As their governments aim for reform, CNA series Shifting Horizons explores how Indonesia, India and China plan to overcome ...

how best to ‘develop’ rural areas and rural people? This question is a particularly apt one to ask of Asia, the region of the world which has done most to drive the ‘rise of the South’ but where there ...

In 2005-6 she was a Fulbright scholar in China, researching non-governmental participation in rural China's social development. Your interest in Asia began with a movie, Beyond Rangoon, about a young ...

Consequently, the situation of the villagers who are left behind, and the preservation of these rural villages and their traditions, have become topics of global concern. Asia Blog reached out to Sun ...

An ST writer goes to Fang county in Hubei province in search of nian wei, or Chinese New Year spirit. Read more at ...

Almost 70 percent of employed women in South Asia and more than 60 percent of employed women in Sub-Saharan Africa work in agriculture [3]. The substantial involvement of rural women in ...

India will spend 860 billion rupees ($9.94 billion) on its flagship rural jobs guarantee programme in the next financial year ...