Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.

Mounia Meddour, whose feature debut “Papicha” opened at Cannes and won two prizes at the Cesar Awards in 2020, has pulled ...

Abstract: Accurate mapping of slums is crucial for urban planning and management. This article proposes a machine learning, hierarchical object-based method to map slum settlements using very ...

SINGAPORE: New measures are being rolled out in the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) to bolster investor momentum, even as companies based in Singapore have committed over S$5.5 billion ...

Prayagraj: With little resources and no a roof on his head, hard times could not deter the spirit of 22-year-old Karan, who, despite coming from the slums, worked hard to change his destiny. Studying ...

But the fanfare surrounding the notoriously fickle American president’s impending arrival in Southeast Asia has since faded, with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s apparent triumph of ...

In a landmark move for housing justice and community empowerment, Mumbai has begun talks for its first Self-Redevelopment Project under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). The initiative, led by ...

The Maharashtra cabinet on October 7 approved a cluster redevelopment scheme for slums in Mumbai, paving the way for large-scale transformation of the city’s informal settlements. The plan envisions ...

Tory MP Robert Jenrick has sparked outrage with comments describing Birmingham's Handsworth as a "slum" and "one of the worst integrated places" he'd visited, claiming he saw "no other white face." ...

In another decisions, the Cabinet approved a state-wide sewage treatment and reuse policy for 424 urban local bodies. MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Cabinet on Tuesday approved a scheme that seeks to ...

The Maharashtra Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has approved the implementation of the Slum Cluster Redevelopment Scheme under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to address ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...