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 ...

"Water to wine” is the image that journalist Greg Barrett uses to describe the transformation in the lives of children living at Mercy Centre, an orphanage in a Bangkok slum. Most of the children have ...

BANGKOK, Dec 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - 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 ...

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - 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 ...

Doctor Giuseppe Bolotta is an Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at the Ca Foscari University of Venice. He is also a Research ...

Small homes, funded by a charity and designed by a leading architect, have helped residents brave a surge of the coronavirus pandemic in the Klong Toey slum in Bangkok, Thailand. [Reuters] Flimsy ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 the biggest ...

Bangkok is often seen through the lens of temples, nightlife, and luxury malls, but there is another side of the city that most travelers never witness. In this video, we step inside Bangkok’s most ...

A home in the squatter settlement of Phrom Samrit, which occupies a small section of the Prem Prachakon canal in Bangkok, June 9, 2017. Residents say their homes were submerged for three months during ...