South+and+Southeast+Asia

=The Savviest of the Asias=

An ambiguous area, it's usually defined as the region South of China but North of Indonesia, and East of Afganistan. The area is predominantly Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist, but Christianity is also popular. The region has a history of spices, silks, and Tech Support. There has been some instability in the area, as evidenced by the recent coup where Burma turned to Myanmar.

A Little About These Austronesian Folk and Globalization
====Globalization can lead to stronger world economies, increased response to natural disasters and pandemics, and a closer connection between people all over the world. It can also lead to the destruction of individual communities, the exploitation and colonisation of less developed nations, and complications in international relations. It seems that globalization is helping South and Southeast Asia at this point in time. True, for the first half of the century it was mostly exploitation and slave labor, but now it's mostly just the slave labor. With the outsourcing of jobs to third world countries in the area, along with the move of large corporate headquarters to more profitable areas, has driven a rise in the standard of living. Although life is getting better for the region, it still isn't up to the standards of the Western world, but the gap is getting smaller and smaller.==== 

=Energy=

=South Asian countries need help to develop clean renewable energy: the alternative is increased global warming and pollution=

This Artical Explains The Situation South-South east asian banks are in. Especially the Singapore Banks. They are All in a great postion because their Economy is relativly more stable than our own because theyw ill always have an income because of the currency exchange. They currently have the best growth as compared to any other international or national banks. They have a lowered Growth Rate this year but despite this they have a great growth rate considering the state which the banks are in all over the world.

1st Paragraph of Article which summarizes Problems and Possible Solution The 1.4 billion people of South Asia are singularly deficient in energy, particularly clean energy. Low per capita consumption of energy is an indicator and a cause of poverty in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal. While South Asia is home to more than 20% of the world’s population its energy consumption is only 7%. Nevertheless, satellite pictures reveal a disturbing column of haze and smoke extending from Bangladesh all the way to Pakistan. This is believed to be caused by smoke from wood fires used for cooking. Indoor pollution is major source of respiratory diseases among mothers and children. Another adverse consequence is the severe deforestation in South Asia which is believed to have made the summers and winters drier and hotter.

Link : http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2214684-south-asian-countries-need-help-to-develop-clean-renewable-energy-the-alternative-is-increased-global-warming-and-pollution
=Environment=

**Singapore: Water Over Their Heads** Singapore has a problem. This problem has to do with water, namely, that they are going to be under a lot of it. With increasing global temperatures and water levels, Singapore, a mainly low lying city, fears for its future survival. With this problem brought to the forefront of public attention by the recent tsunamis, Singapore is taking a lead in environmental reform. Progress in the field is blocked by several developing countries which do not wish to curtail industrialization for environmentalism. Although Singapore is funding research and development in the area of clean energy, the situation looks grim as energy trends have not changed since around the 1990s. Regardless, progress is being made in public transport and urban planning, with both Singapore and Bangkok reducing emissions through efficient street planning and increased light rail usage.

In any case, Singapore hopes that its example sets a standard for the rest of the region so that one day citizens of Singapore can go about their daily lives without having to evolve gills.

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=Environment/Technology=

**http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/world/asia/04space.html?ref=asia**
===**__Scientist Cashing In For Years!!!! Finally Got Caught__ Recently in September there was some contaminated milk that killed 4 babies and as many as 60,000 people were sickened with other diary products. The contamination was caused by melamine that had some how gotten into to diary products though used for other foods. Before this incident some of china's scientist were hooking up with companies to add melamine to control the protein levels in food. At the moment a ton of melamine is only worth 600-800 yuan (600 yuan is 87090.06 U.S. dollars) though when it is used to make protein supplements it is raised to 4,000 yuan. Instead of scientist going to jail or court China is just regulating the input of melamine in foods. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/Jk14Ad01.html **=== = = =INDIA ON THE VERGE OF WATER CRISIS=

====This article is about how India is on the verge of a water crisis. This is primarily the result of one of the weakest monsoons in over 3 decades. So right now the prices of food in India are skyrocketing and people are having to change the way they live. While the situation is not dire yet scientists are worried about another failed monsoon which would make the people and farmers of desperate. So this is going to something interesting to watch in the coming months to see if the situation gets better or worse and if it gets worse how bad it gets.====

After completing a Newstrust article this week I understood just how important the ports in Asia are. Many of these ports are the sole reason Asian countries have stable economies at times.

