HANOI, Vietnam – Call it Thanh Tri Town Primary School’s greatest lightbulb moment yet. Since the school switched from incandescent bulbs to energy-efficient fluorescent lamps a few months ago, teachers like Nguyen Thi Thu Ha says she has been...

NEARLY a year after the costliest elections yet in Philippine history, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is finally taking steps to create a Campaign Finance Unit (CFU) that may be key in the effective enforcement of laws on electoral expenses and...

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) has condemned a terrorist attack directed against the Liberal Islam Network based in Jakarta, Indonesia, that indirectly involved one of SEAPA's founding members. An unidentified man delivered a bomb...

Filipino fans that have caught the Azkals fever have been disappointed over the details of the coverage of the Philippine national team’s games in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Challenge Cup qualifiers, which kick off today in Rangoon. The...

CHINA: Very Slowly, Attitudes are Changing Yang Guang, a sexual health instructor with the Shijingshan District Population and Culture School, talks to China Features’ Yu Fei* about the uphill job of taking about sexual and reproductive health to...

by Sutthida Mallikaew CHIANG MAI, Thailand, Mar 14 (IPS Asia-Pacific) – Tun Yo may not have known much about the ways of the world when he first came to work in one of the orange groves here seven years ago. After all, he was just a young boy of 14...

Posted with permission from the editors of SunStar Visayas assistant Ombud denies SALN report Wednesday, March 16, 2011 CEBU CITY (Updated 5:24 p.m.) -- A senior official of the Office of the Ombudsman defended herself Wednesday against a report...