They provide night shelters, day cr ches, soup kitchens and TB clinics.

CNN: PASSAGE

"My wife and I still eat a bowl of rice, two dishes of vegetables and drink a bowl of soup every day, " says Jiang, 48.

CNN: China's Rarest Man

The pioneer in bringing peace of mind to family or neighbours is Zojirushi, Japan's biggest maker of rice cookers and electric kettles, which in Japan keep water hot all day for tea or miso soup.

ECONOMIST: The grey market

It currently operates from a Victorian terraced house offering soup and sandwiches for an hour each day to the homeless and people in need.

BBC: Tunbridge Wells Soup Bowl to close after disturbances

The move by some luxury hotel chains in greater China to ban shark fin soup ahead of the Lunar New Year was symbolic of a new day and part of a worldwide push.

FORBES: Side Lines

Like the sound of ice clattering in the cocktail shaker, or the first whiff of charcoal smoke from the grill, that first sip of cool soup is a one-way ticket away from the labors of the day.

NPR: Summer Soups: A Cool Quartet

He received three unpalatable meals a day usually a sandwich of bread and cheese, or cold rice with canned vegetables, or soup.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole

Their list of supplies is also exhaustive, with support sledges carrying 7, 300 tea bags, 4, 400 packets of soup, 230 kilograms of chocolate and 165 rolls of toilet paper (12 sheets per man, per day).

CNN: Veteran explorer sets off on 'The Coldest Journey'