Asia

Evicted and unhappy, a protester in Phnom Penh in January 2012 Photo: Phuong Tran/IRIN

Cambodia: Rural poor lose out on land deals

by IRIN News October 4, 2012

Land governance policies in Asia, especially concessions made to private companies, are leaving the region’s poorest vulnerable to human rights abuses, experts say....

WFP plans to fortify wheat in Afghanistan to address widespread malnutrition. Photo: Heba Aly/IRIN

Afghanistan: How do you tackle widespread malnutrition in a poor, corrupt country at war?

by IRIN News October 4, 2012

Despite billions of dollars in aid over the last decade, Afghanistan’s malnutrition rates have soared, now well-past emergency thresholds, with one-fifth of children malnourished overall; one-third of children acutely malnourished in some conflict ...

Land disputes in Cambodia focus ire on Chinese investors

by Andrew Higgins Washington Post September 26, 2012

HNOM PENH, Cambodia — When China’s President Hu Jintao visited Cambodia this year, Tep Vanny, a 32-year-old housewife fighting eviction from her family home in central Phnom Penh, set off down Mao Tse-Tung Boulevard to try to deliver a plea for h...

Coal lease scandal poses a riddle: will India ever be able to tackle corruption?

by Vikas Bajaj and Jim Yardley New York Times September 15, 2012

NEW DELHI — His business rivals never fully understood how Manoj Jayaswal got so rich so fast, except that he often seemed joined at the hip with powerful politicians. He hosted them at lavish parties, entertained them at his daughter’s opulent T...

A child’s height was measured after he was rescued from garment factory labor in New Delhi in June. Labor laws affecting children are often not enforced, due to corruption, one of several ways in which corruption diminishes poor childrens’ lives. Photo: Kevin Frayer/Associated Press

How corruption affects the poor children of India

by Sonia Faleiero New York Times September 15, 2012

MEENA DEVI is only 10 years old, but she’s the head of her household. She cooks, cleans and takes care of her 11-year-old brother, Sunil, while a 14-year-old brother, Anil, works at a faraway brick kiln in a neighboring state. The three have been o...

Asia’s Economic Crisis

by September 7, 2012

There is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to explaining the cause of the economic meltdown that has many Asian countries in its grip. On the global level, the economic policies espoused by the United States, the World Trade Organization (WT...

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