The poverty alleviation relocation programme (2016–2020) was a crucial initiative in China's fight against poverty, which was led and subsidised by the government with voluntary participation from the ...

India: Samsung whitegoods factory workers in Tamil Nadu strike over sackings; Dehradun city sanitation workers continue strikes over non-payment of wages; Australia: Wilpinjong mine workers escalate ...

IN 2019, widow Aida Morales—who was then 65 years old—was one of the 15,102 successful takers of the “DepEd Alternative Learning System [ALS] Accreditation and Equivalency [A&E] Test” held in Region 3 ...

Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

Population aging is rapidly becoming one of Asia’s most daunting challenges. In 2023, 14% of the region’s population was aged ...

Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima has described the North-East as one of the poorest regions in the world, stressing ...

The India-Myanmar border is not only a frontier that New Delhi needs to secure, but is also a vital tool in India’s foreign ...

Ethnoburbs — ethnic suburban enclaves — challenge assimilation and represent a form of resistance against the homogenizing ...

As the West throws up barriers to Chinese goods, they are flowing to emerging markets instead. In the past three years, the ...

Opening Remarks by Deputy Managing Director Kenji Okamura at the 7th IMF-JICA Conference, February 13, 2025, Tokyo, Japan ...

Decoding the playbook for slowing Asia's energy transition. In Asia, some arguments that downplay renewables might be ...

A recent analysis by the U.N. children’s agency found that more than 500 million children in East Asia and Pacific countries ...