Aid

By Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, May 13 (IPS) - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta.

By Nalaka Gunawardene

As the United Nations and aid agencies struggle with the incredibly uncaring Burmese bureaucracy to get much needed emergency relief for the affected Burmese people, the media outside Burma are having great difficulty accessing authentic information and images.

By Lynette Lee Corporal

BANGKOK, May 2 (AMF) - The good news is that media, whether mainstream or community-based, can be effective tools in helping to make the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) a reality by 2015. The bad news? It's not happening.

Civic society organisation members attend a plenary session at Batam, Indonesia. (Credit: Bank Information Centre)

The recent brouhaha over Singapore's hard-line stance against civil society organisations' participation in the International Monetary Fund/World Bank annual meetings, held on Sep 19-20, 2006, elicited a public backlash from all over the world.

Singaporean Felix Tan tells Gerald Goh of Asia Media Forum how the recent meetings "harmed Singapore's global image", as well as his views on Singapore's 'totalitarian' image, the implications of the state's rigid policies, and the impact of the meetings in this age of globalisation.

By Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Jul 31 (IPS) - It was inevitable: Singapore had to bare the police state soul that lurks behind its modern steel-and-glass buildings and elegant shopping emporia. And who better to have as partner in crime than the World Bank.

China Times forced to apologize, provide compensation for printing story about a teenage girl orphaned by the virus.

   By Shakuntala Perera*

PHUKET, Thailand (Asia Media Forum) - The sea breeze is calm. The beaches are swarming with the young and the old. A year since Dec. 26, 2004 seems to have done a lot to remove the pain and the destruction. Or has it really?

   By Wahyuana

GALLE, Sri Lanka (Asia Media Forum) - For more than nine months now, S Dillum Sanjeewani, 29, has been living at the Seeb Rees temporary housing complex at Mahamodara in this district in southern Sri Lanka.

   By Fairus M Nur Ibrahim

CHENNAI, India (Asia 
Media Forum) - December  26, 2004 was just another day for Poungulai a mother of four who had stepped out of her house to fetch fresh drinking water for the family. 

CALLS for new stories for AMF's TSUNAMI SERIES: A Year Later

Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2005

News crews have long left the areas hit by the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami, but stories still need to be told about how communities are coping, where aid is going, what local initiatives are underway, how women and other groups are dealing with life afterwards, and societies perhaps forever changed by the disaster.

In keeping with its aim of encouraging consistent, local and relevant reporting, the Asia Media Forum is now accepting proposals for quality, in-depth stories from tsunami-hit countries and communities for a series to be published on the AMF website by the time of the December anniversary.