Over 4 Million People Worldwide Live In Slums, UN-Habitat Chief Says. BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 20. Over four million people ...

Themes of hybrid identity and an increasingly globalized industrial society take center stage at Asia Society this Saturday, May 21, at the American premiere of Angel in the Slums, a new production ...

Soon, bulldozers are expected to rumble into Asia's largest slum, in the heart of the Indian megalopolis of Mumbai, flattening its labyrinth of filthy alleyways for a brand-new neighbourhood. The ...

LOW-QUALITY Philippine urban housing was estimated at 40% of the total, higher than the corresponding shares for India or Indonesia, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a working paper. Citing ...

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) defines a slum as a residential area that completely lacks basic amenities needed for human survival like sanitation, potable water, ...

The Prince of Wales has spent the last day of his tour of India visiting Asia's largest slum city. The sprawling Dharavi region of Bombay - also known as Mumbai - is made up of ramshackle corrugated ...

Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one-storey home crammed into a tangle of alleys - Copyright ENGINEER JEROME MARTINEZ/AFP Handout Bipinkumar Padaya (C) live in a one ...

Stencilled just above the stairs, the red mark in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is tantamount to an eviction notice for residents like Bipinkumar Padaya. "I was born here, my father was born here, my ...