In Cameroon, school pupils are growing their own food using regenerative methods: minimal tillage, composting, organic manure and grafting fruit trees. In Bamenda, one programme involves 70 pupils from two schools, with gardens split into nurseries, vegetables, fruit trees, composting and tubers, and two sessions of about two hours each week. The need is real: more than 3.3 million Cameroonians struggle to find enough food, about 64 percent of households in assessed areas face severe food insecurity, and 29 percent of children under five are chronically malnourished. Only 2.8 percent of primary pupils get a free hot school meal, so gardens fill a small part of the gap while teaching skills such as plantain propagation.

Indonesian Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka handed his resignation to parliament after questions were raised about his eligibility for office and his academic credentials. Gibran is the son of former president Joko Widodo, and his resignation came as Widodo publicly backed the president, Prabowo Subianto. Gibran had been elected vice president in 2024 as Prabowo's running mate. His candidacy was made possible by a 2023 Constitutional Court ruling on the minimum age for candidates, which was itself controversial. Parliament will now consider the resignation.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.