<< Previous page The State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008 is a regional edition of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 2008 report.
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The State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008 urges all governments, international agencies, non-government organizations, civil society and the private sector not to take for granted the recent gains but instead "consolidate and deepen" them by extending critical health services.
In this year's State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008, UNICEF says it is a "fundamental truth" that unless India achieves major improvements in health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education, gender equality and child protection, global efforts to reach the MDGs will fail.
The State of Asia-Pacific's Children 2008 Publication year: 2008 Publisher UNICEF East Asiaa & Pacific Languages: English The report underscores a disturbing trend across the region: public health expenditure remains well below the world average on 5.1 per cent, with South Asia spending only 1.1 per cent of GDP and 1.9 per cent being spent in the rest of Asia-Pacific.
He has held an array of diplomatic posts, including United States ambassador to the United Nations and ambassador to Germany, and he was twice an assistant secretary of state, for East Asia and for Europe.
The diplomat, Kurt M. Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, also urged Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to hold behind-the-scenes talks with South Korea to defuse a separate territorial dispute as well as disagreements over history that have driven a wedge between the two countries, the United States' two closest allies in the region.
Under the original deal worked out by some of Mrs. Clinton's top officials, including Gary Locke, the United States ambassador to China, and Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, Mr. Chen was to move from his provincial home to a big city, probably Tianjin, to study law.
The Bali Democracy Forum was attended by a dozen heads of state from the Asia-Pacific region, and observers from the US and Western European states, including the UK.
Elizabeth Olson (NYT) ASIA INDONESIA: STATE OF EMERGENCY President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a civil state of emergency in the eastern islands of Maluku, where violence between Christians and Muslims has killed scores of people in the last week and thousands over the last 18 months.
The Out-of-Asia scenario may have been complex.
