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BURMA: Pro-Democracy Leader Appeals for International Aid
His name does not carry the same aura as Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet, to his fellow citizens, the 42-year-old Min Ko Naing is just as significant as 'The Lady'.DEVELOPMENT: China, India Fail Their Children, Says UN
They may be the standard bearers of Asia's economic growth, yet the continent's two giants, India and China, have failed to ensure that such achievements benefit their children, says a U.N. report.MILLENNIUM GOALS: Burma Must Tackle TB and HIV
For over 15 years a clinic in Mae Sot, a town along Thailand's north-western border, has offered a glimpse into how widespread tuberculosis (TB) is in neighbouring Burma.DEVELOPMENT: Jobless Growth Continues to Plague Asia
Continued underemployment and unemployment in Asia have conspired to expose a glaring flaw in the pretty picture that is often painted of this region, as an economic success story with impressive growth figures.HEALTH-THAILAND: Cigarettes May Be Sold Not Displayed
-Thailand's anti-tobacco lobby is on the verge of smoking out the ubiquitous display of cigarette packets that are placed behind or by the side of the cashiers' counters in retail shops across the country.BURMA: Junta Stymies Millennium Development Goals
Who says the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs can be boring? Not if a military regime comes in the way of one of the global targets prescribed by the United Nations-halting the spread of AIDS by 2015.LABOUR: Thailand Draws Migrant Labour Despite Tough Laws
Thailand will continue to attract migrant workers from its poorer neighbours due to the voracious appetite Thai employers have for such cheap labour, say labour rights activists and analysts.DEVELOPMENT: Asia’s Children Pay for Skewed Priorities, Report
Asian countries have failed their children, charges a leading development agency in its report that reveals a staggering 600 million children in the region condemned to a life of abject poverty and deprivation.POLITICS-BURMA: Indonesia’s Ali Alatas Steps in Where Others Cannot
The surprise visit by former Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas to Burma has turned the spotlight on the South-east Asian statesman considered best qualified to bring political change to the military-ruled country.RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: Delays Dog Khmer Rouge Genocide Trials
A United Nations evaluation team's scheduled arrival in Cambodia, next month, has perked up hopes that the long wait to prosecute the surviving leaders of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime may soon be over.SRI LANKA: Blame for Kadirgamar Murder Falls Partly on Norway
If the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militants are indeed linked to the assassination of Sri Lankan foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar then Norway, which brokered a peace deal in that country, may have to accept part of the blame.HEALTH: Asia in the Lurch as West Buys Out Avian-Flu Drug Stocks
A race to corner limited stocks of 'Tamiflu', the only known drug capable of stopping an epidemic of the deadly avian flu, has brought into the open a divide between the developed and developing world that, left unchecked, could have disastrous consequences for all.HEALTH: Asia in the Lurch as West Buys Out Avian-Flu Drug Stocks
A race to corner limited stocks of 'Tamiflu', the only known drug capable of stopping an epidemic of the deadly avian-flu, has brought into the open a divide between the developed and developing world that, left unchecked, could have disastrous consequences for all.THAILAND: Case of ‘Disappeared’ Lawyer Raises Rights Issues
A criminal trial that began here this week has given a new platform to Angkana Wongrachain, the most visible face of traumatised Thai women whose husbands have been 'disappeared' over the past 20 months.HEALTH: Experts Decry Commercial Approach to Global Challenges
Public health experts from the developing and developed world are calling on governments to pursue remedies for global health problems with a new vision rather than going by a 'disease-based' approach.BURMA: Top UN Official Reports Gross Malnutrition, Poverty
A journey from the Burmese capital of Rangoon to the country's borders reveals a picture of hungry, malnourished children that is ''serious'' and ''getting worse,'' a top United Nations official reported Friday.POLITICS-THAILAND: Cabinet Reshuffle Draws Flak
The headlines that greeted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's first cabinet reshuffle in his second term of office amounted to a collective jeer from the press gallery.POLITICS: ASEAN Searches for Common Political Values
As the regional grouping, ASEAN, embarks on a journey to make itself more cohesive it faces the daunting challenge of finding common ground on democratic values that its ten politically disparate members can identify with .HEALTH: Farm Practices Blamed for China’s ‘Pig-Flu’ Outbreak
Farming practices across East Asia are once again under scrutiny after over 30 people died in a south-western province of China from a mysterious disease caused by a common bacterium that thrives among pigs.POLITICS: Burmese Junta in World’s Doghouse
Being compelled to relinquish its turn at chairing the regional grouping ASEAN in 2006 may have hurt Burma's military rulers less than the sanctions waved at them by the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday./ARTS WEEKLY/BOOKS: Sihanouk, Monarch and More
Cambodia's retired King Norodom Sihanouk gets special mention in an on-line publication that dabbles in news about the purveyors of chaos.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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