Tag Archives : internal migration

Phnom Penh has been developing at breakneck speed. Infrastructure dots the capital. The result of this property boom is the sad and sorry reality that the city’s poor are being displaced at an alarming rate. ‘Activists are calling it the largest epidemic of evictions since the Khmer Rouge emptied all of Phnom Penh in 1975.’ The government [...]

Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, has been a battleground between government forces and radical Islamists for four decades. Recent massive fighting erupted after the ancestral domain agreement for an expanded Muslim land in Mindanao was judged illegal by the Supreme Court of the Philippines. The Muslims are deemed not rightful [...]

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report entitled ‘Basic Public Services for 1.3 Billion People’ states that the lives of the Chinese have greatly upgraded in quality. Adult literacy rates are higher. Poverty rates are lower. Most importantly, Chinese people are living longer. The UN admits that what China has exhibited are among [...]

Poverty in the countryside makes people flock to urban areas. The glitz, glamour, and bright lights of the city attract poor people to urban destinations as if they were the guiding star. Millions of people flock to cities every week. In developing nations, populations are expected to triple over the next 30 years. Most of these will naturally want [...]