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Hong Kong may be developing a formula to take in factors in addition to income, the basic marker, however change must not come at the cost of those in need
A minister has been ridiculed for his suggestion that marketing palm oil plantation workers as ‘professional harvesters’ could help solve chronic labour shortages.
New ‘community living rooms’ expected to cater to more than 1,000 households living in cramped conditions in To Kwa Wan, Hung Hom and Nam Cheong.
Residents say they are still being overcharged for utilities and have ongoing conflicts with landlords over repair and maintenance issues.
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.
Many people in rural regions lack access to financial institutions and bank loans, leaving them at the mercy of ‘predatory’ money lenders.
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.
Way poverty is measured in city is to change, with more sophisticated formula to replace median household income drawn up before year-end.
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.
But some Indian workers view working in Israel as a chance to escape poverty and improve their economic outlook, despite the risks.
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.
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.
Rural Rising aims to revitalise the Philippines’ dismal agricultural sector through fair trade by weeding out unscrupulous middlemen.
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.
The Department of Trade and Industry recently approved requests by manufacturers to reduce the size of products while keeping retail prices the same.
The self-proclaimed ‘anarcho-capitalist’ president is making hist first overseas tour, even as he battles a major economic crisis at home.
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.
The move comes after the island nation was rocked by two nights of riots and looting, triggered by a sudden police walkout over a pay dispute.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
The 4,700-square-foot venue on Fuk Wah Street in Sham Shui Po provides extra space for people and families to do homework, shower, cook and eat.
Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and at Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages.
Malaysia has enough laws to deal with illegal renovations and partitions done by building owners but enforcement of these laws remains a major issue.