Philippines sees shortfall in anti-viral drugs (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The Philippine health department on Friday said it needed two million dollars to fill a shortfall in supplies of an anti-viral drug as the country announced measures to fight any outbreak of swine flu.
Philippines had most displaced people in 2008: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The biggest new internal displacement of people last year was in the Philippines, where 600,000 fled fighting between the government and Muslim rebels, a United Nations-backed report said on Friday.
Indonesian graft-buster turns murder suspect (The Malaysian Insider)
JAKARTA, May 2 The head of Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency was yesterday named by the government as a suspect and a mastermind in a high-profile murder being investigated by the police an announcement that has shocked the country. Antasari Azhar, 56, who leads the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), is one of several suspects in the murder of company director Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, said …
Thai army protests Burma over stray shells which injured two Privates (The Nation – Thailand’s English news)
Thai army in Tak province protested against Burma on Wednesday after Burmese soldiers fired the 81-mm mortars into the Thai soil during their clashes with Karen National Union army.
Laos seeks clarification of Thai FM’s statements on Hmong (The Nation – Thailand’s English news)
Laos will seek clarification from Thailand over Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya’s statement that 158 Hmongs in a Nong Khai shelter were asylum seekers, Lao Foreign Ministry spokesman Khenthong Nouanthasing said Friday.
Indonesia seeks travel ban for corruption chief (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Indonesia’s attorney-general’s office has asked the immigration authorities to ban the head of the country’s anti-graft commission, Antasari Azhar, from leaving the country, a senior immigration official said on Friday.
US adds Canada, Indonesia, Algeria to copyright blacklist (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The United States on Thursday placed Canada, Indonesia and Algeria on a blacklist of intellectual property rights violators, joining nations such as China and Russia that were long branded copyright pirates.
Workers slam Philippine government on May Day (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Several thousand left-wing workers and their supporters demonstrated in Manila and other Philippine cities Friday to mark international labor day, demanding better jobs and higher wages, and blaming the president for deteriorating living conditions.
Man U to visit Indonesia for 1st time in 34 years (AP via Yahoo! News)
Manchester United will play in Indonesia for the first time since 1975 as part of the European champion’s offseason tour of Asia.
Cyclone trauma haunts survivors in Myanmar (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monsoon rains once heralded good things for Nwe Nwe, offering relief from the stifling heat and clean water for her family in Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta.
Homeless, in debt: Myanmar cyclone survivors struggle (CNN)
Debt problems and lack of credit. A housing crisis and a funding shortfall. These are not the problems of the Western world in the face of the global economic downturn, but some of the lingering challenges in Myanmar one year after devastating Cyclone Nargis hit the country, aid groups said.
Myanmar should release aid workers: rights groups (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Human rights groups on Friday urged Myanmar’s government to release more than 20 aid workers they said were imprisoned for making donations to cyclone victims and insulting authorities a year ago.
