Word: ruralism
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...shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build a 1,700-acre (700 hectare) industrial park and township, turning this rural area into a satellite city. Trang Hieu Dung, director of planning at Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says that the country is losing about 99,000 acres (40,000 hectares) of rice paddies every year to construction of cities, highways and industrial zones. In Thailand, the amount...
...Harvard Project for Sustainable Development (HPSD) discovered a similar water sanitation problem in Los Jobos, Nicaragua, a rural community of only 250 people in northern Nicaragua...
Meyerowitz adds that since access to dental care in rural Nicaragua is limited, HPSD also plans to educate students, parents, and teachers about dental hygiene and preventative care, such as brushing and flossing...
...Varin predicts political trouble will heighten in late April or May. But it hardly takes a professional soothsayer to come to the conclusion that the current government is on shaky ground. Although Samak's party is popular in the rural northeast, the right-wing politician counts far fewer supporters among Bangkok's middle class and political elite. Even Samak himself indicated last month that he had been warned of a possible coup attempt?although the Prime Minister did not elaborate details of the purported plot...
...Thaksin from power, the junta may have thought it could unite an increasingly polarized country. But even after the military regime publicized a litany of complaints against Thaksin-alleged corruption, abuse of power and even disrespect for the country's beloved monarch-his populist policies still resonated with many rural poor. Samak's victory came precisely because of support from these voters, who still believe that Thaksin-or, failing that, his proxy-is the only person who will help them with microfinancing or affordable healthcare...