ASF confce begins in Hyderabad

A week-long conference of the Asian Social Forum (ASF), a regional platform to redress adverse effects of globalisation, begins in Hyderabad, India today. Seventeen delegates from the People's Health Movement (PHM), Bangladesh, a non- government organisation, are taking part in the conference. They include AHM Nouman, chairperson of the PHM, Fakhrul Ferdous, Kamal Uddin Ahmed and Samia Afrin.

The outcome of the conference would be placed before the World Social Forum to be held at Porte Allegre in Brazil during the first week of February next.