In Asia's largest slum, free new digs are scorned

via Flavourpill "Reishma Rathore lives in a dilapidated one-room shanty in Dharavi slum, Mumbai (formerly Bombay), a stinking sea of corrugated iron shanties and rubbish. Last week, she was offered a spanking new...

The pull of Rio's shanty towns

"Rio de Janeiro's numerous slums, or favelas, are notorious for being full of drugs, crime and guns. But, a growing number of favela dwellers are trying to change that image, wooing foreigners with their own style of hospitality. The BBC's Emma Joseph reports. Louis Bento...

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