http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/965/ en_GB_uk East Asia http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/159046/1/ BANGKOK, Mar 20 (IPS) - New technology, religion, and the market must be harnessed to secure basic toilet facilities for Asia's rural and urban poor, sanitation experts from the region said here Thursday. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/158195/1/ Japanese telecom leader NTT DoCoMo unveiled an innovative Bluetooth handset, the “Sound Leaf Plus” at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The light-weight mobile works when pressed against the bone below the ear and has a high frequency switch for improved sound articulation. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/153007/1/ http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/137201/1/ PESHAWAR, Jul 31 (IPS) - Two Afghan journalists, who spent three years in the infamous United States military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have released a new chronicle on life in the now famous iron cages. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/135230/1/ UNESCO Bangkok's ICT in Education unit has recently released a directory and associated CD-ROM of ICT resources for teachers. The directory describes the content on the UNESCO SchoolNet CD-Rom, which is a set of ICT-based resources for teaching and learning of science, mathematics and language for use with secondary-level students. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/131593/1/ KATHMANDU, Apr 25 (IPS) - Nepal's capital was light-hearted again Tuesday. From the hundreds of thousands who marched, danced and sang on the roads, to the store-keepers idly chatting before open shops, to the pedestrians speaking on mobile phones nimbly side-stepping potholes, relief and normality were in the air hours after the king bowed to "people power" rather than face a protest headed for the palace gates. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71084 Children must be at the centre of a dramatically scaled up response to HIV and AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific, organisers of the first high-level regional meeting focusing on children and AIDS said. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/127768/1/ Mounting evidence that more people in Asia and the Pacific will be dying of chronic diseases rather than infectious ones by 2015 will force the region's governments to redraw their public health budgets, say United Nations officials. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/127597/1/ KATHMANDU, Feb 14 (IPS) - Thirteen thousand -- plus Asmina Chapagain. The former is the estimated number of Nepalis killed since Maoist rebels hurled their first homemade bombs at the state, 10 years ago, this week. Chapagain was one of the latest innocents caught in the crossfire. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/127314/1/ WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (IPS) - The escalating crisis over Iran's nuclear programme appears to have persuaded the U.S. public that Tehran now poses a greater threat to the United States than any other country, or even al Qaeda, according to recent surveys. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/127120/1/ WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration's adoption of a policy of threatening to use military force against Iran disregarded a series of official intelligence estimates going back many years that consistently judged Iran's fear of a U.S. attack to be a major motivating factor in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/126809/1/ DOHA, Qatar, Feb 3 (IPS) - Its foreign bureaus were bombed by U.S. warplanes, it is banned from reporting from four Middle East countries - and Al-Jazeera is only growing in popularity. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/126779/1/ UNESCO Office in Jakarta, using the funds donated by the Danish Journalist Association, carried out the distribution of 100 radio receivers to Tsunami victims in Aceh, Indonesia. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/126630/1/ KATHMANDU, Feb 1 (IPS) - One election candidate is dead, another is recovering from a gunshot wound and dozens more live in fear in army barracks across Nepal. Nearly two weeks of daily skirmishes between armour-clad police and rock throwing, tyre-burning protesters have filled jails and turned town centres into zones of fear. http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/126070/1/ Representatives of Asian and Pacific governments meeting at a United Nations-sponsored conference in Bangkok pledged to harmonize economic growth with environmental sustainability in addressing climate change, air pollution, industrial development and energy issues.