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HEALTH: WHO Chief’s Stand on Generic Drugs Slammed
Civil society and humanitarian groups slammed the new head of the World Health Organisation (WHO), on the sidelines of a meeting here, after she appeared to favour the interests of pharmaceutical giants over the plight of the sick and the poor in the developing world.HEALTH-THAILAND: Junta Defends Cheap Generic Drugs
Thailand's military-appointed government appears set to insist on the right of a developing country to save the lives of its people rather than protect the profits of Western pharmaceutical corporations.HEALTH-LAOS: Women Recruited Into War on Bird Flu
Women from ethnic communities in the hilly, northern part of Laos have, for over a decade, been drawn into poultry breeding as a means of combating poverty.HEALTH: Burma – HIV Hazard to Neighbours Say Experts
International health experts are warning Burma's neighbours that they face more threats from the spread of HIV along the porous borders that they share with the military-ruled country.POLITICS: S’pore Breaks ‘ASEAN Code’ by Hosting Thaksin
By hosting ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Singapore government has violated an unwritten code followed by ASEAN countries not to entertain opposition figures or political dissidents from member states.CAMBODIA: Cracking the Whip on Poachers
A regional wildlife body is aiming to spread its net wide to trap poachers and illegal loggers, now that a section of Cambodia's nature crime investigators have been armed with new legal tools.THAILAND: Junta Tightens Media Censorship
At a leading television station, the censor's scissors stands ready to snip out any reference to Thailand's ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra or members of his Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thai) party.THAILAND: Junta Tightens Media Censorship
At a leading television station, the censor's scissors stands ready to snip out any reference to Thailand's ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra or members of his Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thai) party.THAILAND: Junta Revives King’s ‘Sufficiency Economy’ Model
A development theory being advanced by Thailand's military-appointed government may provoke questions about academic freedom and the right to free expression in a country that is under the grip of harsh lese majesty laws.SOUTH-EAST ASIA: The Maid Will Check the New ASEAN Charter
It is in the kitchens and sculleries of South-east Asia's affluent homes that the new constitution of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc will be tested.HEALTH: Vietnam Faces Bird Flu Resurgence
Vietnam's glory as star performer in fighting avian influenza in 2006 is being stripped as the deadly virus reappears in the southern Mekong Delta region. February may see the epidemic sweeping through the entire country, officials warn.SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Rights Issues Loom Over ASEAN Summit
Can a relic of the Cold War reinvent itself to gain a relevant role on the contemporary global stage? The Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) seems to think so as the 10-member bloc prepares to hold its 12th summit over the weekend in the Philippines.BURMA: Defiant Public Blitzes Junta with Letters
A handwritten letter to a military dictator may sound like an ineffective and risky way of conveying defiance especially in this Internet age, where e-mails, blogs and websites have combined to threaten political authority in a number of countries.BURMA: Defiant Public Blitzes Junta with Letters
A handwritten letter to a military dictator may sound like an ineffective and risky way of conveying defiance especially in this Internet age, where e-mails, blogs and websites have combined to threaten political authority in a number of countries.ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: China Turns Mekong Into Oil-Shipping Route
As energy hungry China turns the ecologically fragile Mekong river into an oil-shipping route, green activists and environmentalists in South-east Asia worry that spillages could destroy the livelihoods of millions of people residing along the lower reaches of the region's largest waterway.POLITICS-THAILAND: Blame Game Begins Over Bombings
It is the hour of the scapegoat in the Thai capital, as the military-appointed government points fingers at its political adversary for having a hand in a rare string of bomb explosions in Bangkok at the dawn of the new year.POLITICS-THAILAND: Junta Slips on Coup Promises
The political temperature in Thailand is poised to rise in the new year as the country's military leaders scramble to retain their fast eroding legitimacy following the mid-September coup.BURMA: Karen Leader Dead – Struggle Lives On
If Burma's military regime was hoping that the death of a long-time adversary - one they have called a ‘'murderer'' and a ‘'village burner'' - is going to change the outlook of the rebel movement he led, it could not have been more mistaken.ASIA: Tsunami Recovery Hit by Corruption, Apathy
Questions that have dogged the tsunami recovery effort through 2006 coalesced in a crop of media stories and critical reports as affected countries remembered in prayer and reflection the over 220,000 people killed in that December 2004 natural disaster.SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Job Prospects for Youth Stay Dim in 2007
While South-east Asian countries appear to have made impressive economic strides since the 1997 crisis, the region's youth may not be able to look forward to a harvest of opportunities in 2007, the 10th anniversary of the Asian financial meltdown that began in Thailand.CHALLENGES 2006-2007: Dropping the Fig Leaf of ‘Asian Values’
As Indonesia lays claim to being the most promising democracy in South-east Asia, it is burying the expression, ‘Asian values,' conveniently used by leaders in this region to crush civil liberties while calling their countries democracies.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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