Sure, the pills may be expired — or fake. But customers flock to the illicit market anyway, saying they have no other choice.

The Limbu community’s six-year battle against the 3 billion Nepali rupee (US$21.8 million) Pathibhara cable car project, ...

Residents spend as much as 20% of their income on water, yet what comes from their taps is green, dirty and undrinkable. Now, ...

Nine of 10 people needing transplants never find a donor. Updated laws increase the donor pool by allowing transplants from ...

Unscrupulous agencies peddle work to rural job-seekers, then disappear. This leaves migrants without protections — and, in ...

Historically, the US Agency for International Development has pumped at least US$4 billion annually into children’s programming worldwide. In 2024 alone, Zimbabwe received more than US$12 million for ...

Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to ...