Taliban Militants have destroyed more than 30 schools in the Swat Valley of Pakistan in the past month. That’s according to the provinces Ministry of Education.

The region is home to radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who has called girls’ schools un-Islamic.

Hundreds of girls' schools have shut their doors and thousands of girls’ students have already quit schools.

Mudassar Shah reports from one school in the Swat Valley that has just been bombed.

Pakistan’s military says it has suspended its operations against Taliban militants in the Bajaur tribal area on the Afghan border.

The government says this suspension of fighting is in honour of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The announcement comes as a small relief to the hundreds of thousand of people who have already been displaced by the intense fighting.

Mudassar Shah reports from the temporary camps set-up to house them.

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To the Burmese military rulers she is an insurgent and a deserter.

To her patients Dr Cynthia Maung is a hero. She is the founder of a clinic in the Thai border town of Mae Sot that is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

In 1989, equipped with medicines and instruments she sterilized in a rice cooker, Dr Maung transformed a barn into a clinic to provide free treatment for the sick and wounded fleeing Burma’s oppressive regime.

Now more than 300 patients pass through this clinic every day.

For those who cannot get across the border they have a created a team of ‘back-pack medics’ who go into the jungle to reach those in need.

Rebecca Henschke speaks with these legendary health-workers.

More and more Burmese children are leaving their families and illegally crossing the border into Thailand in the hope of gaining an education.

The repressive Burmese military regime spends one of the lowest amounts of money on health care and education in the world.

Even basic education is very expensive.

So children as young as five are making the journey into Thailand in the hope of getting a free education at schools run by exiled Burmese.

Rebecca Henschke visits one such school in the border town of Mae Sot, where nearly 3,000 students are living and studying.

One year after Burma’s monks rose up against the military, Burmese youth have launched their first current affairs television program.

The program ‘Youth Speak’ is produced by the exiled station, the Democratic Voice of Burma or DVB, and broadcast via satellite from Thailand into the country.

During the September uprising it was young savvy bloggers who provided the world with images, video footage, and reports on what was happening inside restrictive Burma.

The new television program ‘Youth Voice’ aims to give this generation of guerilla reporters a voice. 

Rebecca Henschke went to see the producers at work in their studio in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.

One year after Burma’s monks rose up against the military, more and more of the people are fleeing to neighboring countries in search of work.

Some make the journey to gain political safety but most are doing it out of economic necessity.

Cyclone Nargis hit Burma at a time when inflation and unemployment were already at their highest levels in years. To make matters worse salt water covers many of the rice paddies making this year’s planting season impossible.

Survivors are forced to join the more than one million migrants already in Thailand.

Rebecca Henschke speaks with some of the new arrivals in the Thai border town of Mae Sot known as ‘Little Burma’.

Burma’s state-run media has strongly condemned media reports of the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis.

An article in a state daily accused “self-seekers” of faking video footage of the destruction - and foreign media of using it to harm Burma’s image.

Reports that survivors were living in dire conditions in the Irrawaddy Delta were exaggerated, it said.

The reality our Correspondent King Kong Janoi has seen and heard is very different.

The military junta has finally approved all pending visas for UN staff more than three weeks after Cyclone Nargis.

More foreign relief workers from other groups are also being permitted to enter the Irrawaddy Delta.

The UN estimates that more than two million people still need aid.

And as our correspondent King Kong Janoi reveals local relief workers are being arrested by the military for handing out aid.