Run for Lebanon:’ Participants from 104 countries race in Beirut. There were also Syrian refugee children, who participated in the 5-kilometer race in the marathon. The Syrian conflict did not only affect the security situation within Lebanon's borders but the country saw a huge influx of Syrian ref...

ABUJA, Nigeria — More than 100 people were killed Sunday evening in northern Nigeria in a quick succession of what appeared to be carefully coordinated bombings by Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group. The attacks, near the airport in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, were the deadliest ...

Boko Haram launched its first major attack in Niger on Friday, triggering a forceful response from regional troops who claimed to have killed more than a hundred of the Islamists. The clashes in Bosso and Diffa, along the border with Nigeria, marked yet another expansion of violence attributed to...

Japan plans to provide 100 billion yen ($995 million) in loans to Myanmar for infrastructure development, a Japanese government source said Friday, the first such offer by Tokyo since the longtime opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi took office in March. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to ma...

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$100 million credit to support Myanmar in improving the access of families and small and medium-sized businesses to financial services. Myanmar’s Financial Sector Development Project aims to promote the development of a sound and st...

ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်စ့တၢး ပၢဆှၢတၢ်ကမံးတံာ်ပှၤနဲၣ်တၢ် တနံၤအံၤအၢၣ်လီၤတူၢ်လိာ်၀ဲ ကဟ့ၣ်လိၢ်စ့ US$100 ကကွဲၢ် လၢကဆီၣ်ထွဲ ကီၢ်ပယီၤဟံၣ်ဖိဃီဖိဒီးပနံာ်တၢ်မၤလၢအဆံးဒီး ဒိၣ်ဖဲြကၢးဖဲဘၣ်တဖၣ် ကဒိးန့ၢ်စ့တၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲလၢကစး ထီၣ် ဒီးအူတရံးပနံာ်တၢ် မၤ ကသ့အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကီၢ်ပယီၤ ကျိၣ်စ့သနၢၣ်တၢ်လဲၤထီၣ်လဲၤထီတၢ်တိာ် ကျဲၤ Myanma...