Download To East Timor, where Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's CNRT party is moving towards forming a coalition government.

His party won the most seats in last weekend's election but not enough for a majority.

Last Sunday his party held a national conference to decide which parties to invite to be coalition partners.

The day ended with several violent incidents, mostly in the capital Dili.

Radio Australia’s Sara Everingham reports.

Download Rap music has come to Kashmir – and now it’s a voice for youth dissent.

‘Protest rap’ started two years ago, when thousands of Kashmiris demonstrated in the streets against India’s heavy military presence.

Now there are over a dozen renowned protest rappers in Kashmir, who have to perform in secret to avoid arrest.

Asia Calling’s Felix Gaedtke and Gayatri Parameswaran pick up the beat.

Download Pakistan’s trucks are unique – covered in paintings, ornaments, and carvings, they’re more like an art gallery rocketing down the road.

Truck art is a Pakistan tradition that started in the early 1920s.

Drivers were on the road up to six months at a time, living in their vehicles – so they made them beautiful.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the west is considered the birthplace of this art.

It’s full of tradition and skill – but now truck art is dying.

Mudassar Shah meets two artists in the provincial capital Peshawar.

Download South Korea’s Park Geun-hye says she’ll run to become the nation’s first female president in next December’s election – but is this a step forward for the country, or a step back?

She’s the daughter of the late military dictator President Park Chung-hee. Many credit him with  kick-starting Korea’s economic growth in the 1960s – but he also cracked down on civil rights and democratic freedoms.

Park still has to win her party’s nomination next month, - polling on likely presidential candidates show she’s in the lead.

But some say she’s going to have a tough time winning over progressive voters, and especially young women.

Jason Strother has more from Seoul.

Download Singapore's highest court has agreed to hear a case aimed at stopping the government from handing a 4 billion US dollars loan to the International Monetary Fund.

The application to the High Court has been filed by the leader of the opposition reform party.

Kenneth Jeyaretnam argues the move is unconstitutional because it wasn't approved by parliament and the president.

But the Singaporean authorities claim the constitutional question doesn't apply because they say the IMF loan doesn't come under the banner of government lending.

Girish Sawlani from Radio Australia has the report.

Download Malaysia’s Malacca state has been a cultural crossroads for centuries.

Its strategic location along one of the world’s busiest shipping routes made it a prize for merchants and colonists alike.

Cultures from across the world mixed here – and remain in local rituals.

That includes customs and religious beliefs around death.

Clarence Chua finds out just how Malaccans deal with their dead.

Download India has the highest number of child workers in the world – and 60 million of them don’t go to school.

India’s Constitution prohibits employing children under 14 years old.

But many of these kids earn desperately-needed income for their families - and almost no child is too young.

Jasvinder Sehgal meets 4-year old Arjun Ram, the breadwinner for his family.