The map below shows the location of Bangkok and Hanoi. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

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 ...

HANOI: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim arrived here for a two-day working visit to Vietnam, during which he is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the 2nd Asean Future Forum on ...

The federal government has made a commitment to fix American cities. In particular, the federal government would like to get rid of slums, and to that end, is making millions of dollars available to ...

Children fill the local school, while neighbours bond over casual street gatherings. Although some outsiders are drawn to the island by the novelty of “slum tourism”, residents stay focused on their ...

From the rooftop of a Rio de Janeiro slum, amid sheet after sheet of corrugated iron, one man reclines amid succulents and ficus. His name is Luis Cassiano Silva, and he is the progenitor of the ...

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 ...

Hanoi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Vinh Phuc, and Ba Ria-Vung Tau were exempt as they no longer have substandard houses. At the district level, 603 out of 608 committees have been set up. Meanwhile, 8,488 ...

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 ...

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.