Discover the full list of countries that lack direct flights from the UK and the reasons behind it, including large nations ...

They can’t find a place to stay until a Chinese lodging house manager, Lao (Jason Tobin), sneaks them ... and Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), a survivor of the slum’s workhouses who now commands ...

The mass of shanties on the sixth floor of a landmark is no Tower of David, the skyscraper that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez gave slum-dwellers, but it is home to many families for decades The City of ...

Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs Thongsavanh Phomvihane will visit China from Wednesday to Saturday, marking his first official visit since taking office. He is also the first foreign minister to ...

Thailand and Laos agreed on Thursday to enhance bilateral cooperation in various areas, including fortifying border security, tackling haze issues and adopting a mutual trade target of US$11 ...

BANGKOK – Amidst the tense situation on the Thai border with Myanmar and Cambodia, due to the Thai government’s crackdown on call-centre gangs, the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in the Bokeo ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning plastic to cook their food, warm their homes and boil water for hot showers. Waste plastic is plentiful and highly flammable.

Dhaka's sprawling slums have long been a symbol of hardship, but a worsening crisis is now intensifying the struggles of their residents — the alarming rise of drug addiction. A field visit to various ...

In the slums of Wakaliga, on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala, an independent film studio has been defying norms for 20 years. With shoestring budgets, Wakaliwood produces action and ...

The long-running legal battle focuses on whether SecLink Technologies was incorrectly excluded from the bidding process when the Indian billionaire won the Dharavi slum project with a $619 million ...

As climate change has made India’s summers more extreme, Ahmedabad has suffered temperatures in excess of 46°C. In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 ...

Mumbai: State housing board Mhada and the SRA (Slum Rehabilitation Authority) will expedite work on 17 slum redevelopment projects involving 25,000 homes being undertaken in joint partnership.