While land clearing for plantations in Indonesia has been blamed for causing haze, deforestation’s role in fuelling floods ...

One might expect researchers to have settled the question long ago of whether poverty causes crime. On the surface, the answer seems obvious. A correlation certainly exists: anyone working in the ...

SINGAPORE – Seniors at 60 active ageing centres (AACs) across Singapore will soon have easy access to news, curated content and sharing sessions on topics such as financial literacy and scam awareness ...

New Census Bureau data highlights sharp contrasts in poverty across the U.S., with some states reporting rates nearly three times higher than others. Over the three-year period from 2022 through 2024, ...

SINGAPORE – SPH Media won eight awards at the Asia Podcast Awards 2025 held in Jakarta on Sept 3. Launched in 2023 by Australian trade publication Radioinfo, the awards recognise the most outstanding ...

GDELS unveiled the Nemesis tracked SPH at FEINDEF 2025. (Janes/Tristan Sauer) General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) and KNDS showcased a new 155 mm self-propelled howitzer (SPH) system named ...

Oluwaseyi Omowunmi Popogbe does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social scientists ...

As President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump vie for Black voters’ support, each has been touting their achievements benefiting Black workers and families. During a June 15 visit to ...

A Nepalese immigrant in his early 40s described the stress and uncertainty he felt during college about how to afford rent, food and tuition despite having a scholarship. A man of Hmong origin in his ...

Asian Americans are often portrayed as educationally and financially successful when compared with other racial or ethnic groups. However, Asian origin groups in the United States vary widely in their ...