After spending the last five days with Bob Geldof, I feel that I know his opinion about everything. His forceful rhetoric - delivered at one hundred miles per an hour and sprinkled with a selection of profanities - is what first helped to make the famine in Ethiopia a global issue during the 1980...

HITSATS, Ethiopia, June 13 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has opened a new camp in northern Ethiopia to house the increasing number of Eritrean refugees entering the country. A total 776 Eritrean refugees have already been transferred to Hitsats Camp, which can house up to 20,000 refugees. "This...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Almost half a million South Sudanese have fled the fighting which began one month ago, and the majority of those still inside the country are not getting any aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday. An estimated 413,000 people have been displaced inside Sout...

The Amyotha Hluttaw passed the bill amending the Telecommunications Law as revised by the Bill Committee on Wednesday but took no action on calls to abolish the controversial section 66(d), said Speaker Mahn Win Khaing Than. The committee’s revisions included making charges brought under section ...

The Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry vowed to help some 7100 workers in Yangon Region’s 14 industrial zones to get their national registration cards (NRCs), a senior executive of the organisation said. Daw Khine Khine Nwe, associate general secretary of the federat...

More than 20 Karen lawyers from all over Burma held an initial meeting in Rangoon last week to discuss the founding of a lawyer network that would provide legal assistance to the Karen community facing legal issues related to human rights, women’s right and land disputes. The Karen lawyers’ meeti...

Yangon, 4 Nov— Myanmar Insurance plans to launch a new health insurance produce as of 1 April next year, enabling Myanmar people to get benefits from it first health insurance service in the country.Following credit guarantee insurance that Myanmar Insurance launched last July, health insurance w...

The Karen Women Empowerment Group (KWEG), a community based group in Hpa-an ran a training for villagers to help them understand how to vote and what their rights are related to elections. The three-day training workshop was held from 24 to 26 of March at the KWEG office in Hpa-an. The training w...