Download Burma has recently been thrust into the international spotlight.

Following the landslide victory of the National League for Democracy in the April by-election and Aung San Suu Kyi finally taking a seat in parliament – Burma is being hailed as Asia’s newest democracy.

But the government continues to limit the public, and sometimes political, activities of Burma’s Buddhist monks.

After the 2007 Saffron Revolution, monks must now obtain government permission to give a public speech – including details of its content.

Prominent monk Ashin Pyinnyar Thiha is banned from giving any speeches and was recently evicted from his monastery in Rangoon.

Citra Dyah Prastuti travels to Hmaw-Bi Township on the outskirts of Rangoon to meet him.

Download It’s more than a decade since the Taliban was ousted from power in Afghanistan.

Women and girls have since returned to work and school but for many, huge challenges to their freedom remain.

No more than in the eastern province of Nangarhar, where Afghan men treat their wives like commodities – buying and selling them as they please.

Our correspondent Ghayor Waziri travels to the tribal region in the country’s east to find out more.

Download In many parts of the world, May is the month for mothers.

But in South Korea, there’s also a special day for single mothers, unwed women who raise their children solo.

Being a single mom is tough – but in South Korea it brings shame upon the entire family.

Many children born out of wedlock are kept secret and adopted overseas.

But the adoptees are now returning home to find their birth mothers and are working to curb the prejudice single mothers still face.

Jason Strother has the story from Seoul.

Download 12 years ago, five men were killed in Pathribal Village in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Official reports stated that military officers were caught in a gun fight and had blown up the hut where the five men were hiding.

The bodies were buried without any post-mortem examination.

But after a five-year investigation, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court the fight was staged and had resulted in the deaths of five innocent villagers, not militants as originally claimed.  

Following the court ruling, the Indian Army is under pressure to try its officers in a military or civil court.

As Bismillah Geelani reports, the case also sheds new light on a draconian Indian law that grants military officers legal impunity.

Download For the first time in history, Malaysia has set a minimum wage – expected to benefit 3.2 million workers in the country.

It was announced earlier this month and was celebrated by Malaysian workers, especially those on low wages in rural areas.

But some 80 percent of these industries could go out of business under the new salary structure.

Is Malaysia in danger of going bankrupt? Clarence Chua has more.

Download 134 Pakistani soldiers and civilians were buried under heavy snow during an avalanche on Siachen glacier this April.

Siachen glacier is the highest battlefield on earth – where India and Pakistan have fought over the disputed region of Kashmir for decades.

But more troops die from bad weather than warfare.

People in both countries say it’s time the futile conflict is resolved.

Naeem Sahoutara has the report.

Download In the Philippines, summer vacation is at its peak but some students in a handful of impoverished Manila neighbourhoods are busy going to "street school" thanks to a pilot program of the education system.

The "pushcart classroom" brings school to street kids complete with school supplies, tables and chairs, a hot meal and a host of volunteers.