YANGON — A local NGO has launched a new app aiming to give Myanmar’s public greater accountability over its elected representatives. The Open Hluttaw app, developed by Myanma Fifth Estate with funding from the Dutch embassy, provides biographies of Union lawmakers, along with their committee res...

UNHCR is distributing money by mobile phone to 6,000 vulnerable families uprooted by conflict and already facing a deadly Ebola outbreak in DRC’s North Kivu province.

In a bid to ensure the better health coverage in rural areas, the Ministry of Health and Sports plans to form mobile medical teams. According to the 2014 Nationwide Census, the average life expectancy is 66.8 years. As a long-term benefit, the ministry aims to promote the average life expectancy ...