, gospel, and speeches of non-Muslim faiths.

08.01.2008 Field investigations in Indonesia have found that the home of two tribes of indigenous people and endangered elephants, tigers and orang-utans faces “being split in half” by construction of “a legally questionable highway” for logging trucks servicing one of the world’s largest paper companies.

07.01.2008 A series of stories looks at HIV vulnerability, poverty, and women's rights and empowerment since the 2004 natural disaster ravaged Southeast Asia.