Rice farmers go back to school in Myanmar's Kachin state
Field schools in Kachin state are teaching system of rice intensification (SRI) methods to increase yields for smallholder farmers but land tenure challenges remain
Indonesia’s worst kept secret laid bare in “The Act of Killing”
The massacre of at least half a million Indonesians believed to be communists nearly five decades ago was one of the country’s darkest episodes
International donors and Cambodia - where is the leverage?
Rights groups have urged donors repeatedly to withhold funds due to a crackdown on protests and activists and escalating land grabs and forced evictions.
When bad development happens to good people
Is there a happy medium between subsistence farming and low-paid labour for big business? In Cambodia, farmers-turned-low-paid labourers at plantations suffer higher food and job insecurity
School in Thailand provides haven for Burmese migrant children
Organised, funded and staffed by Burmese migrant workers, a primary school on the outskirts of Bangkok aims to both educate children and reduce child labour
Thai city makes business case for preparing for climate change
Hat Yai, a city in southern Thailand, is building up its resilience to worsening floods through better shared data and stronger links between the community, government and business
Thai man threatens ex-girlfriend with defamation for reporting abuse
Despite surveys showing high levels of domestic violence in Thailand, attitudes don’t seemed to have changed and this latest case is another sad example
Private sector and disaster risk reduction: Bedfellows after all?
There has been concern the private sector is dragging its feet on reducing the risks of disasters, but the tourism sector shows it is leading the charge
Gay Burmese refugees face daily discrimination and abuse in Thailand
Moses, a refugee from Myanmar, shares about the challenges faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexed community in Thai camps
PHOTOBLOG: The challenges of everyday life for refugee women and children in Thailand
For decades, tens of thousands of women and children from Myanmar have been living in refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border after fleeing war, persecution, human rights abuses and economic hardship