Rats, ‘the size of cats’, are running riot in Britain’s second-largest city, Birmingham, as waste spills from black bags left ...

[KUALA LUMPUR] Every weekend, thousands cross the Kuala Belait-Kuala Baram border, a key link between Brunei and Miri in Malaysia’s Sarawak state. Among them is Hannah Chow, a Miri-born teacher who ...

A slum colony that could rival the scale of clusters of shanties in Bandra East is quietly mushrooming on railway premises under the nose of Western Railway (WR). The abandoned fifth and sixth ...

US exports to Brunei amounted to USD 127.2 million, reflecting a 10.1 per cent decrease from 2023, while imports from Brunei totaled USD238.8 million, down 6.4 per cent from the previous year ...

I’m the head of CFK Africa, a nongovernmental organization that empowers youth and fights extreme poverty in Kenyan slums. The sudden dismantling of USAID means lives are being disrupted ...

After mid-day wrote about the development of a slum colony on railway land near Bandra Terminus, Western Railway (WR) swung into action on Tuesday. The shanties have been dismantled, with most of ...

The name became symbolic of slums where poor Irish immigrants lived in ramshackle shanties, squatting on property they didn’t own. In an era when the Irish faced widespread prejudice, ...

Although the city did not have large areas that would be considered slums, there were thousands of people living in unsafe homes. “Even the most casual observer would conclude the housing ...

”When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” — Mr. Fred Rogers, our ...

UN-Habitat executive director Anacláudia Rossbach said: “The rising tide of waste is straining urban infrastructure, public health, and the environment—especially for 1.1 billion people in informal ...

Wednesday was a day of presentations by city staff guiding development of the midtown campus and surroundings that will soon be called a Metropolitan Redevelopment Area. MRA is also the acronym ...