Notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh ( which is the capital city ), the rural Battambang area, the areas of Northeast Thailand adjacent to Cambodia such as Surin province, the Cardamom Mountains, and in southern Vietnam.

illegal logging activities throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand have resulted in habitat loss and declining biodiversity ( in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries ); soil erosion ; in rural areas, most of the population does not have access to potable water ; declining fish stocks because of illegal fishing and overfishing

The picture to the right is of a rural, commercial cutting operation in Thailand.

These years saw rapid growth in Malaysian cities, particularly Kuala Lumpur, which became a magnet for immigration both from rural Malaya and from poorer neighbours such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines.

Slow rail travel has long been a rural long distance transport mechanism, though plans are underway to expand services with high speed rail lines extending to several major regions of Thailand.

In rural northern Thailand a religious ceremony honoring ancestral spirits, known as faun phii ( spirit dance or ghost dance ), takes place.

Commercialization and globalization resulted in mass migration of people from rural areas to urban areas resulting in high profile skyscrapers in Asia and Europe. In Asia skyscrapers were constructed in India, China, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.

Meanwhile, reclusive Theravada forest monks in Thailand live a life devoted to meditation and the practice of austerities in small communities in rural Thailand-a very different life from even their city-dwelling counterparts, who may be involved primarily in teaching, the study of scripture, and the administration of the nationally organized ( and government sponsored ) Sangha.

The picture to the left is of a rural, commercial cutting operation in Thailand.

The USIS in Thailand and both sides in the Laotian Civil War ( the Secret War ) recruited mor lam singers to include propaganda in their performances, in hopes persuading the rural population to support their cause.

Mor lam started to spread in Thailand in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when more and more people left rural Isan to seek work.

Even in the 1970s, government per capita spending on rural assistance programmes was lower in Isan than anywhere else in Thailand.

Thus, Hochschild argues that love is gold but the gold is created through a social alchemy which blends a pre-modern childhood ( as lived in rural areas of the Philippines, Thailand, India ) and a post-modern American ideology of intensive mothering and child development, with the loneliness and separation of migration.

Thousands of women from rural Thailand, China, Laos, Burma and Cambodia are sold to brothels in Bangkok or in other countries by " job brokers ," who often operate in organized international syndicates.

On her facebook page the year she was born is given as 1969. Her mother could not remember the exact date she was born, not uncommon in rural Thailand in previous decades

These articles, many of which were concerned with social injustice in rural Thailand, were compiled in a 1975 publication known as Kamphɛɛŋ ().

The film begins in Ban Nong Pradu, a rural village in northeastern Thailand whose most prized possession is an ancient Buddha image, named Ong-Bak.

Throughout his walk he was thrown in jail four times and nearly murdered in rural Thailand by bandits.

Angels Wings Rural Teaching Scholarship was created to provide scholarships to Thai college students who committed to teaching in Thailand ’ s rural areas after their schooling is complete.

Implying the transition from a natural to modernized state, the 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness ( GNH 3 ) took place in two locations: the first three days took place in rural north-eastern province of Nong Khai and the last three days in the urban campus of Chulalongkorn University in central Bangkok, Thailand.

Forest monasteries are situated far away from urban areas, usually in the wilderness or very rural areas of Thailand.

In a rural village in Thailand, Mak ( Winai Kraibutr ) is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak ( Intira Jaroenpura ).

From here, Ajahn Mun returned to the rural districts of northeast Thailand.

Three hospitals were opened in rural Thailand as well as a leprosy control program.

A primary school in a village in northern rural Laos

Laos is generally very rural areas, and most of the people support themselves by agriculture, with rice being the most important crop.

Typically featuring a theme of unrequited love, mor lam also reflects the difficulties of life in rural Isan and Laos, leavened with wry humour.

In the ensuing escape, Billy and Gene's helicopter takes fire and crashes, stranding them in the jungles of Laos, where they are ultimately captured by a rural tribe.

Buddhism in Laos is often closely tied to animist beliefs and belief in ancestral spirits, particularly in rural areas.

Its dominate the south of Barnes, providing a rural setting to the village and a wealth of habitats including acid grassland, scrub, woodland and wetland.

Most of the area is rural and part of the Florida scrub ecosystem, with smaller areas of hammocks and cypress swamps, similar to those found at Highlands Hammock State Park, four miles ( 6 km ) west of Sebring.

East of Carrizo Springs it turns to the east, flowing through the scrub plains of South Texas, across rural Dimmit, La Salle, and McMullen counties.

They are commonly found in native laurel forests ( lowlands in particular ), scrub, rural and city gardens and parks.

88 % of the land is rural, although agriculture accounts for less than three percent of the region's jobs.

Various accounts have asserted that during the Vietnam War, members of the Viet Cong sometimes made calculated use of disembowelment as a means of psychological warfare, to coerce and intimidate rural peasants.

Reflecting the diverse historical roots of the movement, however, they also included postal savings banks ( 318 million accounts ), state agricultural and development banks ( 172 million accounts ), financial cooperatives and credit unions ( 35 million accounts ) and specialized rural banks ( 19 million accounts ).

It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.

Borges emphasizes that " gauchesque " poetry was not poetry written by gauchos, but generally by educated urban writers who adopted the eight-syllable line of the rural payadas ( ballads ), but often filled them with folksy expressions and with accounts of daily life that had no place in the " serious and even solemn " payadas.

As at 2006 the total population of the county is 49, 208, out of which the population of Środa Śląska accounts for 8, 800, while the rural population is 40, 408.

Utilities with low density rural areas may not cost justify the fixed network infrastructure for parts of their service area, using it only for higher density zones or commercial accounts.

This area accounts for most of the City's population and as such, the LGA is a primarily urban area with many of the smaller settlements forming suburban areas separated by areas of secondary industry, although there are large tracts of crown and rural land to the north and south.

* The rural area accounts for 83. 1 % of the total land area and is basically agricultural.

As writers such as George Douglas Brown railed against the " Kailyard school " that had come to dominate Scottish letters, producing satiric, realist accounts of Scottish rural life in novels like The House with the Green Shutters ( 1901 ), Scots language poets such as Violet Jacob and Marion Angus undertook a quiet revival of regionally inflected poetry in the Lowland vernacular.

The concentration of the town's population is observed in the rural areas, which accounts for 91. 70 %, of the total population of the municipality.

The local area is predominantly rural, but agriculture accounts for only 1. 4 % of local employment.