The Asia-Pacific region has the world’s highest rate of urbanisation, while also being home to more than half the world’s 821 million undernourished people, four UN agencies said in a report released ...

International pressure is mounting on Thailand – including from the new US administration – over the fate of dozens of Uyghur ...

Anti-poverty organisation Oxfam said on Thursday that 11 people die of hunger each minute and that the number of people facing famine-like conditions around the globe has increased six times over ...

Myanmar’s army has warned aid workers not to release data showing millions are hungry. Fearing retaliation, aid groups have ...

Four other people familiar with the matter ... according to Bryony Lau, the deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch. The hunger strike has increased concern among rights activists about the ...

Global goals to tackle climate change and end hunger by 2030 are within reach if donors and developing nations help small farmers grow more climate resilient crops, access irrigation and tap into ...

"People are going hungry daily, children are malnourished, and millions are being plunged into poverty." The situation in Myanmar highlights how the global system for tackling hunger and ...