POVERTY
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As Indonesia’s rural poor are increasingly threatened by dispossession, is it time to adopt a more radical agenda for women and the environment?
REBECCA ELMHIRST
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Illegal squatters in Jakarta struggle for recognition of their homes and livelihoods.
LUKAS LEY
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More than 1 million cases of parents selling their children into slavery or forced marriages in Pakistan, and in one instance, for a bag of flour.
IRIN
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Thazin was sold into marriage in China but managed to escape. She’s not alone – 70% of Myanmar’s trafficking cases last year involved stories like hers.
IRIN
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Chickpea goes to the rescue of children in Pakistan, who are suffering “critical levels” of malnutrition after the devastating floods of 2010.
IRIN
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Family pressures in Lao exacerbate trafficking.
IRIN
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Are you able to perceive abundance? This is the second of three blog posts that attempts to address a simple, yet profound question.
DEBBY NG
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Is poverty a state of mind or can it be quantified? This is the first of three blog posts that attempts to address a simple, yet profound question.
DEBBY NG
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The heaving metropolis of Mumbai is the Indian city of dreams, but in this realm of dreams exist nightmares, too.
NAINA SHARMA
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What, or how long, does it take you to buy a property in China? This MTV has the answers.
KEY
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Chinese celebrity blogger and TIME magazine’s No. 2 most influential person, Han Han, on the tragedy of the recent Foxconn suicides.
Staff Writer
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One of the most common scenes on Indian trains are men with their belongings on their backs, heading out to the big cities in search of a better life. Many of them come from the state of Bihar, where moving miles away from home for work is the only way for their families to simply subsist at home. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
KARISHMA VASWANI
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