This daily ritual has become all the more fraught after authorities said early this month they would use facial recognition technology in public places to spot women who didn't adhere to the new ...

The Pacific nation of Palau is kicking off a digital residency scheme for anyone wishing to become a crypto-citizen ...

Farmer P. K. Madhavan stands by one of the mahogany trees he has mortgaged to the village ‘tree bank’ in Meenangadi, India on January 5, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/K. Rajendran ...

Companies wage digital war on critical staff by closing chat rooms, threatening jobs and levelling lawsuits This is a two-part investigation on Qatar airways and its labour practices By Maya ...

Pete Howson, a senior lecturer in international development at Northumbria University in Britain, said 2022 is likely to see "stronger public opposition" to bitcoin on environmental grounds, which ...

Bakong enables even users without a bank account to make payments and transfers through a mobile app By Rina Chandran BANGKOK, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Cambodia's central bank ...

Wildfires emitted 1.76 billion tonnes of carbon globally in 2021 - an equivalent to more than double Germany's annual CO2 emissions By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Wildfires produced a ...

More than half the countries in the Asia-Pacific region have some form of data protection and privacy legislation By Rina Chandran BANGKOK, Nov 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - China's new law ...

Migrants in the Arab states sent home over $124 billion in 2017, with UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar all in the top 10 ...

MUMBAI, Oct 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investing in clean energy can help economies recover from the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as it will add more jobs than backing fossil ...

Similar startups have sprung up around the world from Namibia to the United States, utilising technology and direct-to-consumer models to help small-scale, organic farmers hold their own against ...

Young people's feelings of anger, fear and powerlessness arise less from environmental damage than from the unwillingness of adults to stop it, researchers find ...