Login to TopLink

Rina Chandran focuses on land and property rights for place, and other humanitarian issues at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, based in Mumbai. She has worked as an editor and reporter for about 15 years in Singapore, New York and India for some of the world’s leading outlets, including Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Reuters and Business Line.

Most Popular

COVID-19

Grow your own: Urban farming is flourishing during the coronavirus lockdowns

The coronavirus lockdowns are making city dwellers realise how crucial urban farms can be in feeding the urban population.

09 Apr 2020

COVID-19

Here’s how Asia is using tech to tackle COVID-19

Emerging technologies are being deployed all across Asia to help fight the coronavirus outbreak, from robots that disinfect hospitals and data in Singapore enabling a detailed mapping of ...

18 Mar 2020

COVID-19

To stop the spread of diseases like the coronavirus, we need to reinvent our cities

High population densities make cities particularly vulnerable to the spread of infectious disease.

20 Feb 2020

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Can ethical businesses bring a breath of fresh air to Asia's polluted cities?

As air quality worsens in many Asian cities, businesses that produce affordable air purifiers are emerging.

19 Feb 2020

Environment and Natural Resource Security

This is Asia's largest urban rooftop farm

The space, atop one of Thailand's oldest universities, mimics rice terraces and can help curb some of the impacts of climate change, say landscapers.

20 Dec 2019

SDG 05: Gender Equality

Afghan women brave rockets for rights

"But women are still denied education, forced to marry young, kept from working, and treated no better than animals in the provinces."

04 Dec 2019

Gender Parity

In war-ravaged Kabul, women find peace in park picnics

In recent years, more than half a dozen of Kabul's gardens and parks have been restored or are being upgraded, with a special focus on making them safer and more accessible to women.

19 Nov 2019

Gender Parity

Facial recognition technology is stopping women from voting - this is how

A female founder of an Afghan political party has urged the country to rethink the use of AI in elections amid concerns that it has stopped women from voting.

11 Nov 2019

Cities and Urbanization

Asian cities are facing a threat you might not have thought about

Many of Asia's booming cities are failing to preserve their cultural heritage and risk losing traditional knowledge, crucial for inclusiveness and sustainability, say experts.

06 Nov 2019

Climate Change

Tokyo’s plan to make 2020 the ‘green Olympics’

From medals using metal from old mobile phones, to podiums made from marine plastic waste, Japan is doing all it can to reduce the environmental impact of the upcoming Olympic Games.

23 Oct 2019

Pakistan

5 million homes in 5 years - Pakistan's poverty pledge

The biggest government-backed housing programme ever attempted will use student architects, new technology and local materials to keep costs low.

16 Oct 2019

India

Citizens of Mumbai are braving arrest and punishment to fight climate change – here's how

Aarey Colony, known as the Indian city's "green lung", is under threat for new plans for a subway, where thousands of trees are due to be cut down, which has brought out hundreds of prote...

11 Oct 2019

Big Data

From drones to social media, how big data helps Asia weather disaster

Advancements in big data can better predict increasingly complex disasters in the Asia-Pacific region and limit their impact on vulnerable people.

27 Aug 2019

Innovation

Cities are building skyscrapers out of wood to cut carbon emissions

With concrete a major source of climate-changing emissions, cities around the world are looking at high-rise wooden buildings instead

22 Aug 2019

Japan

Here’s how Japan is breathing new life into its ‘ghost towns’

There is a slow but sure trickle of city-dwelling Japanese citizens that are swapping the city life for a quieter - and cheaper - life in the country.

02 Jul 2019