SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- South Korea ranked ninth in terms of income disparity in 2010 among the 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Tuesday. South Korea's top 10 percent in the income bracket held an average income 10.5 times higher than that of the lowest 10 percent in 2010, above the OECD members' average of 9.4 times, according to the OECD report. The data are the latest available for comparison and high numbers indicate more serious income disparity.

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused attention on the textile industry's dismal pay and hazardous working conditions. A new minimum wage board will issue recommendations for pay raises within three months, Textiles Minister Abdul Latif Siddiky said Sunday. The Cabinet will then decide whether to accept those proposals. The wage board will include representatives of factory owners, workers and the government, he said.

The Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) livelihood intervention did not only answer their clamor for additional income.

The income gap between the richest and poorest people in Spain has widened by 30 percent since 2006 due to the country's sharp economic downturn, the Spanish branch of Catholic charity Caritas said Wednesday. Falling salaries, government cuts to social benefits and high unemployment --- currently at a record 26 percent --- are behind the "unprecedented rise in income inequality" which is among the highest in the European Union, the charity said in a new report.