Monocle December 28, 2010 — Dili Writer: Matt Crook They may not yet have flat roads, regular electricity or a constant water supply, but work on Timor-Leste’s...
Bangkok’s best and worst of 2010
CNNGo December 27, 2010 — It was a riotous year for Thailand in 2010. The rural masses took to the streets of Bangkok and brought...
Rights groups blast Thailand for lack of action on child porn
LONDON: A gap in the Thai penal code is fuelling “an environment of impunity” on the streets of Bangkok and leaving distributors of child pornography...
The DJ is dead, long live the DJ
LONDON: Once upon a time there was a DJ competition that all the world's turntablists wanted to win. The list of past champions read like...
Road repairs a boon to villages
DILI, 22 November 2010 (IRIN) - Timor-Leste's government is engaging rural communities to improve the country's road network, which is almost 60 percent unpaved, to...
Community involvement key to disaster preparedness
DHAKA, 18 November 2010 (IRIN) - Working in one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, Bangladeshi aid groups have learned that well-intentioned disaster...
Snipping Away at Youth Unemployment
DILI, Nov 11, 2010 (IPS) – In a small city where most of the 22,000 inhabitants rely on subsistence farming to put food on the...
Rohingya youth hunger for education
KUTUPALONG, 10 November 2010 (IRIN) - Ask any one of the 18,000 Rohingya youth at two government-run refugee camps in Bangladesh what they want most,...
The Standards
Tiger Tales November-December 2010 The Standards...
A look inside the Cerebral Palsy Children’s Association of Penang
CNNGo September 13, 2010 — Psychedelic colors are projected onto the walls around the room. Giant tubes like lava lamps glow in one corner while...
Millennium development goals: Fragile states claim summit outcome off-target
Also run by The Guardian. DILI, Sep 23, 2010 (IPS) - Calls by fragile states for greater focus on addressing conflict and fragility have been largely...
East Timor’s first soap opera, ‘Suku Hali,’ mends fences with melodrama
CNNGo September 24, 2010 — Forget Australian caravan park and U.S. hospital dramas: “This is a story about Timorese life,” says 21-year-old Timorese actor Asala...
Bangkok: City of sex, scandal and wannabe expat authors
CNNGo September 21, 2010 — “Writing is easy, you just have to be prepared to live with a permanent identity crisis,” says British crime-writer John...
Decades-old water dispute could destroy nation’s agriculture
DHAKA, 20 September 2010 (IRIN) - Ongoing wrangling over vital waterways that pass through China and India – the two most populous countries in the...
Population pressure, climate change drive search for new rice varieties
NAOGAON, 6 September 2010 (IRIN) - Like many farmers in Bangladesh, Abdul Aziz from Naogaon District in northwestern Bangladesh has had to adapt his plantings...