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The SAJA Reporting Fellowship helps reporters finance stories out of South Asia. This year's applicants are under review, but here are some past highlights. Anup Kaphle's photo is of a Nepalese Gurkha, fighting in Afghanistan. View a video of the story by Kaphle and Atlantic Reporter Graeme Wood.

SAJA will provide a total of $5,000 to award internship stipends to three students. Deadline is May 31, 2009.

SAJA will award four reporting grants this year for stories reported from Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and India.

SAJA calls for entries for its 2009 Journalism Awards. Please take a look and enter or pass along to friends who might be interested in entering.

SAJA board re-elects Sandeep Junnarkar as president and elects Aparita Bhandari, a Canadian journalist, as vice president and chair of SAJA's 15th Anniversary and International Convention; board begins work for 2009.

At its annual meeting Dec. 4, the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) elected members for the 2009-2010 SAJA Board of Directors.

SAJA Group was awarded a $15,000 Challenge Grant Fund by The Ford Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and the McCormick Foundation. Help SAJA match the grant by donating!

Umar Cheema, reporter for the News International in Islamabad, Pakistan, is the 2008 Daniel Pearl Fellow at The New York Times.

Many thanks to all who made the 2008 SAJA Convention and Job Fair was a great success! You can view convention photographs by Preston Merchant. See full coverage of the convention at SAJAforum.org/convention.

This award offers winners the unique opportunity to attend the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists on a scholarship. Watch for mid-summer deadline for 2009.