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Some retailers rethink role in Bangladesh Steven Greenhouse New York Times May 1, 2013 Death toll rises in Bangladesh building collapse Julfikar Ali Manik, Steven Greenhouse and Jim Yardley New York Times April 25, 2013

A slum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Wide dissatisfaction has followed the boom of the 1990s. Photo: Justin Mott/International Herald Tribune

In hard times, open dissent and repression rise in Vietnam Thomas Fuller New York Times April 23, 2013

China cracks down on anti-corruption activists Andrew Jacobs New York Times April 21, 2013

Here's how lousy life is in North Korea Rick Newman US News and World Report April 12, 2012

 Indian residents in a district facing a drinking water shortage wait with plastic pots at a community tube well to collect drinking water in Bangalore on October 8, 2012. Photo: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

India states fight over river usage Shyamantha Asokan Washington Post April 3, 2013

Rethinking food insecurity in Nepal’s Karnali region IRIN News March 21, 2013  

An Indian vegetable vendor, an SKS Microfinance loan recipient, manages her stall in a village near the city of Ahmedabad. Microsavings programs are bringing the benefits of thrift even to the poorest of the poor. Photo: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images

Microsavings programs build wealth, pennies at a time Ylan Q Mui Washington Post March 15, 2013

Veteran Burmese activist Win Tin says democracy icon Suu Kyi is too conciliatory toward the military Simon Denyer Washington Post March 13, 2013

A flurry of fires in Bangladesh raise concerns over garment-worker safety Jason Motlagh Washington Post March 1,  2013  

Clashes over land seizures batter the police in Myanmar Thomas Fuller New York Times February 28, 2013 See Hunger Notes special report on trade and hunger

Farm workers remove weeds from young plants at the palm oil plantation owned by Karuturi Global, near the town of Bako, in Ethiopia. Photograph: Jose Cendon/Getty Images

Indian investors are forcing Ethiopians off their land. Thousands of Ethiopians are being relocated or have already fled as their land is sold off to foreign investors without their consent. John Vidal The Guardian February 6, 2013 See report See Hunger Notes special report on trade and hunger

The right to food in Bangladesh IRIN News January 22, 2013  See Hunger Notes special report The right to food is a basic human right

A candlelight gathering after the cremation on Sunday blocked a road in New Delhi, the city where the Dec. 16 rape occurred. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images  

Indian women march: "That girl could have been any one of us"  Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati New York Times December 28, 2012 Woman dies after gang rape that galvanized India Heather Timmons and Sruthi Gottipati New York Times December 28, 2012 Dangers on the streets of India, shape lives, stifle dreams of country’s young women Associated Press Washington Post December 20, 2012

Indian schoochildren receive a free midday meal at a government school in Jammau.  Photo: Washington Post

India wakes up to child malnutrition ‘shame,’ begins to make progress Simon Denyer Washington Post December 26, 2012 See other health and nutrition stories

Children of China’s ‘Immortals’ are new capitalist elite Bloomberg News Washington Post December 26 2012  

Pakistan polio drive suspended after 8 health workers killed by extremists (video) BBC News December 19, 2012 Getting polio campaigns back on track (analysis) Donald G McNeil Jr New York Times December 24, 2012 See other health and nutrition stories

Opposition to labor camps widens in China Andrew Jacobs New York Times December 14, 2012

Five reasons malnutrition still kills in Nepal IRIN News December 14, 2012 See more nutrtition stories

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