Regional overview

Regional overview

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region Map

UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Region Map

Country overview

Country overview

 

Highlights from UNICEF country offices, 2008

The following highlights news in 2008 from UNICEF country offices:

CHINA

• China's progress on reducing child mortality highlighted, but reduction slowing down

CAMBODIA

INDONESIA

• 100 schools complete, 191 more under construction in Aceh and Nias
• Call to action to stop the use of breastmilk substitutes in emergencies
• Innovative methods bring quality schooling to poor children in Indonesia
• UNICEF cautions against the abolishment of mandatory wheat flour fortification in Indonesia

KOREA, DPR

 

LAO PDR

• UNICEF Executive Board members visit child friendly school in northern Lao PDR
• UNICEF Executive Board members discuss children’s issues with senior government officials
• Lao PDR suffers first cholera outbreak in nearly eight years

MALAYSIA

• Promoting a passion for reading on remote Malaysian islands
• Pilot effort provides an early warning system for autistic children in Malaysia
• Raising HIV awareness one conversation at a time

MONGOLIA

 

MYANMAR

 

PACIFIC ISLANDS

• Improved sanitation often overlooked in child development plans

PAPUA NEW GUNIEA

 

PHILIPPINES

 

THAILAND

• Call it Photo Therapy!
• Schools that work for children

TIMOR-LESTE

• Volunteers help bridge the gap between rural communities and their health centres in Timor-Leste

VIET NAM

• Viet Nam seeks to tackle issue of equity in health care for women and children
• Why do so few ethnic minority girls make the transition to lower secondary school?
• Disparities threaten Viet Nam’s progress in child survival