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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.

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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

Education, Gender and Work

Widows of suicide farmers will get land titles in Indian state

Widows often face difficulty in claiming their husband's property and in receiving government compensation and other benefits, activists said.

24 Jun 2019

Education, Gender and Work

1 billion people are going to polls in Asia. Here are the main issues at stake

From India to Indonesia, voters in Asia this year are set to put rights for women, LGBT+ equality and land issues top of the agenda

25 Mar 2019

Education, Gender and Work

How sexist is that film? This app will help you find out

A new mobile application allows users to rate movies by answering questions on metrics such as representation, agency, sexuality, and intersectionality.

04 Mar 2019

Future of Energy

Why floating solar panels are on the rise

Competition for land use in Southeast Asia has reached crisis point, leading to the innovative solution of floating solar panels.

15 Feb 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

How Singapore is securing its food supply with rooftop farms

Singapore imports the majority of its food, leaving it particularly vulnerable to disruptions in supply. Here's how the country is protecting itself.

11 Jan 2019

Future of Economic Progress

There's a new plan to tackle Japan's overhousing problem - give them to single mums

Japan has more than nine million empty homes and a single mother population of 700,000, who often struggle to find accommodation. This new initiative can solve the two problems.

14 Dec 2018

Environment and Natural Resource Security

Tourism and marine parks threaten Thailand's 'people of the sea'

"Tourism is booming, but we are excluded. And we are worried that we will lose the cases and be removed from here"

06 Dec 2018

Technological Transformation

Singapore is launching an on-demand bus service to cut congestion

The six-month trial will use mobile technology and aims to reduce congestion, cut costs and provide passengers with a more efficient service.

04 Dec 2018

Advanced Materials

Bamboo homes could be the future of affordable city housing

The low-cost CUBO was designed by a 23-year-old graduate and won first prize in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors' Cities of our Future competition.

28 Nov 2018

Environment and Natural Resource Security

This Philippine resort city has chosen a 'morally correct' low-carbon path

When Theresa Walgraeve and her husband set up their 15-room resort in Puerto Princesa, a city on the Philippine island of Palawan, they worried about mosquitoes and monsoon damp - and the...

24 Oct 2018

India

These indigenous Indian farmers are fighting deforestation with gourmet coffee

The Adivasis are countering deforestation by planting millions of mango, papaya and orange trees - while also growing an award-winning coffee.

18 Oct 2018

Engineering and Construction

These award-winning homes for Cambodian factory workers are setting a trend

As part of a competition hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), designers were asked to create houses for workers in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the capital of ...

17 Oct 2018

Blockchain

In this Bangkok neighbourhood, you can buy and sell electricity using Blockchain

The pilot project in the centre of Thailand's capital is among the world's largest peer-to-peer renewable energy trading platforms using blockchain.

30 Aug 2018

India

India's water crisis is hitting women hardest. Here's why

On average, a woman in rural India walks between 5 and 20 kilometres a day to fetch water.

16 Jul 2018