Asia Pacific Jul 6, 2020
Dreams of Myanmar's 'unwashed' jade miners buried by disaster
Myanmar's worst-ever mine disaster, after a landslide in heavy rains, entombed at least 174 people, with scores more feared missing.
National Jul 1, 2020
The welfare ministry believes temporary closure of businesses nationwide due to COVID-19 may have contributed to the increase and predict a further rise.
Asia Pacific Jun 26, 2020
Women around the world have been hurt financially by the coronavirus outbreak, but the situation in India, where women suffer from a wide gender gap in employment, wages and education, is more precarious for them than almost anywhere else. Less than a quarter of women ...
World Jun 22, 2020
Riyadh is the top donor to Yemen — and the paring back of its support will have the biggest impact, observers say.
Asia Pacific Jun 18, 2020
Laid off due to coronavirus, Cambodian garment workers compete for shifts
by Matt Blomberg and Mech Dara
For three hours, Cambodian seamstress Em Thy waited in a crowd with hundreds of other laid-off garment workers on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, desperate to be selected for a one-off shift. Defeated, the 53-year-old shouted insults at the factory recruiters as they drove away ...
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Jun 14, 2020
India’s Dharavi, Asia’s most crowded slum, has gone from coronavirus hot spot to potential success story, offering a model for developing nations struggling to contain the pandemic. Authorities have knocked on 47,500 doors since April to measure temperatures and oxygen levels, screened almost 700,000 people ...
World Jun 12, 2020
Pandemic risks pushing millions more into child labor, U.N. says
Millions of children could be pushed into work by the coronavirus crisis, the U.N. said Friday as it braced for the first rise in child labor in two decades. In a joint brief, the International Labour Organization and UNICEF noted that the number of children ...
World Jun 12, 2020
Study warns of global poverty surge to over 1 billion due to coronavirus
Global poverty is set to rise above 1 billion people once again as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which is reducing the income of the world's poorest by $500 million a day, according to new research published Friday. The research by King's College London ...
Business / Economy | FOCUS Jun 12, 2020
Women bear brunt of Japan's recession as pandemic unravels Abe's 'Womenomics'
by Eimi Yamamitsu and Linda Sieg
Many women lack the job security of male workers, with more than half holding vulnerable part-time, contract or temporary jobs.
Asia Pacific / Politics Jun 11, 2020
'Why did he abandon us?': In India, anger toward Modi grows
by Bibhudatta Pradhan and Sudhi Ranjan Sen
For the first time since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power six years ago, signs are emerging that his seemingly unshakable hold over legions of migrant workers may be slipping. Over the last two months reports have poured in from across the country ...
World Jun 10, 2020
Feby Dela Pena saw her fellow Filipinos standing in line outside her building in Dubai, waiting for free food. And she was stricken — what if her family, too, had lost their income amid the COVID-19 outbreak? How would she have fed her three ...
National Jun 5, 2020
The authorities said their reasoning was that most such people are members of anti-social organizations such as organized crime syndicates.