Mama, come home: Can the Philippines bring back its migrant workers?
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has promised better jobs at home on the backs of foreign investments and initiatives to ease the reintegration for returning Filipino workers.
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South Korea’s generational happiness gap
The writer said the gap leaves a dilemma: improving the pension system so that it allows retirees to maintain a middle-class lifestyle, but that move increases the financial…
Books will remain integral to human existence
Founding chairman and director of ChulaChuli Theatre Illam, Chetan Angthupo, believes that investing in existing community, social organisation, or theatre libraries would be more…
Residents scream for help as hundreds of pet mice dumped in their soi
Officials believe the mice may have been dumped by a farm that could not sell them.
Pope Francis expected to visit Singapore as part of Asia-Pacific tour in September: Catholic media
The last papal visit was almost 40 years ago, when the late Pope John Paul II drew thousands of Roman Catholics during a brief stopover in 1986.
Japan-assisted training, aid hope to transform lives of ex-Moro rebels in the Philippines
Apart from matching their livelihood needs, the project also aims to provide decommissioned combatants with the right information so that they have a better understanding of the…
Lacquerware artisans in quake-hit Wajima get a fresh start with donated tools
Just after the Jan. 1 earthquake, Sakai posted on social media asking for donations of lacquerware tools. People from all over Japan offered hundreds of tools in response to his…
AI enables digital reunion of organ donor and family
After obtaining the consent of the deceased family members, technicians collected a large amount of audio and video recordings that they used to create the AI video.
Thai youth UN climate leader gives lessons in female empowerment
Aminta Permpoonwiwat represented Thailand at the UN in 2021 and 2022, helping young colleagues from around the world draft a youth manifesto that was presented to world leaders at…
Ageing in Bangladesh: Are we ready for more social spending?
The rising share of the population aged over 65 has economic, social, and health consequences and also brings up the question about whether the low middle-income country is…