Al Jazeera English
| Mar 27, 2013
Military tension is rising in Asia, and not just on the Korean peninsula. A Chinese naval task force has reached the southernmost part of the South China Sea, which it claims as its own -- to the annoyance of neighboring nations. Al Jazeera's Flor...
LinkAsia
| Feb 25, 2013
Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines is UNESCO's only Marine World Heritage Site in Southeast Asia. That's why the outcry was so severe when an American minesweeper ship, the USS Guardian, ran aground on the reef and became completely stuck. Contribu...
Channel 4 News
| Feb 24, 2013
The daily school run is a dangerous business in southern Thailand - where ethnic tensions often boil over into bloody violence. The Thai military has been dispatched to protect schools as muslim insurgents aim their firepower on teachers.
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MBC
| Feb 11, 2013
Foreign direct investment, primarily from China and South Korea, has flooded Myanmar since the country began to open up and enact broad reforms two years ago. South Korean broadcaster MBC reports that this is largely due to low labor costs and has...
LinkAsia
| Jan 7, 2013
LinkAsia is jumping on the "year-end list" bandwagon by asking our contributors what the top words in social media were throughout Asia in 2012. Toshi Maeda reports from Japan, Yoo Eun Lee from South Korea, Ajoy Bose from India, Nicole Sy from Chi...
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VTV4
| Jan 7, 2013
Facebook was blocked in Vietnam until 2009 due to government concern that it would become a tool of dissidents. Now, the country has the most Facebook users in Asia. But as state-run VTV4 reports, the new worry is that the social networking site i...
The New York Times
| Dec 23, 2012
Buddhism has been a way of life in Thailand for centuries, but inside the most popular temples is a trend that critics call "fast-food Buddhism." As more people find comfort in consumer culture, how can Buddhism attract followers while maintaining...
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VTV4
| Dec 21, 2012
After growing at nearly ten percent a year in the past decade, Vietnam's economy will be lucky to reach half that in 2012. As a result, Vietnamese are curbing consumption and saving more. Vietnamese broadcaster VTV4 reports on what this means for ...
LinkAsia
| Nov 26, 2012
The Southeast Asian nations most important to the US strategy of containment towards China have been dubbed "swing states." LinkAsia speaks with Daljit Singh of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies about the effectiveness of Obama's China cont...
— Jun 10 at 02:42 am
Indonesia has pledged to cut its carbon emissions by 26 percent from the current 2.1 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) by 2020. Yet the ...
— Nov 18, 2012 at 09:33 am
...The nonbinding declaration calls for an end to torture, arbitrary arrests and other rights violations that have been longtime concerns in Southe...
— May 16 at 03:07 pm
...to be announced in due course. Both channels bow June 14. SINGAPORE: AETN All Asia Networks is bringing Lifetime and H2 to Southeast Asia as of ...
Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic and volcanic activity. Southeast Asia consists of two geographic regions: Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as Indochina, comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia, and Maritime Southeast Asia, comprising Brunei, East Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, Philippines, Christmas Island, and Singapore.
The major religions are Islam and Buddhism, followed by Christianity. However, a wide variety of religions are found throughout the region, including many Hindu and animist-influenced practices.
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