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 ...

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 ...

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 homes ...

BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It is a side of Bangkok that tourists seldom see: not far from the Buddhist temples, glitzy malls and go-go bars, is a neighborhood of shacks and squat homes in ...

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 ...

The Bangkok Community Help Foundation has launched a mass testing drive to try to identify cases and help them stop Khlong Toei becoming a reservoir that reinfects ...

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 ...

"Crime in the slums? A yawn is a typical response." In a series of startling, sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes uplifting vignettes, an American priest living in Bangkok's Klong Toey slum ...

A massive fire raced through a slum in downtown Bangkok on Friday, snarling traffic and spewing plumes of black smoke over embassies and five-star hotels in the area, officials said. There were no ...

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 ...