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An Indian vegetable vendor, an SKS Microfinance loan recipient, manages her stall in a village near the city of Ahmedabad. Microsavings programs are bringing the benefits of thrift even to the poorest of the poor. Photo: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images

Microsavings programs build wealth, pennies at a time

by Ylan Q Mui Washington Post March 15, 2013

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Veteran Burmese activist Win Tin says democracy icon Suu Kyi is too conciliatory toward the military

by Simon Denyer Washington Post March 13, 2013

RANGOON, Burma — For most of two decades, while Aung San Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest, her deputy Win Tin was condemned to solitary confinement in prison, denied even pen and paper by his jailers....

A flurry of fires in Bangladesh raise concerns over garment-worker safety

by Jason Motlagh Washington Post March 1, 2013

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Clashes over land seizures batter the police in Myanmar

by Thomas Fuller New York Times February 28, 2013

BANGKOK — When angry villagers clashed with security forces on Tuesday over land seizures in Myanmar, the police apparently got the worst of it....

Farm workers remove weeds from young plants at the palm oil plantation owned by Karuturi Global, near the town of Bako, in Ethiopia. Photograph: Jose Cendon/Getty Images

Indian investors are forcing Ethiopians off their land. Thousands of Ethiopians are being relocated or have already fled as their land is sold off to foreign investors without their consent.

by John Vidal The Guardian February 6, 2013

Ethiopia's leasing of 600,000 hectares (1.5m acres) of prime farmland to Indian companies has led to intimidation, repression, detentions, rapes, beatings, environmental destruction, and the imprisonment of journalists and political objectors, accord...

The right to food in Bangladesh

IRIN News January 22, 2013

DHAKA, 22 January 2013 (IRIN) - NGOs in Bangladesh are pushing for a constitutional amendment to guarantee the legal right to access food, or a food security “framework law” that will hold the state liable for any scarcity....

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