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For the last eight years Mathilde and her family have called Hong Kong home, but as the coronavirus tears through the city they are joining an exodus of foreign workers looking for an escape route. “We are leaving and we will come back to empty our house whenever that is …

Tran Thi Van, an eatery owner in Hanoi, is struggling to even pay rent after cooking gas prices skyrocketed. Managing three big woks in the kitchen at her stall in Cau Giay District last Friday, the 33-year-old says: “Each meal now only generates a few thousand dongs (VND1,000 = $0.04) …

Thailand is scrambling to encourage its people to have more babies to arrest a slumping birth rate, offering parents childcare and fertility centres, while also tapping social media influencers to showcase the joys of family life. The campaign comes as the number of births has dropped by nearly a third …