This is the second volume of national reports on elementary or primary school curriculum in Asia and the Pacific, resulting from a project sponsored by the National Institute for Educational Research (NIER) in Tokyo, Japan. It includes national reports for the following countries: New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam, and Western Samoa. Each national report summarizes the following information derived from a series of five questionnaires developed by NIER: (1) background information about the country, its educational system, the qualification and training of teachers, current educational research projects, and problems and issues; (2) integrated curriculum, including content, inputs, process, product, future prospects, and a summary; (3) moral/religious/values education, including the context, instructional process, evaluation and feedback, and problems and issues; (4) work-oriented education, including the context, instructional process, evaluation and feedback, and problems and issues; and (5) curriculum load, including a definition, concerns of teachers and parents, general assessment, problems, nature and amount of homework, and a summary statement and comment. (TE)