People look on to the slum that burnt out in Dhaka People look on to the slum that burnt out in Dhaka DHAKA (Reuters) - About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire ...

According to Global Wealth Report 2015, half of world’s wealth is now in the hands of 1% of population. In Manila, the Philippines’s capital, there is also a deep divide between the rich and the poor.

Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan go missing on purpose to get a second shot at life. The South China Morning Post spoke to two men who have disappeared from their old lives. "I was ...

(CNN) — A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. (CNN) — A massive ...

Explore how Bengaluru's housing policies fail the urban poor, leading to the rise and demolition of slums in the city.

To fast-track the redevelopment of Mumbai’s slums and move toward a slum-free city, the Maharashtra government has issued a new order stating that individual slum-dwellers’ consent will no longer be ...

MUMBAI: In a move that will expedite the redevelopment of Mumbai’s slums, the state government on Thursday said the consent of slum residents is not required for the slum cluster redevelopment scheme.

We have race to-the-top competitions in education and I'm advocating such a race in urban renewal in slum areas. I'm saying that we can have grants to stimulate growth in slum areas. We've had trickle ...

MUMBAI: In yet another order that shot down acquisition by the Maharashtra government and Slum Rehabilitation Authority of an upscale private property in Mumbai, the Supreme Court on Friday upheld a ...

Nearly 10 huts were gutted after a massive fire broke out in New Gautam Nagar, a slum area in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs of Govandi, on Saturday, with no injuries reported. The fire was extinguished ...