Malaysia: Tuition Raids Affect Students

The tuition schools in Malaysia are experiencing a clampdown as Malaysian police stake out, harass and intimidate tuition teachers.
Recent reports of police raids and harassment have caused teachers to back out and go back in the said schools. This has affected the performance of students in schools.
You can read a news report in the news [...]

Call for Solidarity: International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

The Asian Students Association is calling on all its members and friends to express support and solidarity to the oppressed survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
They are calling justice and restitution from the Bush government who continues to criminally neglect their plight.
An International Tribunal is scheduled on the 29th of August until September 2nd, 2007.
They [...]

Filipino students to senate: Regulate tuition, Probe higher educ head

The National Union of Students of the Philippines, a national alliance of student unions, councils and governments in the country and a member of the Asian Students Association, has demanded government authorities to look into the government policies and circulars that have caused the unabated increase in tuition and school fees in universities and colleges.
Together [...]

Stop military harassment, intimidation and vilification of student and youth organizations

Students and youth organizations in the Philippines, some of whom are members of the ASA, have called for an urgent action appeal against they have experienced harassment, intimidation and vilification from the Philippine military.
Early this year, the Armed Forces of the Philippines has started deploying platoons of military personnel all over Metro Manila, the major [...]

Surface Jonas Burgos

Below is a video made by a multi-media group Southern Tagalog Exposure on Jonas Burgos, a Filipino activist who was abducted by suspected elements of the Philippine military inside a department store on April 28, 2007.
Burgos is one of the many victims of enforced disappearances under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s regime. Many of these enforced disappearances [...]

Stop Crackdown on Refugees in Malaysia

Another crackdown in Malaysia ensued as Myanmese refugees registered with the UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency) in the said country were arrested and treated inhumanely by elements of the Malaysian police.
The Myanmar Ethnic Rohingyas Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM), a friend organization of ASA members in both Thailand and Burma, has released a statement exposing [...]

Petition: Return Varosha to Its Lawful Owners

Famagusta, Varosha in Cyprus is now a ghost town.
According to the Cypriot Young Scientists Organisation (CYSO-ISCHYS), its inhabitants were displaced from the city after the Turkish government took over the land through military invasion during the summer of 1974.
Wielding the International Law and respect for human rights, the CYSO-ISCHYS is leading a signature drive calling [...]

Petition: Ensure the Survival of a Sustainable Farming Community in Central Mindanao

400 hectares of farm lands. 800 rice farming families.
They are the target possible casualties if the Central Mindanao University administration decides to lease out the said lands to big agri-businesses to produce cash crops.
On previous occasions, the administration has responded violently to protesting farmers and their supporters by dispersing mass actions and forcing the farmers [...]

The 51 Smuggled Filipinos in Iraq: A U.S. Senate Hearing

A few days ago, media outfits exposed the “smuggling” of 51 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Iraq to work on the US$600 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. From the news, the OFWs knew that they would be flying to Dubai to either work as telephone repairman or construction worker somewhere else.
Below is a testimony of [...]

Commemorating 19 Years of the Democracy Uprising in Burma

Commemorating the 19th year of the Democracy Uprising in Burma (Myanmar), The 88 Generation Students issued a statement expressing their grave discontent with the 1974 Constitution which led to several tragedies in the country.
The Democracy Uprising happened on the 8th of August, 1988, hence it is called 8888.
The dictatorship that once led the nation as [...]