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Finding Harmony Between Humans and Elephants
….How one non-profit organisation is encouraging alternative crops to reduce human–elephant conflict in Thailand.
Text Sarah Eichstadt
When elephants enter her farm, Roengrom “Rom” Amsamarng runs...
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Women of Gaza
As with all Palestinians in what is often described as the world’s largest open-air prison, life for the women of the Gaza Strip is choked with adversity.
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The Epitome of Contrasts: The final frontier of Asia
The Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the most remote regions from the population centres of Russia. For example, for people who live in Moscow it is cheaper to travel to Bali for two weeks than fly to Kamchatka. The time difference between Moscow and this peninsula is nine hours.
Kamchatka...
Plastic Pollution: Greenest Countries in Asia
By Terence Koh
Plastic pollution is one of the most challenging environmental problems afflicting the world today. With most of the fastest growing economies located in Asia, everyone is looking east to see what the region is doing to reduce plastic consumption and Asia’s plastic footprint. In conjunction with our...
Noble Bukhara
by Sophie Ibbotson & Max Lovell-Hoare (Photo by Robert Huberman/Superstock/Corbis)
Dating back more than 2,000 years, Bukhara, one of the best-preserved Islamic cities in Central Asia, boasts an urban fabric that remains largely intact.
When Genghis Khan led his marauding horde across the Central Asian steppe at the start of the...
Delivery Drones Are the New Postmen
Drones promise to be the future of consumer delivery in China, where large-scale trials are being carried out.
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Observing The New Uzbekistan
Central Asia's most populous nation Uzbekistan was voted for their leader. Around 20 million Uzbeks are eligible for an election on 9 July at...
Palm Progress
Can palm oil plantations and endangered rainforests really coexist? One conservationist says yes.
Text and images credit: Nathan Sen
The island of Borneo, divided among Malaysia,...
Above the Water: Sea Science
Text by Benjamin P.Horton
340 MILLION people are at risk of flooding from sea-level rise by 2050.
We know that rising sea levels affect every coastal...
The Gold Trap: How COVID-19 is pushing Filipino children into hazardous work
By Marielle Lucenio
The Philippines had been making slow progress in its long fight against child labour, but the pandemic reversed the gains that had...
A culture of silence blunts the impact of a new Vietnamese law against sexual...
By Trang Vu
Vietnam’s new labor law requires employers to put in place mechanisms to prevent and penalize sexual harassment in the workplace. But Vietnamese...
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The Road to Independence: Burma (1945 – 1962)
From the 1962 Democracy Protests, through the 1974 U Thant Crisis, the 1988 Uprising, and the 2007 Saffron Revolution, to the 2021 Spring Revolution, Myanmar has fought against the whims of its military leaders and suffered at the hands of the army. To make sense of the tumultuous events of the past six decades, we must understand the complex politics and power struggles that have dominated this country once known as Burma.
