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Poverty
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  • Around 6.3 million private-sector workers in Malaysia who are younger than 55 have less than US$2,125 saved up for their retirement
  • Left unchecked, it would mean they have less than US$9 a month to survive on in their old age, according to ministry estimates
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Analysts blame structural problems for the plunge and say PM Anwar needs to make long-term economic reforms – and find the political support for these measures.

A minister has been ridiculed for his suggestion that marketing palm oil plantation workers as ‘professional harvesters’ could help solve chronic labour shortages.

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At least three men were promised well-paying jobs in the Middle East, only to be led to Russia, where their families claim they have been forced to fight in the Ukraine war.

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Every year, poor fishermen in coastal India and Pakistan are arrested for venturing into the other nation’s maritime boundary lines while looking for better catch.

Whether in Nepal or Hong Kong, families in poverty sacrifice girls’ education, says Jennifer Lin, director of Ani Choying Drolma: Mission Impossible, about Nepali nun who founded a school for poor girls.

Thieves took 133 tonnes of chicken – said to be a month’s ration for a medium-sized province – from a facility in Havana and sold it to buy refrigerators, televisions and air conditioners.

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Lawmakers are debating the removal of a 40 per cent restriction on foreign ownership of public utilities, educational institutions and the advertising industry.

The popular Vollpension Cafe in Austria is staffed mostly with people above 60 and offers home-made cakes and traditional recipes while making a statement against elderly poverty and loneliness.

The presidential front runner denied making a ‘very cruel’ comment on voters’ intelligence, as he fended off questions about women’s rights and his multibillion-dollar plan to provide free meals.

Vicky Sharma and his team of volunteers help provide blankets to those who are homeless in the Indian capital, transport people to hospitals - and collect the bodies of the dead.

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Papua New Guinea’s PM James Marape has cancelled a trip to Davos as he fends off calls to resign while trying to defuse the national crisis sparked by a police pay dispute.

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Drug convict Mary Jane Veloso has been on death row in Indonesia since 2010. Her parents hope President Joko Widodo will grant her freedom as he visits Manila.

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Israel is recruiting at least 40,000 Indian workers to plug the labour shortage in its construction sector as a result of the Gaza war. Some say they are ‘willing to take the risk’.

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Rohingya refugees like Nur Azizah reach Indonesia after perilous boat journeys, but are unable to work and have to rely on support from international organisations.

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Survivor Muhammad Jubair, of another refugee boat, says the ailing vessel disappeared from view after a storm destroyed the engine on Jubair’s vessel and severed the ropes between the two boats.

Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and at Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages.

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