FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Conflict over land tenure in Southeast Asia’s rural areas has emerged as a key issue for the region. To achieve goals such as economic development and poverty reduction in rural areas, […]
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Vietnam has the highest urbanization rate in Southeast Asia. Just a decade ago, only 24% of its population lived in cities, with 65% of the labor force employed in rural agriculture. […]
ASIAWATCH — Phnom Penh is waving in investors who buy up massive plots, forcing locals out of their homes and into gruelling, low-paid factory jobs. And as a recent conference on the problem made clear, […]
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Last month, about 200 farmers from three townships in rural Yangon did something that was until very recently impossible in Burma: they staged a legal protest, demanding that their land, confiscated […]
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — In fast-developing Phnom Penh, land is at a premium, and it’s the poor who pay the price for high-end development. It is not a new story. Around 250,000 Cambodians were evicted from […]
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