Sat, June 25, 2022
Published: May 25, 2022
Compelled to cut down on essential items and dip into their depleting savings, India’s elderly population is facing increasingly abrasive inflation as it becomes a battle for survival.
Published: May 16, 2022
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said on Saturday that he will gradually turn around the difficult situation faced by the population and ensure that people can feed themselves three times a day.
Published: Mar 16, 2022
Nine out of 10 Ukrainians could be plunged into poverty if the war drags on over the next year, wiping out two decades of economic gains, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) said on Wednesday (March 16).
Published: Mar 03, 2022
About 30 per cent of the Thai population — or over 20 million people — are suffering from obesity, and the problem is worsening in children and teenagers, an expert warned on Thursday.
Published: Feb 11, 2022
Hundreds of wild macaques in Phetchaburi province have been sterilised in a bid to curb the expanding population and prevent possible spread of diseases to locals.
Published: Jan 28, 2022
Seoul is likely to see its population, sink below 9.5 million during the first half of 2022. This suggests that government policies to promote marriages and births have lacked efficacy.
Published: Jan 14, 2022
Some 97.8% of the adult population in the country, or 22,893,234 individuals, have completed their Covid-19 vaccination.
Published: Oct 31, 2021
Up to 35 percent of Myanmar’s population completed COVID-19 vaccination and more doses of COVID-19 are needed to buy at the end of this year to reach 50 percent of COVID-19 coverage in Myanmar’s population according to a 13th coordination meeting on COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment committee held at the Bayint Naung hall in Nay Pyi Taw.
Published: Oct 26, 2021
Afghanistan is on the brink of a starvation crisis, with more than half its population - some 22.8 million people - projected to face acute food insecurity this winter, according to a study co-led by the United Nations World Food Program and its Food and Agriculture Organization.
Published: Oct 01, 2021
About nine months after the arrival of covid-19 shots, dozens of countries have yet to vaccinate 10% of their populations, a milestone seen as crucial in narrowing a glaring gap in access.
Published: Sep 20, 2021
For years, the Netherlands has held the world title for having the tallest people on the planet. But new data from the office for national statistics suggests that the height of the average Dutch person is shrinking. And scientists are puzzled as to why.
Published: Aug 26, 2021
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga expanded a state of emergency to eight more areas and cover more than 70% of the population as a delta-variant fueled surge sends Covid-19 cases to records and puts strains on the medical system.