IPS Asia-Pacific

Climate Change: A Reporting Lens from Asia

 BANGKOK - IPS Asia-Pacific (www.ipsnewsasia.net) is seeking contributions from Asian journalists for its series on climate change ('Climate Change: A Reporting Lens from Asia' in the Asian development context, with deadline for story applications on 20 March 2012. While stories on climate change hog the headlines when global summits about them are underway, the impact of climate change and ways of coping with it continues...

WANTED: Good Development Stories around ASEAN

BANGKOK -Do you have a good ASEAN story to tell?Inter Press Service (IPS) Asia-Pacific (www.ipsnewsasia.net), in partnership with the ASEAN Studies Centre (www.aseanstudiescentre.org) and with the supported of the International Development Research Centre (www.idrc.ca), is inviting journalists to submit creative, original ideas for proposals for in-depth features on development issues around the Association of South-east Asian Nations...

Q & A: ‘Publishing Books Isn’t Like Making Instant Noodles’

The book publishing process can be tedious and take years, test the patience of author, editor and publisher, and involve concerns ranging from how interesting the topic is to the weight...

Those Big Fat Pakistani Weddings

Zofeen T Ebrahim
KARACHI — The questions ‘Who are you wearing?’ and ‘Who is doing your wedding?’ may be construed by the uninitiated as bending the syntax of modern English a...