After a long wait, 401 families from Kuala Muda in Penang who lost their homes to the Dec 24, 2004 tsunami are now proud owners of new bungalows. The houses built by Syarikat Perumahan Negara Bhd (SPNB) with funding from the Federal
THE DEPTH of the global food crisis is best expressed by what the poor are eating. In Burundi, it is farine noir, a mixture of black flour and moldy cassava. In Somalia, a thin gruel made from mashed thorn-tree branches called jerrin.
Throughout the conflict zones of Africa, among women worn out by violence and wars in which they've had no voice, no role to play but that of target, and who now have no desire but to feed their surviving children, some women have picked themselves up...
Alima Traore doesn't remember when part of her genitals was removed as a young child in her native Mali. But even at 29, she still lives with the consequences.
There's the pain, the fear of future medical problems...
Members of a charity group threatened with arrest while trying to feed homeless people at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point have filed a federal lawsuit against state parks officials, claiming interference with their constitutional rights.
Savage actions that would put a soccer hooligan to shame were among the ways a judge described the crimes of two Toronto army reservists he sentenced to 10 years for the beating death of a homeless man. "They used him as a... punching bag..."
TORONTO - Paul Croutch was killed by two Canadian Forces reservists in a "sadistic and senseless" attack because he was a homeless person, an Ontario Superior Court judge concluded yesterday.
They called her "Genie" -- a pseudonym to protect her privacy -- because since infancy her life had been bottled up in the horrors she experienced in one dimly lit room.
She is awesome! I was homeless for 2.5 years and my friends abandoned me. Few offered any help, even though i had helped many prior to my misfortune. This woman gets the message.
