Agriculture: Bring back the landlords | The Economist
CHINA’S Communist Party has always had a problem with big landowners. In Communist culture, they are synonymous with evil. In January on the country’s most-watched television show—a gala at lunar new...
View ArticleModi’s bid to ease land for companies could impact reforms | Reuters
A bid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make it easier for businesses to buy farm land for infrastructure and industry has sparked a backlash that could stymie his efforts to get reforms through a...
View ArticleChina to spend 26 billion yuan to register rights ahead of rural reforms |...
China will spend about 26 billion yuan (HK$33 billion) to help identify and register the contractual rights over the nation’s arable land to pave the way for rural reforms. More than 200 million rural...
View ArticleRahul Gandhi’s Speech: The Indian Media’s Surprise Verdict – India Real Time...
India’s punditocracy in recent weeks has loved to hate Rahul Gandhi. Mr. Gandhi, the vice president of India’s opposition Congress party, was derided by some opinion-makers for taking a break from...
View ArticleNDA constituents Shiv Sena, Shiromani Akali Dal, Swabhimani Paksha red-flag...
Fault lines in the NDA over the land bill are visible with three of BJP’s allies – the Shiv Sena, the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Swabhimani Paksha — red-flagging a number of provisions of the proposed...
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