Internally displaced persons (IDPs) cannot return home yet because it is not yet safe, Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) said yesterday. He said although most towns have been recaptured from insurgents in the Northeast, security threats still remained. The government, he sa...

At least eight people have been killed after female suicide bombers attacked two camps hosting internally displaced people (IDP) in Maiduguri, northeastern Nigeria, a civilian self-defence group said. It was the first major attack on a displaced persons camp in the city which is the birthplace of...

COMPENSATION of nearly Ks2 billion were paid by authorities to affected farmers, who lost land, crops and buildings as a result of the Myanmar-Thailand friendship bridge project. The construction of the friendship bridge No.2 in Myawady, a border town in Kayin State, is nearly finished, said U Th...

Myanmar is expected to hold a by-election in early 2017, said Aung Myint, a member of the Union Election Commission (UEC). He spoke in response to a question posed by MP Sai Tun Aung from Shan State Constituency-2 in the Upper House on August 22. The MP asked whether there is a plan to hold an el...

As a result of the situation in Venezuela, the number of asylum applications by Venezuelan citizens worldwide has increased exponentially, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced on 8 March. Since 2014, over 414,000 asylum claims have been lodged by Venezuelans worldwide, nearly 60 percent of them (...

Myanmar will launch an insurance policy covering livestock insurance for the first time in 30 years. “We estimate livestock insurance will be launched by year-end,” Daw Sandar Oo, managing director of Myanma Insurance, told The Myanmar Times. State-owned Myanma Insurance, the Department of Lives...