Cambodia: Economic woes back home for returning Cambodians

PHNOM PENH, Jan 9 (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Since the outbreak of Covid-19 early last year, more than 120,000 out of 1.2 million Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand have returned home, with many facing difficulties to sustain themselves and their families.

Covid-19 has further worsened inequalities in healthcare

The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated health inequity in society that needs to be addressed.

Nearly 30 per cent of Cambodian migrant workers lose income

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The report found that nearly 30 per cent of migrant households have no income at all and nearly 60 per cent of them have no source of earnings in Cambodia. IOM Cambodia

In blast-hit Beirut, 'invisible' elderly women face destitution

The United Nations and aid agencies said older women living alone made up almost one in 10 households in areas hit by the explosion in August , which wrecked swathes of Beirut, killed 200 people, injured thousands more and displaced 300,000.

U.N. chief congratulates Biden, says U.S. 'essential' to global cooperation

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.N. chief Antonio Guterres congratulates U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, a U.N. spokesman said on Monday, describing U.S. partnership with the world body as an "essential pillar" of global cooperation.

Biden win seen as green light for women's reproductive rights

Democrat Joe Biden as U.S. president will bring sweeping changes to women's reproductive rights globally, according to campaign groups.

4,050 get packed meals through campaign

SUNWAY has embarked on its Food for Thought campaign with a target to distribute 4,050 packed meals to Klang Valley’s urban poor in need of nutritional support during the conditional movement control order (MCO) period.

UN, partners surveying Vietnam typhoon, report 70 dead or missing

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 1 (Xinhua): The United Nations and humanitarian partners assessing the situation in central Vietnam following typhoon Molave and announced that more than 70 people are reported dead or missing, 88,000 houses damaged and about 375,000 people moved to evacuation centres.

The poor in Malaysian cities are getting poorer

Unicef: Low-income households in real danger from Covid-19 economic impact, help needed

PETALING JAYA: Many low-income households in Malaysia remain worse off than prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and are in real danger of “backsliding”, according to a study from the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).