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Europe first encountered the Philippines in 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan claimed the archipelago for Spain?and ended up dead after a battle with local chieftain Lapu Lapu. Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle starts with an excerpt from a contemporary account of Magellan's Philippine visit, which describes comely native women...
The farmers and fishermen who live in jungle villages along the southern coast of Burma were long overlooked and neglected by their government. And they liked it that way, given the notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies...
The farmers and fishermen who live in jungle villages along the southern coast of Burma were long overlooked and neglected by their government. And they liked it that way, given the notorious methods of the country's military dictatorship. But their lives changed horribly, they say, after two oil companies...
Getting away with it, or what sociologist Ashish Nandy calls "following the law of the jungle," is now the dominant mantra of India's social and economic life. Economists estimate that the true size of India's GDP would be double the official $481 billion if the country's vast...
One victim, a slightly built, middle-aged rice farmer, told TIME of beatings by Burmese soldiers who forced villagers to carry heavy loads through the jungle, sometimes for weeks at a stretch. "The government calls us volunteers," he said. "But the truth is, we were slaves."