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=Economy=

__Economy of India__

The economy of India has been booming over the past decade. In fact in each year of the last decade the economy of India has grown at least 7%. This booming of India is rather recent in that only a few decades ago the economy of India was small and struggling. However very recently the economy of India has faced some troubles just like every other economy in the world. Even though the Indian economy is facing troubles by no means is it in the worst possible situation. So India is an example to look at that is rather new and is more focused on newer technologies.

Summary of Indian Economy: http://www.economywatch.com/indianeconomy/indian-economy-overview.html

__Economy of China__

The economy of china is facing some changes in the way that they usually operate in the last 59 years. This is because they are experiencing increased temperature that has caused them to loose many crops that they use to try and feed their country. Since they already had to export/import for enough food their industrial production increased by 18.5%.

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=478048&story_id=15331229

=Trade=

Southeast Countries Exporting goods to China

Many of the countries in Southeast Asia will begin to have the chance to export many more goods. This is because of China coming out and saying that they plan on importing more goods. So many of the countries in this area will benefit from this because of how close China is to them. The one country who will really benefit from China wanting to import more goods is India. At this point in time India is importing more than it exports and India exporting more things to China would help to level that off. Right now china is the place countries want to be exporting goods simply because there are many consumers and China actually has money.

Southeast Countries pet trade

COuntries in the south east are trading all of their animals away from their forest. They are nearly rivaling the drug trade within their countries. At this point they are exporting monkeys, turtles,butterflies, and etc. They are literally emptying out their forest with all of the illegal pet trade, this is a great to the animals than global warming and habitat deforestation. 35 million animals were traded legally with hundreds of millions traded illegally consisting of mostly sea-horses and reptiles.

http://www.traffic.org/recent-coverage/monkeys-butterflies-turtles-how-the-pet-trades-greed-is-empt.html

=Health=

Health in India

http://www.bolohealth.com/news/2796-drop-in-swine-flu-cases-may-be-due-to-summer

Many of us think of Swine flu as a problem that is only affecting the United States and Mexico. That, however, is not the case. India is also have a problem the disease popping up. Right now the number of people has slowed but it is still a major issue. It is a story that does not get talked about much because of it happening here in the US but it is just a bad in other areas with one of them being India.

=Security and Terrorism=

India - Pakistan Relationship

India and Pakistan have a rocky relationship because of Pakistan's supporting of terrorism. They support terrorism because it is almost like a defense for Pakistan from India. The people of India are not in support; which makes the relationship a bit awkward. As this article points out for there to be peace in this area one of the things that needs to be done is Pakistan and India need to come to peace. If this is done then Pakistan wont need to support the terrorism and lead to less terrorism in this area.

Article - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/faiz-lalani/india-must-make-peace-wit_b_530678.html

= **Vietnam Rebuffs Hacking Claims From Google** =

Business relationship between Vietnam and Google

Article-http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/193526/vietnam_rebuffs_hacking_claims_from_google.html

State officials killed in India - security

Ten state officials of Orissa were killed in a bus. This was done by some maoist guerillas. They were heading to a road to unblock it. As they were arriving on their buses a land mind went of killing ten jawans and. four of them being injured. In reaction it ended in a short gun fight.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Ten_security_personnel_killed_by_Maoists_in_Orissa,_India

=Education=

[[image:20080620223533!Classroom_in_India.jpg width="390" height="276"]]
media type="youtube" key="-_RBH5On8wo" height="344" width="425" Education in Thailand has been improving in the past years. Thailand is one South Asia leading countries in the educations department for it people. Their use of tenchnology has been one of the main factors on improving their education system.

Education in Mindanao ( Which is in the Philippines) is improving drastically. Over the years, education in Mindanao has been doing very poorly, but as of April 2010, The government and tons of international organizations are chipping in financially to support construction and repair of the education system in Mindanao. The children of Mindanao have a lot to look forward to in the near future.



