New title Writing Asia: the Literatures in Englishes
Volume 1: From the Inside.
Asia-Pacific Literatures in Englishes
Editor Edwin Thumboo

About the Book
Half a century of English for educational, administrative, creative, and other purposes sees
the language secure and thriving

Singapore Book Club

At the first Book Club in 2009, we’ll be featuring Cultural Medallion recipient, Isa Kamari’s English translated work, One Earth.

Originally titled Satu Bumi in Malay, there is no fear of getting lost in translation here for Isa has remarked that the

PEN is stunned by the forty-five year prison sentence handed down on 21 November 2008 to poet and comedian Zargana in Burma. One of Burma’s most courageous defenders of the right to speak out against tyranny, Zargana is among a number of leading dissidents to have been sentenced in

DARMASISWA is a scholarship program offered to foreign students from
countries which have a diplomatic relationship with Indonesia.
Participants can study Bahasa Indonesia, arts, music and crafts and
choose one of 44 different universities located in different cities in
Indonesia.

国际笔会狱中作家委员会强烈抗议，异议作家、记者陈道军因其网络文章被以“煽动颠覆国家政权罪”判处有期徒刑三年。国际笔会认为，对陈道军的判罪侵犯了中国已签署的《公民权利与政治权利国际公约》第19条保障的自由言论权，并呼吁立即无条件释放他。