Early Valentine's gift for Pasay City squatters Malaya BY ASHZEL HACHERO | SQUATTER families in Pasay City will receive an early Valentine treat from the city government with the awarding of 152 land titles. | Pasay Mayor Wenceslao Trinidad said the first batch of land titles were awarded to 75 squatter families in Barangays 51 and 52 along P. Dandan St...
Housing Haiti's homeless sparks debate as rains loom The Star | PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Sitting at a table under billowing bed sheets, David Delva tries to compile a list of around 12,000 people who now live in an open field below a hillside slum that collapsed in Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake. Haitian children Gesner, 13, (L) carries his sister Gloria, 1, nex...
Bishop tells bets: Stop using the poor to gain votes Cabinet group cites need for ... Malaya | TAGBILARAN Bishop Leonardo Medroso yesterday slammed politicians who he said use the poor in their political campaigns. | He said so-called pro-poor candidates appear in every election, but the number of poor people continues to increase. | "H...
Better worker rights laws urged to tackle poverty BBC News | Laws protecting workers' rights must be improved to tackle poverty, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. | It says the number of people moving repeatedly between unemployment and work had risen by 60% since 2006. | The foundation said its r...
Free tuition for poor students in Shah Alam The Star | edward@thestar.com.my | STUDENTS in Shah Alam who are preparing for the Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR), Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) and Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) will be given the opportunity to attend free tuition classes scheduled...
Firm presents CNY gifts to the poor and elderly The Star | MUAR: Sports Toto Malaysia recently donated food hampers and gave away ang pows to about 400 elderly and poor people here in conjunction with the Chinese New Year. | The presentation was made by Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman's special offic...
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Poverty and power in one of India's poorest areas BBC News By Delnaaz Irani | India Business Report, BBC World, Meghalaya | Kran Sumer looks at least 20 years younger than his actual age. | It's not because he's had an easy life. In fact, ...
No room for poor Indian Express | Private schools have either not implemented or circumvented the government’s direction to reserve 15 per cent seats for children of underprivileged families | Most private school...
Ban calls for 'global action' on poverty and hunger The Siasat Daily | Munich, February 06: UN chief Ban Ki-moon today told an international security conference in Germany that poverty, hunger and climate change posed a major threat to humanity in t...
Poor management takes CTA to the Poorhouse Newsvine | Just days before the 2008 Summer Olympics, Richard M. Daley, Chicago's Mayor-For-Life, was in China taking test rides on Beijing's new state-of-the art subway. | With dreams of the 2016 Chicago games dancing in his head, Mayor Daley wanted to have ...
Detroit Seniors Head Up Homeless Aid Huffington Post | Bea Sacks and Muriel (Murt) Sherbow are two elderly ladies on a mission. Bea, 90, and Sherbow, 85, are mobilizing residents across Detroit to help furnish subsidized apartments for homeless veterans, The Detroit News reports. | After chatting with ...
Downtown project enlists jobless, homeless in cleanup CBC Jason Pietrzak says a new downtown cleanup program can help street people turn their lives around. (CBC) | A new initiative, called Downtown Proud, is putting formerly homeless or unemployed people to work cleaning up 30 blocks of Edmonton's downtown...
CAPITAL CULTURE: First lady tackling child obesity The Guardian | NANCY BENAC | Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — By now, it is abundantly clear that Michelle Obama loves french fries. | The first lady talks about this "guilty pleasure" all the time, trying to ward off any notion that she is a nutrition nanny even as she cajoles Americans to eat better. | Now, her conversation with the public about t...
Haiti's Homeless Need Tents, Aid Groups Say The New York Times | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - With so much of this capital left in ruins, Haitian and international officials issued an urgent call on Sunday for help putting roofs - even if only temporary ones - over the heads of the estimated hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake. | "Tents, tents, tents," said Niurka Piñeiro, a spok...
House Republican Issa Charges Obama With Lying About Tort Reform Huffington Post | President Obama's health care reform outreach to congressional Republicans got off to a bumpy start on Monday morning, when Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) blasted a statement to reporters headlined: "First Question for President Obama: Did You Lie About Moving Forward on Malpractice Reform?" | It wasn't as brazen as Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) shoutin...
