Focus

By Munza Mushtaq

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia — Air pollution, the silent killer, eradicating thousands around the world, is killing at least half a million in the Asian region alone, with increased trends in urbanisation and motor vehicle use being identified as the key culprits for the worsening conditions.

By Lynette Lee Corporal

BANGKOK, Dec 19 (IPS) - Painful reminders and sources of healing - this is the paradox that characterises the photographs that 144 young tsunami survivors took during their two-year journey toward healing.

By Lynette Lee Corporal

Ten-year-old tsunami survivor and photography workshop participant Udomporn Klatalay finds hope amid the destruction.

BANGKOK (Asia Media Forum) - If a picture paints a thousand words, then the stark images from the photographs of a tsunami survivor certainly speak volumes.

At the InSIGHT Out! Creative Workshop and Exchange for Youth in Aceh and Thailand photo exhibit that ran for a month at a shopping mall in the Thai capital, 129 children ages eight to 18 tell the world their personal, very painful stories in the aftermath of the Dec. 2004 tsunami that struck many parts of Asia and killed more than 186,000 people, with still 42,883 missing, from Indonesia to Somalia.

   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.