| The winner for this
year’s cycle of the SEAMEO-Australia Press
Award is Ms Karen
Yap Lih Huey, a Malaysian who
is the assistant editor of the Bangkok-based Asian News Network,
a network of 14 newspapers across Asia. Her article, “A
Lost Generation across Asia’s
War Zones,” appeared in the
Jakarta Post and the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It tells the
quest of Burmese refugee children for some form of education
in Thailand and Thailand’s response to
their plight. A total of 10 entries,
mostly serial stories, from Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand and the Socialist Republic
of Vietnam are reviewed by
the committee.
Ms Jan Gough-Watson,
counselor for education, science and training of the Australian
Embassy, headed the committee with three journalists:
1. Ms Johanna
Son, Regional Editor
and Regional Director,
Inter Press Service Asia Pacific, with headquarters in Bangkok
2. Mr Ian Williams, President, Foreign
Correspondents Club of Thailand
3. Mr Kavi Chongkittavorn,
columnist and assistant group editor, The Nation
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Plague of Recognition
The 2006 SEAMEO-Australia Press Awardee, Ms Karen Yap Lih Huey, assistant editor of the Asia News Network, Bangkok, accepts the plaque of recognition from Ms Susan Bennet, Branch Manager, International Cooperation Branch of the Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia, and Prof Dr Bambang Sudibyo, Minister of National Education, Indonesia, and SEAMEO Council President, during the 42ndSEAMEO Council Conference on 13-15 March 2007 in Bali, Indonesia. |
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