Rung, 63, fought a running battle against the rubbish and raw sewage besieging her old home in a wooden slum perched on stilts on the banks of Bangkok's Lat Phrao canal.

An Australian charity shop is funding school holiday activities for children in one of Bangkok's poorest slums. "Second Chance" is now developing an upcycling program in which Thai women in need ...

A BRIT photographer has uncovered Bangkok’s seedy underbelly – where tattooed locals live in drug-ravaged slums. Sam Gregg set out to find the real people of Bangkok’s notorious K… ...

In Phrom Samrit, a squatter settlement along a major canal in Bangkok, most of the 300 households live cheek by jowl and have become used to floods after living next to water all their lives. But ...

Inhabitants of the Klong Toey slum live under the constant threat of eviction in a rapidly expanding and modernizing city. Prateep Ungsongtham, who grew up in Thailand's largest slum ...

Bangkok - A huge fire on Friday razed a densely populated slum area in Bangkok near several Western embassies and luxury hotels, leaving thousands of Thais homeless, police said. The blaze, one of ...

BANGKOK, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Flimsy shacks of tin and ply have given way to sleek, painted newbuilds - small, clean and leak-free - in Bangkok's biggest slum, creating model ...

LAGOS - John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos.

Surrounded by children in a Bangkok slum, Miss Universe Thailand handed out lunch boxes prepared by Michelin-starred chefs on Monday -- a project to help some of the capital's worst Covid-hit ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — The World Bank and Miss Universe are coming to town, and for that reason some of Bangkok’s struggling poor have been told to move out. Thousands of Bangkok slum dwel… ...

An Australian charity shop is funding school holiday activities for children in one of Bangkok's poorest slums. "Second Chance" is now developing an upcycling program in which Thai women in need ...