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India: The Invisible Farmer
By Zishaan Akbar Latif
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 18 January 2010
Stats: 7,731 views and 5 Comments

There is no respect economically or socially for farmers in India, they struggle to survive with dwindling finances dolled out by local governmental agencies at its disposal for grass root level farmers across the drought prone areas of Rajasthan, Bihar, Chattisgarh and the green belts of Punjab. While 64% of India is an agricultural based [...]

China: Changing Landscape
By Markel Redondo
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 11 January 2010
Stats: 998 views and No Comments

 
In the cities of Chongqing, Yichang and Wuham where the Yangtze River flows, people are caught in the middle of major transformations. These changes to their environment have left many displaced and disturbed. With the construction of The Three Gorges Dam, entire towns and cities have disappeared and new towns are emerging with no clear [...]

Cambodia: TB Crossroads
By Chhandak Pradhan
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 16 December 2009
Stats: 2,193 views and No Comments

The Kingdom of Cambodia is known for the incredible ruins of Angkor Wat and the brutal repression of the Khmer Rouge. A defunct healthcare system is a legacy from that era that ordinary Khmers still live with. While the country hobbles back to relative stability, thanks to an influx of foreign investment, much remains unachieved. [...]

Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Camp, Unregistered
By Jared Katz
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 5 October 2009
Stats: 3,722 views and 1 Comment

The Rohingya are not recognized as Burmese citizens by the ruling military junta. Widespread abuse, rape, and oppression have caused hundreds of thousands to flee and find refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. Today, over 27,000 of these refugees remain unrecognized by the Bangladeshi government as legal refugees, and are left largely unsupported with nowhere to go; [...]

Unveiling Women Behind Veils
By Laura El-Tantawy
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, features, greater middle east on 10 September 2009
Stats: 2,900 views and 1 Comment

All the way from India to the Middle East, women have traditionally adorned the veil, a sheer fabric to cover their hair and sometimes their face. While some wear it for purely traditional purposes, others will don it as a rite of passage when a girl grows from childhood to adulthood, as do women in [...]

India: Struggle, A Profession
By Zishaan Akbar Latif
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 30 August 2009
Stats: 2,311 views and 3 Comments

A man operates an ancient manual handloom in his makeshift house/warehouse where he produces raw cloth for further use that is transported to bigger cities from his village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. These men are paid a mere 2$s a day for being cheap daily wage labourers with which they are forced to feed [...]