Like the untouchables in the Indian caste system, the ‘filthy’ slum dwellers of Nairobi have been shunned by a nation that is busy trying to achieve post-industrial status by turning the capital city ...

A new study suggests that the 'neighbourhood effect' of slums could help to alleviate some of their associated health problems. A team of academics led by Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to ...

Inside Khlong Toei, Bangkok’s largest slum community, located in the heart of Thailand’s capital. Home to roughly 100,000 people within a small area, this neighborhood sits alongside a canal and is ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The government will soon start distributing food to people in the slums adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic ...

Two hundred meters from my home is a community of informal settlers. Their houses, mostly made of flimsy materials, stand in stark contrast to those of people who live in posh subdivisions. The ...

On the 26th, two elderly individuals visited the Community Chest of Korea building in Jung-gu, Seoul, and donated 2,920,000 ...

BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman on Friday said that if voted to power, his party would work to create employment opportunities for young people, strengthen the ...