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.
Once forbidden by colonialists from cultivating coffee, indigenous people in southern India have won a prestigious award for their bean, which they farm while fighting deforestation.
An award-winning design for factory worker housing in Cambodia's capital will serve as a model for homes in other cities in the rapidly-urbanising country, according to the charity that w...
Residents in a Bangkok neighbourhood are trying out a renewable energy trading platform that allows them to buy and sell electricity between themselves, signalling the growing popularity ...
Women in villages who have to walk miles each day to fetch water are bearing the brunt of India's worst water crisis in history, with activists warning of serious impacts on their health ...
One of India's poorest states is handing out land rights to slum-dwellers in an innovative scheme to redevelop urban settlements that officials say will benefit a million people.
More popular Southeast Asian islands will be off limits to visitors this year as officials seek to protect eco-systems crumbling from warming seas and unchecked sprawl, despite the risk t...
A dusty plastic sheet covers a large diesel generator in a corner of a petrol station in Atrauli, a village in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a modest but telling sign of progress.
A little before 2 pm each day, when residents of Phangane village in India's Maharashtra state usually take a quick nap in the heat of the day, elderly women in bright pink sarees head to...
Malik Abdullah's plastic recycling business in Dharavi, the sprawling slum in Mumbai that is among the largest in Asia, has survived fire, building collapses, and the criminal underworld ...