Vietnam: These are kids from Vietnam learning to write in a classroom, there has been a recent problem in this area because some children that do not learn to write before going to actual school are being left behind and being unable to write in school.

Development in Thailand:



Thailand has been very successful so far in 2010 where developing buildings and fixing neighborhoods are concerned. They have a building act that has been passed and continuously revised since 1992.

Development in Vietnam: Over Vietnam's history several natural disasters have happened in Vietnam that probably have effected Vietnam's development as a country. I found a slide show that depicts these disasters, you can view it [|here].

__**Development in Pakistan**__ media type="youtube" key="E4Vm-ri_qLY" width="425" height="350" Pakistan has been more concern about usage of water in the regoin. In the past years they have trying to improve water sources from 70% to 90%. Base on the conflict that has been going on around the region and money problem, things are not working out as they had planned it. Pakistan is one of the stressful country in the world.


 * __Another language dies in India:__**

Something that is very important in culture is language. In India, Boa Sr (which was the last speaker of Bo) passed away. This takes away from the culture of the language in itself, because if no one is alive to speak the language, there is no knowledge of it. Thus, killing some of the culture.

__**Cambodia Cultural Dance**__s Cultural dances are very important aspect in the Cambodian society. Cultural dance are use for almost everything; it use in parades, ritual, new years, births, marriages, good crops, seasonal and sacrifices. In this classical piece, "The Blessing Dance" flower petals are tossed gently from small silver or gold trays as a way of blessing the audience and the event. It is a very popular dance, and it mostly use for New Years, and ceremonial.

Vietnam Social Culture: This is McCurry a store in Vietnam I guess its supposed to be a version of McDonalds over there but you can also see a pepsi vending machine in the background on the right so you can see there are different american cultures in Vietnam.

=UN DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS=

Article 4.

 * No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Like the rest of the world countries in South and South east Asia does a poor job of upholding the UN's thirty human rights. The right to freedom is not always granted in some of these countries. People are not being enslaved in the tradition way that it was done between the Europeans and Africans however, it slavery is still existent in our world. There are multiple forms of slavery. Everyday children are being subjected to work in sweat shops and they are being subjected to child prostitution. South and South East Asia is a very vulnerable area in terms of activities such as child prostitution. There are numerous countries in this area where child prostitution is a problem. This[| link] provides information about all of the countries where child prostitution is a problem and to what extent. 'Historians will look back in puzzlement at the way our 21st century world tolerates the slavery of more than a million children in brothels around the world.' - Nicholas D. Kristof, January 22, 2006

__**Human Trafficking in Thailand**__ In Thailand, women are kidnapped and used as tools for sex. People can buy and sell them, and it's literally slavery, and according to the UN, the freedom from slavery is a right all humans should have.

=Women Oppression=


 * CEDAW in the Philippines**
 * Made a publication that is a collection of stories of how the UNIFEM CEDAW Southeast Asia Programme partners in the Philippines have brought life to CEDAW to advance gender equality in the Philippines.
 * Is an organization that also helps other parts of the world as well as the Philippines.
 * The program, with support from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), worked with a wide range of actors in government
 * they want to help create executive, legislature and judiciary, organized women’s groups, schools and media, to change legislations, to fight discriminatory practices, to open doors for women to access justice and more.
 * The stories demonstrate what it means to “implement CEDAW” and highlight lessons learned and good practices which may be replicated not just in the Philippines but in other similarly situated countries as well.

There are multiple gender issues that plague the women in South and South East Asia. In general, women are more oppressed than man and there are some cases where women are seriously mistreated. Women are victims of sex trafficking, are denied an education in some countries and are not allowed to leaders. In a lot of countries in South and South East Asia, women are treated in a Indian caste system type of women. If this be the case, women would be the untouchables. Women are also oppressed and discriminated by their mode of dressing.
 * Treatment of Women**

http://newstrust.net/stories/1853271/toolbar?ref=mp

Modern China has become a contradiction of itself as far as women's rights go. While they often hold many high positions in the medicinal and business fields, they are still under the thumb of male dominance. China is ruled by the Communist Party, a party in which few women do not hold positions. "China is still a very traditional society. Women have heavy family responsibilities, while men have more room to interact with society," said Qin Wenjing, a children's book publisher.