Everything I Needed to Know About Survival, I Learned from a Computer Game
Games, and cartoons, boost youth disaster preparation.
IRIN
At Risk Because They Don't Exist
Two-thirds of children in South Asia are not registered at birth, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation.
IRIN
Take Three Pounds of Poverty
Philanthrocapitalism. Impact investing. Creative Capitalism. Call it what you will, social entrepreneurship is the new buzz phrase on the economic landscape that is turning water into wine, pig’s ears into silk purses and, yes, it promises to feed the multitudes. 
DAWN TAN
A Page Out of a Bygone Era
To demonstrate my sophistication and superior taste, I bought myself the “Book of Nothing”. A man-about-town had to be owning something funky and groovy…
YESHEY DORJI
Nepal: Paying the Price of Urbanisation
A health crisis is brewing as diseases such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease spread with urbanisation.
IRIN
Rambling in Jaffna: An Ode to the Past
A nostalgic writer and traveller revisits the city of Jaffna in Sri Lanka.
RASIKA JAVAKODY
Cox’s Bazar: A Day at the Seaside
Cox’s Bazar and the wide, sandy beaches of Bangladesh – one of the most visited destinations of the country
BANGLADESH UNLOCKED
Rickshaw Revolution
Financial whizzkid and founder of Samman Foundation, Irfan Alam, is riding high on the rickshaw revolution he started.
DAWN TAN
Bribes against Breastmilk
NGOs flay Nestlé’s infant formula marketing strategy in Laos
IRIN
Can You Empower Women with Cash?
Cash transfer programmes target women in belief that communities will benefit and men are irresponsible with money.
IRIN
In Nepal, Girls for Sale
No clear route out of servitude for indentured girls in Nepal.
IRIN
China: They Called Him “Ta Hoo Za”
“A cute little girl who was really inquisitive came closer and tried to remove it by hand.” Here’s an amusing story of a Pakistani and his beard in China.
AASEM BAKHSHI
In Pakistan, the Water Kills
Every year 250,000 children die from drinking unsafe water.
IRIN
US-Pakistani relations: Mutual BS*
A Pakistani writer looks at the ties between the two countries and decides to call it what it is.
KALSOOM
Oops, We Did It! Again!
India had sent Pakistan a list of 50 “most wanted” it said were hiding there. Then it turned out that two of the 50 were right there – in India itself.
PRO-KERALA.COM