HEALTH INSIGHT: THE BEST FOODS TO EAT FOR A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP
UK dietician SOPHIE MEDLIN, in an article first published on The Conversation, recommends her top foods for a peaceful sleep…
Hunger stalks Asia’s booming cities – UN agencies
Thomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia’s rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, and will remain so without “inclusive, sustainable and nutrition-sensitive” urban planning, United Nations officials said on Friday. The Asia-Pacific region has the world’s highest rate of urbanisation, while also being home to more than half the world’s 821 […]
Asian MPs urge halt to Rohingya repatriation plan amid safety fears
Thomson Reuters Foundation Myanmar is not safe enough for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh, said Asian parliamentarians on Friday, urging both governments to halt plans for repatriation scheduled to begin this month. More than 700,000 Rohingya people crossed into Bangladesh in the four months after deadly attacks by […]
CYCLING: DOCKLESS BIKES – GREEN REVOLUTION OR PUBLIC “PARASITE”?
SONIA ELKS, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the rise – and, in some cases, fall – of public (and dockless) bike sharing schemes around the world…