Asia needs millions more long-term care workers to look after its ageing population. Fuelled by increasing life expectancy and falling total fertility rates, the number of people in Asia aged 60 or over will reach 1.3 billion by 2050.

They are the world’s forgotten poor, invisible to the financial markets, barely noticed because, understandably, the focus is on Ukraine, but nearly 800 million of the world’s poorest people are about to be trapped by an onrushing food crisis caused by soaring prices, fuelled by shortages and exacer...

The Covid-19 pandemic has continued to evolve and mutate along with its underlying virus, frustrating efforts to project its course. Yet one early prediction has come true. Even as highly effective vaccines and therapeutics have come to market in record time, they have been extremely slow to reach t...