Today’s slums are developing incrementally, constructed by the people who live there, with little regulation — a form of urbanism that local officials often malign. But just a few decades ago, Tokyo, ...

Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan go missing on purpose to get a second shot at life. The South China Morning Post spoke to two men who have disappeared from their old lives. "I was ...

In the past two years, the number of people living in slums worldwide has grown by 50 million. That's according to the United Nations Habitat Agency. The agency presented its findings at its annual ...