A new clinic that will provide free primary health care to villagers in Kawkareik Township is at its final construction stage and will soon be ready to receive patients. The clinic is being built in Nan Shwe Mone village, Kawkareik Township under the initiative of the Karen National Union, will g...

By Crispin Dembassa-Kette and Tom Miles BANGUI/GENEVA May 5 (Reuters) - Armed factions in Central African Republic agreed on Tuesday to free all child soldiers and other children used as sex slaves or menial workers, boosting U.N.-driven efforts at national reconciliation after two years of turmo...

Six months ago refugees began fleeing Mali to Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso. Today, political instability in Bamako and insecurity in northern Mali continue to trigger the flight of thousands of refugees to neighbouring countries and other parts of Mali. Over 365,000 people are estimated to hav...

Thailand is expected to sign a visa-exemption agreement with Myanmar next month during a visit by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a Myanmar Foreign Ministry official said. 'We will sign an agreement once the Thai government has approved it. I don't know exactly when we will be able to sign but ...

The flow of refugees and migrants from the Horn of Africa across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea towards Yemen continues to exceed previous records. In the first seven of 2012, more than 63,800 people made this perilous journey compared to 48,700 during the same period last year - a 30 per cent inc...

DEAF persons in Kayah State received free medical treatment under a Myanmar- Thailand joint programme titled “Ear Surgery Mobile Unit”, according to a source from the Information and Public Relations Department. The programme, jointly organized by the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar and ...

Eleven sailors held hostage by Somali pirates for more than three years have arrived safely in Kenya, mediators who helped secure their freedom said. The 11 men - from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Iran - were crew of the Malaysian-owned cargo vessel MV Albedo, which was hijacked 1,500km of...

Primary and middle schools registering new students for the 2014-2015 school year will no longer request school fees according to the Ministry of Education. Under instruction from the ministry, all basic schools will no longer request school fees, nor sell exercise books, notebooks, and student’s g...

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday criticised Nigerian and world leaders for not doing enough to help free 219 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants. “In my opinion, Nigerian leaders and the international community have not done enough to help you,” she said in a l...