Climate change is exacerbating the phenomenon, which occurs when intense rain hits a very small area, especially in mountainous areas.

SEOUL: South Korea's parliament expanded protection for subcontracted workers on Sunday (Aug 24) by passing new union rules, shrugging off concerns by businesses that they might undermine competitiveness and worsen labour relations.

Neha Jain, founder, ZeroCircle; Priya Shah, General Partner, Theia Ventures; and Farwa Aamer, Director, South Asia Initiatives, Asia Society Policy Institute, discuss the current state of the climate funding ecosystem across South Asia,

These four artists are turning to centuries-old stories of migration to expand contemporary understandings of race, ethnicity and origin.

T hE participation rate of women in the labour markets of South Asia is in general woefully low. The region’s garment factories, however, are exceptions. In Bangladesh and Sri Lanka around two-thirds of those behind the sewing machines are women.

In this first session of Asia Society India's Wide World: Climate in South Asia, Harjeet Singh, founding director, Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, Kasia Paprocki, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environment,

Almost 400 people have died in Pakistan after flash floods brought destruction throughout the country’s north.

Heavy rainfall across South Asia this summer has taken hundreds of lives. Experts say it's a combination of climate change, poor infrastructure and industrialization.

Join us for a Global Voices Insights in English with prominent experts and journalists from Nepal, Bangladesh, and China to find out how Global Voices’ co-writing journalistic fellowship model is bringing nuance to this complex topic.

The Capital to Risk-Weighted Asset Ratio (CRAR), the main measure of how much cushion banks hold against risky assets, fell to just 3.08 percent at the end of 2024, according to Bangladesh Bank's latest Financial Stability Report.

Air Liquide has signed a binding deal to buy South Korea’s DIG Airgas from Macquarie Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Fund 2, valuing it at 2.85 billion euros ($3.3 billion), the French industrial gases group said on Friday.

The PFA's Asian Inclusion Mentoring Scheme is at the end of its five-year plan and co-ordinator Riz Rehman has spoken about how they're looking to change the game for South Asians